studioso
Member
hello,
I have a project brewing in my mind that will require drilling a hole into plastic blanks that will be at least 5" long. keeping in mind that:
-the hole will be blind: only drilled from one side
-the hole will be probably be 1/2" or 3/8".
-the blank will not be rounded.
-I plan to do many of these
I think that drilling on the drill press is out of the question, since mine only has a stroke of 2" and readjusting the height of the table means re-centering the table's lateral movement.
drilling on the lathe seems more reasonable: but the blanks are seldom perfectly square, so it seems to me that to perfectly align the blanks in the 4 jaw chuck that I have I'd need to first square the 4 sides of the blanks.
I'm sure that many of you will have great insights and perhaps can think of other obstacles I might have/ways to do this.
thank you very much
I have a project brewing in my mind that will require drilling a hole into plastic blanks that will be at least 5" long. keeping in mind that:
-the hole will be blind: only drilled from one side
-the hole will be probably be 1/2" or 3/8".
-the blank will not be rounded.
-I plan to do many of these
I think that drilling on the drill press is out of the question, since mine only has a stroke of 2" and readjusting the height of the table means re-centering the table's lateral movement.
drilling on the lathe seems more reasonable: but the blanks are seldom perfectly square, so it seems to me that to perfectly align the blanks in the 4 jaw chuck that I have I'd need to first square the 4 sides of the blanks.
I'm sure that many of you will have great insights and perhaps can think of other obstacles I might have/ways to do this.
thank you very much