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Welcome to the DIY Cat Enclosure Tutorial - Part 2
So, in this part I'm going to show you how to attach your conduit to a brick wall
and also a few helpful hints and solutions to problems you might come up against
So for this part we have the saddles. That's these ones here.
And I've got a piece of conduit here which I'm just going to use, we'll just pretend
that that is the side of the cat enclosure with the chicken wire coming off it.
So, if we mark out our spot. You can see there I've already done that from a previous time.
So, this is for a slightly different project, but the same principles apply.
Just to show you the drill bit. It is this one.
So, that is our masonry drill bit.
That's the one to use.
Make sure you've got your hammer drill set up properly.
That's the normal drill setting, we don't want that. So, we've got it set to
"hammer" so that this will move back and forth and push its way through the brick as it's spinning.
Ok, so let's drill.
Ok, so when we actually knock this in, you'll notice there is a bevelled edge here.
That edge there is the one that goes in to the brick. The other edge is just flat.
So, make sure we go this end in.
And then we're just going to use a standard
Philips screwdriver and a self tapping screw.
You can do this with a battery drill, but
I've found better results if you do it by hand otherwise it's too easy to end up going
through, going too far and then you could pull the rawl plug out.
Then there we go, that's it.
So another little trick that I've picked up
is that, with these, you can actually bend them so that they give you a different way
of connecting the conduit. So, normally if it's like that, my only option is to go pretty
much straight in like that, either vertically or horizontally.
But what I can do is actually change the shape of that so that this will now hook around
and be able to secure it to the top and past the brick.
So, I'll show you how to do that. Basically just put it like that on a piece
of wood or something. Give it a hammer.
The shape is now like that.
And then you can hook it on and you can mount it like that
so it is nice and clean edging. And that way from the other side, it grabs on to it nicely.
So the other situation you might get is that you've got one of these, maybe you're down
to your last one and you've drilled a hole and you knock it only part way in because
the hole's not deep enough. So, it might be worth doing the following tip
So, I'll drill a hole that's too short on purpose...
I think that's too short.
And again, as usual, we make sure that the chamfered edge, the one with the bevel on
it, goes in first.
No matter how much I keep knocking,
it's not going to go that last little bit. So, there's a little trick that I learnt.
Get your knife.
Basically just slice the top off it. You wouldn't always want to do that. Sometimes it wouldn't
be appropriate. But, it's just a little tip that you can use
if you need to. One thing with these: I have found that if
they have been in the sun and they get really hot, they bend too much, and make sure you
keep them fairly cool, as cool as you can because when they start bending, they're really
hard to knock in. So, that's just another little tip that I've
picked up along the way.
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