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Where to buy small metric counterbores
I am looking for small metric counterbores 3mm and smaller, MSC and McMaster
only have 3mm and bigger. I can get custom made counterbore made to spec. but they cost too much, and min. qty.of 6 each. per size. Thanks in advance for your help, Jack |
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Where to buy small metric counterbores
On Aug 29, 8:16*am, "Jack Lai" wrote:
I am looking for small metric counterbores 3mm and smaller, MSC and McMaster only have 3mm and bigger. I can get custom made counterbore made to spec. but they cost too much, and min. qty.of *6 each. per size. Thanks in advance for your help, Jack Are you aware you can grind any drill bit, including Metric, flat on the tip and use it for counterboring? First, start the hole with a normal drill bit of the size you need, and then finish it with the flat bottom drill. I learned this when I bought a set of letter drills at a machine shop auction and they were all ground flat on the bottom. Work like a charm for counter boring. Paul |
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Bob Engelhardt wrote:
wrote: Are you aware you can grind any drill bit, including Metric, flat on the tip and use it for counterboring? ... Without a pilot? It doesn't wander? If not, why not? "Paul wrote: Are you aware you can grind any drill bit, including Metric, flat on the tip and use it for counterboring? First, start the hole with a normal drill bit of the size you need, and then finish it with the flat bottom drill." The drilled hole using a conventional hole is the pilot. The flat ground one guides on the previous drilled hole and takes out the drill cusp. Wes |
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Where to buy small metric counterbores
Wes wrote:
The drilled hole using a conventional hole is the pilot. The flat ground one guides on the previous drilled hole and takes out the drill cusp. That's just flattening the bottom of a blind hole, that's not counterboring - where the counterbore is larger than the drill hole. Or maybe that's called counterboring, too, even though it's a very special case. Bob |
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Where to buy small metric counterbores
On 8/29/2010 4:12 PM, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Wes wrote: The drilled hole using a conventional hole is the pilot. The flat ground one guides on the previous drilled hole and takes out the drill cusp. That's just flattening the bottom of a blind hole, that's not counterboring - where the counterbore is larger than the drill hole. Or maybe that's called counterboring, too, even though it's a very special case. If the result is a hole with the position, dimensions, profile, and finish that you want it doesn't really matter how you got there. |
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Where to buy small metric counterbores
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:16:38 -0500, "Jack Lai"
wrote: I am looking for small metric counterbores 3mm and smaller, MSC and McMaster only have 3mm and bigger. I can get custom made counterbore made to spec. but they cost too much, and min. qty.of 6 each. per size. Thanks in advance for your help, Jack ========= try http://mdmetric.com/ http://www.pts-tools.com/cgi/CGPTSRI...=01_08_001_004 -- Unka George (George McDuffee) ............................... The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953). |
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Bob Engelhardt wrote in
: Wes wrote: The drilled hole using a conventional hole is the pilot. The flat ground one guides on the previous drilled hole and takes out the drill cusp. That's just flattening the bottom of a blind hole, that's not counterboring - where the counterbore is larger than the drill hole. Or maybe that's called counterboring, too, even though it's a very special case. Bob I think you missed a part of the process involving different size drills.... Drill the shank hole for fastener, through, blind, tapped, whatever. Switch to a normal drill of a larger size to clear the head of the fastener. Drill on the same location to the required 'counterbore' depth. Then switch to a modified drill with a flatted end to clean the corners of the counterbore and leave a square shoulder in the hole. |
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Charles U Farley wrote:
I think you missed a part of the process involving different size drills.... Yes, I did. Well, Paul said "... start the hole ...", where he meant "... start the counterbore ...". But I did have a failure of imagination that would have filled it in. Thanks, Bob |
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Where to buy small metric counterbores
On Aug 29, 3:08*pm, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Charles U Farley wrote: I think you missed a part of the process involving different size drills.... Yes, I did. *Well, Paul said "... start the hole ...", where he meant "... start the counterbore ...". *But I did have a failure of imagination that would have filled it in. Thanks, Bob Sorry, I kinda got in a hurry to get the job done and didn't explain each step very well. Easier done than said, I guess. Pual |
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