😅😂🤣 I lifted it up before it drilled through, that's why the video is cut off right there. But good idea, put some scrap wood under there or do the drilling in the garage!
I finally tried it. I cannot thread mine by hand. I need to hold it with vice grips. Very tight. But it works and I have no issue hand tightening it into the rail.
This is similar to my solution. I used a heat source (torch), toilet bolt and wing nut. After drilling the hole so the bolt moves, insert from the bottom and put wing nut on the end. Using a torch, heat up wing nut and pull into pvc. first attempt will start the melting where wing nut will seat. Push out, reheat and pull to bottom. If done right, wing nut is warm enough to melt a home in the bottom of the pvc. Done this w ABS also. Takes about 5 mins and some time to cool. Hand protection reequired.
Great Idea. I made some vertical rod holders for my rear well area and used the epoxy method. It has worked great and held strong for several years now but this is a lot easier and I don't have anything that would require more strength than what this does. Maybe if I was using a rod holder for trolling where a big fish could put some real pressure on the rod, I might go stronger but I don't need that now. You have given me several ideas to fixes I have been trying to do!! Thanks!!
If you wanna real clean, reliable hole, buy a 1/4-20 tap kit that comes with the correct drillbit and a 1/4-20 tap. Then you don't need to rely on heat to get it right. $6-10 on Amazon for the kit.
Some of them have break off points were you can grab them with a vice or vice grips and break them off shorter. I've also noticed you can buy kayak track bolts on Amazon.
@@Backlashed we built a small cold frame greenhouse out of schedule 40 pvc and a year later the pipes were so brittle a mild thunderstorm caused them to shatter in sharp fragments. You could just snap the pieces with very little pressure. Gray electrical PVC and the black drain PVC are more stable than the white.
Very good! Two suggestions: first, if you quickly cool it, you run less risk of over-melting the plastic and will get tighter threads. Second, use a sacrificial drill block. Dude! Do you realize the painful death your wife would inflict if you drilled into that nice countertop while making a fishing tool?
