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?? about drilling deep hole in wood
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch
( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
monkers wrote:
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig theres nothing to stop you from putting the tailstock between the cross slide and the headstock, tying them together with some string and doing it that way. |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
monkers wrote:
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig Just push the entire tialstock up and down the ways by hand, occasionally pulling it back to clear the chips. Paul -- ----------------------------------------- It's a Linux world....well, it oughta be. ----------------------------------------- |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
According to monkers :
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, What kind of toolpost do you have? If you have a quick-change toolpost by Aloris, or one of the semi-clones (by Phase-II or several other makers) there are tool holders with a Morse taper socket. Install this, put in a drill chuck with arbor, carefully center it relative to the spindle, and then chuck your drill and feed with the carriage handwheel. Or -- if you already have the boring bar holder for such a quick-change toolpost, you may be able to find a cylindrical to Morse taper adaptor to reduce that to the size of Morse taper you need. Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
the fastest way is to spend about $10 and buy a lamp auger, put each block
between centers on a wood lathe and run the auger in through the tailstock "monkers" wrote in message ps.com... I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
a llittle more detail on my rather terse reply about a lamp auger
1. on headstock side, when I said "between centers", I should have said - make a fixture on a faceplate to center the block 2. on the tailstock side, use a live center where you can remove the central point and then you can drill through - these centers (for woodworking) can have a removable center point and around that a sharp ring - Technatools makes them, and maybe others "Paul" wrote in message . .. monkers wrote: I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig Just push the entire tialstock up and down the ways by hand, occasionally pulling it back to clear the chips. Paul -- ----------------------------------------- It's a Linux world....well, it oughta be. ----------------------------------------- -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
On Nov 7, 4:51 pm, monkers wrote:
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig That's a really skinny hole for the length, even drilling from each end you're going to have a LOT of wander. Best bet is to split the blocks, rout the groove in each half and glue back together. Today's glues give a bond stronger than the wood itself. Would be a WHOLE lot faster than pecking away with a bendy twist drill. If you only need some kind of clearance for a rod or tube, kerf the split chunks lengthwise with a circular saw, would be faster than a router. For larger diameter holes, you can make up a center spud for the drill press, the spud goes in a hole exactly on the quill axis. The center is marked and punched on each end of the block, then one end is held on the spud while drilling commences at the center mark on the other end. Half-way through, you flip the block and drill back the other direction. If you use something like a Forstner bit, the holes should meet. Works for through-holes in gun buttstocks anyway. Stan |
?? about drilling deep hole in wood
On Nov 7, 4:51 pm, monkers wrote:
I have a friend who brought a project by the other day. He has a bunch ( 60 + - ) 1"x1"x8" hardwood blocks that need to have a 3/16" hole drilled through the center (long ways) . Any ideas on the best, fastest way to do this? I was thinking of putting them in the 4 jaw & drill with a normal length drill, then switch to a 12" bit, but I only have about 3" of travel on the tailstock ram. So, I thought I could make some makeshift drill bit holder and mount in place of the tool post and use the carrige to drill the hole. Any ideas would be helpful, thanks, Craig That's a really skinny hole for the length, even drilling from each end you're going to have a LOT of wander. Best bet is to split the blocks, rout the groove in each half and glue back together. Today's glues give a bond stronger than the wood itself. Would be a WHOLE lot faster than pecking away with a bendy twist drill. If you only need some kind of clearance for a rod or tube, kerf the split chunks lengthwise with a circular saw, would be faster than a router. For larger diameter holes, you can make up a center spud for the drill press, the spud goes in a hole exactly on the quill axis. The center is marked and punched on each end of the block, then one end is held on the spud while drilling commences at the center mark on the other end. Half-way through, you flip the block and drill back the other direction. If you use something like a Forstner bit, the holes should meet. Works for through-holes in gun buttstocks anyway. Stan |
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