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Drill Holes for Wiring

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What happens here

Identify the existing knockouts on the side of the electrical panel box where the new wires will enter. Use a flathead screwdriver to punch out the desired knockout, then use pliers to bend and remove the metal piece. Next, using a hole saw (or spade bit for smaller wires), drill a hole through the nearest wooden wall stud to align with the knockout on the panel. This creates a path for the new 10 gauge wires.

Goal: Create pathways for new electrical wires from the panel to the future outlet locations.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill — Operating the hole saw or spade bit
  • Flathead Screwdriver — Punching out electrical panel knockouts
  • Hole Saw — Drilling through the wooden wall stud
  • Pliers — Bending and removing electrical panel knockouts

What they say

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start throwing in the wires. All right. So, we got that insulation cut out and dropped down. Now, there's a 2x4 in the way. We'll have to take a hole of that. But to get into the box, there's these knockouts. Basically, if you take a flathead screwdriver, you can push those in and peel them out, bend them out, whatever you got to do, get a pliers in there. Um, and then take a spade bit or hole saw like I did, and cut through that 2x4 to get your wires in there. If you have a little bit bigger of a wire, like the runs coming into a home, you'll have to get they call like a knockout tool and basically you can put it in the box and you press the trigger and it'll or pump it, whatever you have, automatic or manual, and it'll actually punch a bigger hole than what you need. I think like I need like a 3 and 1/2 inch when I did the electrical panel on my house um to run my service cables from the pole in. Um, but for this application, it's just two 10 gauge wires. We can do it by hand. So, yeah.

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