How do you drill through stainless steel at home?

What would be nice is a solid carbide drill. With it you simply apply power and the drill starts to cut. I have had mine red hot when it started to cut when drilling lathe bits. Those made of cobalt and are tough.

I made a forming bit. Drill and grind.

I bought mine from MSCdirect.com -

Mart>

That's become a common misunderstanding.

Good marketing. Bad engineering.

Uncle Steve Inscribed thus:

I've used a similar technique for drilling holes in glass bottles to make table lamps. A copper tube with a groove filed across the end dipped in grinding paste. Slow, but you get a smooth burr free hole. Smoothing the inside is a little harder. :-)

Ed Huntress Inscribed thus:

Interesting technique, I'll have to remember that one !

Several people in labor, mfg, design, etc ... have no theoretical or practical knowledge in metalworking, but still take, send or broker related work out. My problem with people in this group is the sickening bigotry and the convincing sock puppetry.

WHICH group? The thread is crossposted among four newsgroups.

Id hit it with a TIG welder and put a stainless washer on the butt end. That way you can use any size washer with a big hole in it.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

Thanks!! Excellent method!!

Saved!

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

Want one? I run across at least 1 a year. I sent one off last year to be scrapped. Ran fine, nobody wanted it.

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

I have some Cable Hangers..which are a finger trap secured to a 1/2" conduit threaded connector. For hanging drops from the center hole of a blank 4x box cover. Might be easily converted to this use. They finger trap is made from steel cable (not stainless unfortunately)

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

You may be thinking of Kellem Grips. I've used them for years to pull wire through conduit or installed them as cord grips. The things work like Chinese Finger Puzzles. ^_^

TDD

Those I have several sizes of. The overhead cable thingies are of the same type, with a threaded bit of pipe nipple attached .

Want a photo?

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

I was selling the stuff 40 years ago when I worked for an electrical supply company. I used one a while back to fix a problem for a pizza place where the kept ripping the outlet out of the wall for their prep table every time they moved it to clean the floor. I removed the outlet and installed an hospital grade cord body with a pigtail of 12/3 SO cord anchored to the wall with a Kellem Grip which would allow the plug to simply pull straight out of the cord body without damage. I also use the grips to hang power cords from the ceiling in the middle of shop floors. ^_^

TDD

Good man, then you have seen them before. Thanks for letting me know what they are called. I always called them Finger Puzzle cable grips and the guys at the will call desk knew what I was talking about.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

If there's no TIG handy, there's always JB Weld. I use brazing filler rod for making rings for such things, the local Ace has welded brass and steel rings in a variety of sizes in the misc. hardware aisle. Or, if you gotta have heat involved, silver braze will work. Kind of overkill for a fancy church key.

Post said "can opener" and I'm thinking some variety of Swing-Away, not a church key. Does anything drinkable still come in steel cans that need puncturing? Tomato juice and V8 are all I can think of and those would be the big cans, not individual serving sizes.

Stan

You can use them as a come along for prisoners too by slipping them over their fingers or thumbs. ^_^

TDD