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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2013, 10:03:20 PM »
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Please, like 1 drill is EVER enough.


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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2013, 10:25:10 PM »
Quote from: Brad Young on December 10, 2013, 09:38:08 PM
I've got 4,876 guidebooks (although a few are duplicates of each other).

this made me laugh
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2013, 10:25:59 PM »
Quote from: cobbledik on December 10, 2013, 09:06:23 PM
Please, like 1 drill is EVER enough.

I own 3 portaledges, 9 ropes, 6 Helmets, 3 wall hammers, 7 new pairs of fingerless wall gloves, 20+ different types of belay devices, 7 adjustable daisies, 4 nonadjustable daisies, 11 harnesses, and don't even ask about shoes, both climbing and approach.

oh, and 2 drills.

why do I say all this? I realize that I had intentions to make a joke at first, but then I just started showing off, and then I realized I was crying out for an intervention... but not the kind of intervention where you guys take my gear. Big bag of nope, that. I should probably block ebay from my laptop and phone though.

Intervention, I think we are jealous
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2013, 04:47:41 AM »
Stay away from my preciousnesses!!!  >:(
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2013, 07:52:25 AM »
Every object has a life. Choose those objects wisely.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2013, 08:50:51 AM »
What is the copper for?
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2013, 11:37:46 AM »
Quote from: mungeclimber on December 11, 2013, 08:50:51 AM
What is the copper for?

useless Extra weight or a big wall enema perhaps?
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #27 on: December 11, 2013, 04:56:53 PM »
Quote from: mungeclimber on December 11, 2013, 08:50:51 AM
What is the copper for?

It's for accuracy.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #28 on: December 11, 2013, 05:48:39 PM »
in a drilled hole?
/me scratches head in bewilderment
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #29 on: December 11, 2013, 08:25:55 PM »
Just a thought. I have those every once in a while...
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #30 on: December 12, 2013, 11:57:13 AM »
Quote from: mungeclimber on December 11, 2013, 08:50:51 AM
What is the copper for?

This is how the package arrived. 2 bits and a blow tube!
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #31 on: December 12, 2013, 12:13:14 PM »
So how much is this thing and where is the ordering info? - I see nothing on the pdf and an online search as well as his website danielmerrick.com brings nada unless you want to hire him as an expert witness.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #32 on: December 12, 2013, 02:26:20 PM »
he will testify that you need one.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2013, 10:33:20 AM »
The Bayonet was a hit! I modified the handle with a bicycle grip, but may still need some tweaking. Clink heroically got us off the ground and started a bolt hole with a 2 finger pinch. Seems to be very efficient at making holes.  Maybe too aggressive, in that if you hit hard it was easy to bind the bit.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2013, 02:47:52 PM »
Nobody's better than Clink.
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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2013, 06:23:05 PM »
Quote from: waldo on December 23, 2013, 02:47:52 PM
Nobody's better than Clink.

He seems to have inherited the stance-bolting legacy: Higgins - Holmgren - Clink.

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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2013, 07:49:45 PM »
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Holmgren and I did use short bits back in the day.  He had a very tiny one for desperate stances.  He could hold on with two or three fingers and still grip the drill.  It went slowly. 

That be cheating....and makes all the difference. 

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Re: The Merrick Bayonet
« Reply #37 on: May 07, 2014, 02:14:06 PM »
Quote from: Atomizer on December 09, 2013, 07:16:35 PM
Looks pretty cool. But then you can't used sawed off shorter bits. Does anyone make SDS 3/8" bits which are shorter for starting holes?
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