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Default Drill 1/16th inch hole through 8mm stainless steel rod?

Too much feed pressure. When you're almost
through, use very, very light feed pressure.
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"Richard" wrote in message m...

I've done this kind of drilling before and
nearly always break a bit -
when breaking through the bottom side.

What did I do wrong?