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I feel this deeply. I am of the opinion that one who has never used a power tool should ever use a power tool for the first time unsupervised. I say this this as a man who volunteers helping high school students build robots. Accidents happen, and you don't know what you don't know.
Delay tactics.
"Which bit are you planning on using? Send a photo of it"
"That's not a good bit for that"
For many years I used to keep my sawzall at a buddies house. Because my Wife decided-- not once-- but twice to cut down the couch we had at the time with the sawzall. The first time she wanted a "small sectional" in her words. The second time she just wanted 2 smaller couches. At the time we were dirt poor and we couldn't afford to be replacing a couch just 'because'.
I eventually had to enforce a 'no touch my tools' rule and you don't fix ANYTHING rule to save my sanity and life.
Embrace that shit. Help her enroll in a carpentry class. You can probably find one cheap or free in your closest city. The will to act is harder to come by than the skills to do it right.
First off: I totally agree, teach people these skills.
Secondly: There are however people who should never be trusted with anything more destructive than your average spoon.
Only a few sentences on Lemmy from one person's pov but that rings loudly of a mental disorder that requires professional intervention. IANAD. But if my SO decided to sawzall a piece of our furniture on a whim my reaction would be, "You're out of your fuckin' mind."
Also "I'm not helping pay to replace that, this just became entirely your problem"
There's a painting of Hobbiton that has been sat in my living room for two years because I dare not hang it up for fear of doing it wrong. Last time I tried to hang anything up (a clock in that case) the plaster just came off the wall around it and I had to pay to get it fixed. That was with just a hammer and a hook! I'm not getting a drill!
If it's a plaster wall / dry wall don't use the masonry anchors mentioned by the other person lol.
Just go to a hardware store and ask for a 'hollow wall anchor'. My favourite type is wall mates. Watch a youtube video on how to put them up with any cheap screwdriver!
(If it matters I use this stuff daily in my job)
My wife knows how to load the chuck, but she's definitely gonna break a bit
My wife knows how to use, and has handled most of my tools, including power tools .... she just doesn't like any of them.
To be fair, mine used to be an avid power tool user, but the strokes changed that. Intelligence + brain damage can lead to some interesting results.
If you need to be instructed in how to set up a tool you are unlikely to use said tool correctly or well. It is important to be aware of your actual skills when engaged in things like home or car repair.
Fuck correctly or well, they're much less likely to use it SAFELY! Drills in particular love to grab long hair.
I've used tools before that I knew how to use, but this particular model had a weird latch or something.
It's entirely plausible someone who is totally capable of drilling a hole to hang a picture might have never needed to use a drill with a chuck key.
Maybe. Who knows.
If you don’t know how to use a chuck key Im going to presume you need supervision while drilling.
I honestly wouldn't. If you've only used a drill with a keyless chuck knowing you need to put a little knobbed gear on a stick into a hole and twist it to change bits is not what a lot of people would expect.
You're probably not getting a job in construction, but if you're looking to put up a coat rack or something you're fine.
Putting a bit into a drill is not something that can be adequately learned by talking, IMO.
You need to see someone do it at least once before you can actually understand what you're trying to do.
I mean. It's not that complicated of a thing. You can figure it out by playing with it a little. The real concern is the potential damage she will cause doing whatever it is she is planning on doing with the drill after she gets the bit in.
This is dumb. Just explain in a phonecall and/or tell them to look it up on YouTube.
Getting that bit in that drill will just be the beginning of his problems. If she doesn't have enough knowledge to even get that far then there's no telling what she intends to do or the damage she may cause. Or may have already done before she thought to ask.