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Not an impact drill, a hammer drill.
An impact driver would impart rotational shocks, which is bad enough. A hammer drill imparts straight-ahead shocks into the drill hole, which if we're talking shock to the cabinet holding spinning hard drives would be murder on them. These are typically used to drill through things like multiple feet/cm of concrete. Watch the drill bit in this animation punch into the hole and back out with the hammer action. It happens much faster in real life of course, probably 5-10 times a second I'd guess
This is apparently the type of drill this guys used.
I am pretty marveled by such sophisticated mechanics being sold for 200 bucks or sometimes less.
So what you're saying is that it's readily available to any admin.
Pretty sure a simple metal rod picked up for free from the nearest junkyard does the trick too.
It hits different you know? Doesn't have the same impact...
That would take a year for some people to earn, before expenses. Check your privilege.
Image is a static image btw
Its an animated gif. Are you looking at it through an app? I know some don't support animated gifs. Try viewing this lemmy post in a browser.
It works in Voyager on Android if I tap the image, but it's static in the thread.
It's working in Sync for Lemmy (moving right in the thread)