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Re: Best method of drilling a wall plate?




Hi Tim

> You mean you grind off part of the twist at the tip of a standard HSS
> drill ?
> Doesn't that remove part of the cutting edge ?

Yep thats correct ,so the top looks like this ....... --/\--......

They normally modify drills like this to drill sheet metal.........

HTH
Frank.....try it ,it works ;-)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Best method of drilling a wall plate?


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> Thanks Frank,
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> You mean you grind off part of the twist at the tip of a standard HSS
> drill ?
> Doesn't that remove part of the cutting edge ?
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> Tim.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Mc Alinden
> >
> > Tim
> >         Mod one of your drills as per my suggestion and try
> > it.....works a lot better ( i think)
> >
> > Frank
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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