Drilling in a curved metal surface

[mardtrp]

Hhmm, everybody seems to be missing the point here, that is, the material he is going to drill, it's only aluminium.
Now this stuff is not quite as soft as butter, but you better believe it's soft and very easily drilled, with just plain old common garden variety MILD STEEL.

Some have come up with expensive ideas, 'cause they dont know any better. So why not investigate what jewellers have used for centuries, then you might learn something in your life, they drill very tiny holes that are ten times smaller than what is being asked here. So instead of just going thru the motions and rolling out all these ideas that cost money, why not use the cheapest and easiest ideas of all time.

Have you lot ever had a look at the el-cheapo, 'made in china', jewellers screwdriver sets, for a lousy couple of bucks, you get half a dozen perfectly good, EXACT sized screwdrivers, that in a few minutes can be turned into EXACT SIZED drills, that will eat the soft ally and any of the plastic you lot work with. No worries about breaking them either, if they bend, then just straighten them and keep going.

Now you lot are so up with it and know all the answers, then why hasn't anybody here bothered to investigate, what you can do with cheap stuff, all it needs is for somebody to use their brain, it don't need to cost big bucks.

Some times the simple things in life are best.

Mark

[Didymus]

Originally Posted by mardtrp

Now you lot are so up with it and know all the answers...

What's with the rudeness? Do "you lot" know how to be polite?

Your attitude does not go down well.

Ddms

[joelwideqvist]

Are you drunk

/Joel