I carried a Buck knife for 10 years that had:
a) light weight plastic handle
b) folding
c) locking
d) belt clip
e) one hand operation
f) some serrations on blade

Then I lost it last week.
They don't make them anymore.
So I found a Buck 442 knife in new old stock on Ebay.
But that knife has no thumb button on the blade.

I have put thumb buttons on blades that already have a button hole.
I just screw two 4-40 nuts on an Allen head set screw and grind to fit.

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard stainless
blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drill
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-5931
or a
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-6027

and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or annealing?

TIA

Clark Magnuson wrote:
I carried a Buck knife for 10 years that had:
a) light weight plastic handle
b) folding
c) locking
d) belt clip
e) one hand operation
f) some serrations on blade

Then I lost it last week.
They don't make them anymore.
So I found a Buck 442 knife in new old stock on Ebay.
But that knife has no thumb button on the blade.

I have put thumb buttons on blades that already have a button hole.
I just screw two 4-40 nuts on an Allen head set screw and grind to fit.

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard stainless
blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drill
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-5931

or a
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-6027


and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or annealing?

TIA

You could spot anneal and then drill. The easy way to do that would be
to use a square cut section of drill rod the size of the hole you want.
Then run it against the spot you want to drill. The friction will heat
that spot and anneal it so you can drill it.

--
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

Don't worry about the drill, it will last and can be red hot.
The blade should be cut long before that. Yes cutting it in a pool
of coolant and flood isn't a bad idea.

Good luck. I found the knife I lost - I turned my chair upside down
for a second time - it was lodged within and finally fell out.
I had no idea where it was.

Good luck!

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/


Clark Magnuson wrote:
I carried a Buck knife for 10 years that had:
a) light weight plastic handle
b) folding
c) locking
d) belt clip
e) one hand operation
f) some serrations on blade

Then I lost it last week.
They don't make them anymore.
So I found a Buck 442 knife in new old stock on Ebay.
But that knife has no thumb button on the blade.

I have put thumb buttons on blades that already have a button hole.
I just screw two 4-40 nuts on an Allen head set screw and grind to fit.

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard stainless
blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drill
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-5931

or a
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...PMAKA=317-6027


and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or annealing?

TIA


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Clark Magnuson writes:


So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard stainless
blade is .120" thick.

Are EDM machines still around?

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Clark Magnuson wrote in
:

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard
stainless blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drill
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...9499330&PMAKA=
317-5931 or a
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...9499426&PMAKA=
317-6027

and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or
annealing?

I've had good luck with cheap masonry bits when I only needed to do a few
holes. (I convert old files into knives. grin)

Center punch and drill at ~1200 RPM.

What goes through un-annealed files should go through your blade.

On Sep 28, 2:31*pm, Clark Magnuson wrote:
I carried a Buck knife for 10 years that had:
a) light weight plastic handle
b) folding
c) locking
d) belt clip
e) one hand operation
f) some serrations on blade

Then I lost it last week.
They don't make them anymore.
So I found a Buck 442 knife in new old stock on Ebay.
But that knife has no thumb button on the blade.

I have put thumb buttons on blades that already have a button hole.
I just screw two 4-40 nuts on an Allen head set screw and grind to fit.

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard stainless
blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drillhttp://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PARTPG=INLMKD&PMPXNO=19499330&PMAK...
or ahttp://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PARTPG=INLMKD&PMPXNO=19499426&PMAK...

and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or annealing?

TIA

Smokey mountain knives used to carry a thumb stud that clamped on with
a screw. You might be able to find one or make one.
Karl

I wouldn't use a masonry bit - better than nothing.

The design isn't for precision holes. Just one in that cement...

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/


RAM³ wrote:
Clark Magnuson wrote in
:

So now I would want to drill a 1/8" hole in some kind of hard
stainless blade is .120" thick.

Can I just buy a carbide drill
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...9499330&PMAKA=
317-5931 or a
http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...9499426&PMAKA=
317-6027

and drill a hole at 700 r.p.m with no coolant or cutting oil or
annealing?

I've had good luck with cheap masonry bits when I only needed to do a few
holes. (I convert old files into knives. grin)

Center punch and drill at ~1200 RPM.

What goes through un-annealed files should go through your blade.



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