Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet hinges? in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!
I see them advertised at screwfix £12.62 and £16 BQ
Fil

Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet hinges?
in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!

A drill press would be the ideal tool, if you can borrow one from someone,
but I would imagine that a hand drill (if you mean hand powered, not
electric or cordless) would make the hole OK if somewhat slowly.

Sometimes I think hand tools give a more controlable result.

Toby.

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Toby wrote:
Sometimes I think hand tools give a more controlable result.

Or in my case just go off 'true' more slowly.

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Dave Plowman London SW 12
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"philosopher" wrote:

Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet hinges? in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!
I see them advertised at screwfix £12.62 and £16 BQ

Axminster do short pattern 35mm forstners for £6.19
http://www.axminster.co.uk/default.asp?part=FB410

I use mine with a portable drill stand to control depth and keep it
square, about £12.

Peter

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On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:52:44 GMT, "philosopher"
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Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet hinges? in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!

Drill a hole through a bit of ply or whatever. Put that over the door
where you want your hole (stand on it, clamp it) and drill away: You
can't slip and you're straight. Add a strip of wood and a pencil mark
or so and you've got a jig so all holes can be 3mm (?) from the edge.

Don't overheat the bit -- it's easy to do in hardwood.

Thomas Prufer

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"philosopher" wrote:

Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet hinges? in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!

I use mine with a portable drill stand to control depth and keep it
square, about £12.

I just drilled mine with a hand held power drill. It worked fine (4
pairs of hinges) but yes a drill stand would make more sense.

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Chris French, Leeds

or for £6.99 or you can get a full set of forstner bits of 15, 20, 25, 30
and 35mm from machine mart


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In article ,
"philosopher" wrote:

Anyone used these for cutting a 35mm hole for the kitchen cabinet
hinges? in
hard wood doors????
can you use a ordinary hand drill? carefully!
I see them advertised at screwfix £12.62 and £16 BQ

Axminster do short pattern 35mm forstners for £6.19
http://www.axminster.co.uk/default.asp?part=FB410

I use mine with a portable drill stand to control depth and keep it
square, about £12.

Peter

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Peter Ashby
School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland
To assume that I speak for the University of Dundee is to be deluded.
Reverse the Spam and remove to email me.