On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:59:37 +0200, electrophilip
<electrophil@...> wrote:
drillstand is going to matter, at all.
You can comfortably freehand drill with HSS without ever breaking a drill.
Of course, there's that other problem with hss, that they are dull after
the second hole and work rather like a blunt stick, i.e. melting the hole
rather than drilling it.
Perfectly acceptable approach for many homebrew boards however.
ST
<electrophil@...> wrote:
>With HSS bits none of the problems of runout or instability of the
> I have been using a dremel with keyless chuck hand held for a while
> now with high speed steel bits, have just mounted it on a $10aus drill
> press. Bought a nut that screws on the nose of the dremel machined the
> outside to fit the clamp of drill press and hey presto drill bit comes
> down square to board now. I'm slowly getting gear together to build
> cnc driller will use dremel in it for a while but probably make a
> spindle with good bearings.
> Philip
drillstand is going to matter, at all.
You can comfortably freehand drill with HSS without ever breaking a drill.
Of course, there's that other problem with hss, that they are dull after
the second hole and work rather like a blunt stick, i.e. melting the hole
rather than drilling it.
Perfectly acceptable approach for many homebrew boards however.
ST