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Bolting Down the Posts (Drilling Concrete)

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Installing My BendPak XPR-10AS Two Post Lift From Summit Racing! Is It Worth Doing It Yourself?

What happens here

Using a hammer drill with a large bit, drill holes into the concrete floor through the pre-drilled holes in the base plates of the lift posts. The concrete slab's thickness is measured (4.75 inches) and confirmed to meet the manufacturer's minimum requirement of 4.25 inches, ensuring a secure anchor. The presenter points out that the drilling of these holes allows the insertion of anchor bolts that will hold the lift securely.

Goal: Securely anchor the lift posts to the concrete floor.

Tools and materials

  • Hammer Drill Milwaukee — Drilling holes in concrete
  • Hearing Protection — Ear protection during drilling
  • Large Drill Bit — Drilling anchor holes in concrete
  • Safety Glasses — Eye protection during drilling
  • Tape Measure — Measuring concrete slab thickness

What they say

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let's go find a big hammer and bang some stuff it's moving just like yeah slowly you're almost there all right now you're on it this way we just need to bang it this way the banging worked split a couple pieces of wood but you know we kind of lost our chalk line here but this runs right into the little itty bitty groove right there and i kind of went around the outside of the chalk line with the sharpie before it's in case this happened we were right on the money there too just i mean if we're splitting hairs it could go over like a sharpie's thickness to the left but i don't think it really matters not that critical yeah it'll have that much movement once all the studs are in any way yeah how do you know when it got the whole way through or do you even go the whole way through well you don't typically necessarily want to go the whole way through it's kind of hard to believe that slab's only like four to five inches thick it's not very thick so that anchor i can kind of judge it by seeing it from here like i mean we're getting close so probably another inch or so that way i can bury uh a lot of time man you can take do you have any electrical

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