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Posted by on October 31, 2006, 1:53 pm
Man, I never dreamed it would be so bad...a thin layer of stainless
steel.
I bought a new faucet a few days ago and it had a little mobile
sprayer.
My sink was not outfitted with one so it required an inch-in-diameter
hole
to be cut through to be able to install it. I'd never had a need to do
this
before in my life and had never given it a thought. Guys at home
improvement
places and hardware stores were telling me all kinds of ways to do this
right.
None of them turned out to be right, IMO. I had envisioned what
turned out
to exactly exist; a "hole cutter," which fits on the end of a drill.
I thought
it would be a snap. It wasn't. The first one cut a little, then the
teeth apparently
failed and I was just rubbing metal against metal and making lots of
noise and heat.
I bought yet another one (told by old guy working at store that it
wouldn't fail, would
do the job well with a little patience). It failed just a fast as the
first one--20 more
bucks down the drain as I had to buy adapter too for that one.
What I ended up doing was what I had in mind to begin with: Drill a
succession
of holes in a circle with regular bits, then pretty much punch out the
hole.
The hole cutters actually did help since the circular crease they
provided from
use allowed the bits to bite and stay in place when making the circle.
What makes
stainless steel so hard?
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Posted by dpb on October 31, 2006, 2:15 pm
floresrikitic@hotmail.com wrote:
....
...snip saga of trying to use holesaw on stainless...
> What makes stainless steel so hard?
Same thing that makes it stainless--high chromium and nickel content...
The way to get the hole is a Greenlee punch, btw.
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Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on October 31, 2006, 2:24 pm
>
> floresrikitic@hotmail.com wrote:
> ....
>
> ...snip saga of trying to use holesaw on stainless...
>
>> What makes stainless steel so hard?
>
> Same thing that makes it stainless--high chromium and nickel content...
>
> The way to get the hole is a Greenlee punch, btw.
>
That's an amazing tool. Some inventors deserve to be rich.
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Posted by on October 31, 2006, 9:35 pm
dpb wrote:
> The way to get the hole is a Greenlee punch, btw.
Nice way to do it, it appears, but my way was a weeee bit
cheaper don't ya think? These punch kits are hundreds of
dollars, some, *many* hundreds of dollars. And as far as renting
one, the guy at my local tool rental place suggested taking the
entire sink to a machine shop! So I doubt they rented out these
punches.
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Posted by JoeSpareBedroom on October 31, 2006, 9:47 pm
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> dpb wrote:
>
>> The way to get the hole is a Greenlee punch, btw.
>
> Nice way to do it, it appears, but my way was a weeee bit
> cheaper don't ya think? These punch kits are hundreds of
> dollars, some, *many* hundreds of dollars.
How many sizes do you need? They're relatively cheap when you buy just what
you need.
http://www.irvansmith.com/catalog2/parts/greenlee_hole_punches.shtml
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