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Posted by Sacramento Dave on October 31, 2006, 11:33 pm
I have cut many holes in stainless sinks with a whole saws. I use soapy
water for a lube. I just finished a bunch of wholes in some dialysis boxes
in a hospital ( close to 50 ) What I found worked best was a Uni bit .
Drilled a pilot whole with a steal stud screw first.
> 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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