Dual drill bit?

No.

There are stepped drill bits available. Most of them have the larger step ground square, like a counterbore, but you can find some with angled steps. Or have them ground that way by a sharpening shop.

Those will cut a hole plus a bevel, or countersink. They would work fine on a piece of flat plate. On a piece of pipe, though, all they would do is bevel the very top of the curve.

2.375" is a pretty good sized drill. And it's tough to drill through a piece of pipe without the bit grabbing. You might consider a hole saw instead.

John Martin

Plasma cutter and a template.

Sounds like a core drill / Cole drill. Yea plasma fine cut edge but it might be messy - grind out and then weld.

If a drill was used then the hole would be cleaner.

Just wish I knew what IPS meant. Inches per second ? Inside ???

ID ok - IPS ?

Martin

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I guessed it was Inside Pipe Standard (ID)

Plasma with a steady hand can leave a cut like glass.

You can have any sort of tool like this ground by any decent cutter/tool grinder.

Probably cost about $250 including the stock drill they will grind down.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

gunner, I don't think any kind of custom bit will chamfer the hole the way he wants on an intersecting cylinder.

Cylinder...cringe...absoutely correct. Not with an even chamfer around the hole. Nope. You are indeed correct.

It could be done on a CNC mill with helical interpelation (sp?) but not with a single hand tool, other than a die grinder.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner