Drilling
Drilling square holes
I’ll start by clarifying that I don’t actually have a need to make square holes at the moment but I am facinated by these techniques. The maker of the above video Jacques Maurel also wrote an article for Model Engineer
Posted in: Drilling
Tags: broaching, reaming, square holes
Non-circular holes
Over the weekend, I tried to drill the half crescent shaped holes in the arms of my knurling tool. The original idea had to be to have an 8mm hole but when I held it up against the metal it
Posted in: Drilling, Knurling Tool
Drilling Tips
I had to drill some steel plate yesterday and even though I was using a vice and pillar drill (drillpress) the drill started to wander as it was a little bendy. This happened twice, once on a through hole and
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Tags: centre Drill, Tips
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
