How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face

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How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face
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Instructables has a good thing going with their regular “theme” contests. They just finished up with paracord; now they’re starting in on coffee cups. Reminds me of the “MacGyver Challenge” that ReadyMade magazine used to run back before their facelift. Shown above is user bertus52x11‘s simple hack for catching the plaster that would otherwise fall everywhere when you drill into the ceiling.

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