[sdiy] Hunk o metal

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Speth, John at 04/02/11 11:49...
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> As for drilling, I'd love to hear the answer from experienced 
 > builders.  I'm about to drill a panel with some 30 holes
 > and I don't to screw it up.

Biggest issue would probably be alignment. I'm *not* a metalworking 
guru, but I'd scribe up a grid using a decent square, double-check the 
measurements and then centrepunch all the drill points first.

Ideally, if your equipment is big enough, get the panel onto an X-Y 
table/vice or clamped to something that can fit in one so you can feed 
along a row of holes, rather than positioning by hand - which always 
ends up with things a bit out of kilter for me.

Life is hard, for those of us without CNC mills ;-)

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Matthew Smith

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