Useful how-to advice, such as drilling a hole in a ceramic pot without shattering it.

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Along with others, he began drilling a 2, 000-foot hole into the ground, working three- or four-hour -- three or four days at a time without any sleep.

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Along with others, he began drilling a 2, 000-foot hole into the ground, working three or four hour -- three or four days at a time without any sleep.

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It is currently drilling a 17.5-inch diameter hole -- smaller than the 28 inches required to rescue the miners -- in an effort to realign after veering off course over the weekend.

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The Plan A drill -- a mining drill -- reached 148 meters (486 feet), but the hole it was drilling would still need to be widened to 70 centimeters (27.5 inches) to accommodate the rescue capsule.

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Davy Jones was so eager to cough up its bounty from a massive high-quality reservoir 200 feet thick that McMoran several months ago had to control the flow by filling the hole heavy drilling mud.

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