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    Replacing broken irrigation sprayer with glass drill

    After prepping my veggy bed for the new season I found quite a few sprayers had broken off.
    In the past I had one or 2 and these I simply used a soldering iron to seal the hole and drill a new hole and install a new sprayer.

    Replacing broken irrigation sprayer with glass drill-broken-sprayer.jpg

    I do not have that size "Easy-Out" hole is about 2mm.

    I took a chance to use a 3mm glass/tile drill and placing just enough pressure on it not allow it to slip managed by using my battery drill in reverce to remove all of them successfully

    Replacing broken irrigation sprayer with glass drill-glass-drill.jpg Replacing broken irrigation sprayer with glass drill-removing-broken-part.jpg


    And a new sprayer installed in the same hole.

    Replacing broken irrigation sprayer with glass drill-new-sprayer-installed.jpg

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    Those Dewalt glass drill bits are handy - they also do a good job of making holes in (some) hardened metals.

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