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Drill bit sizes
Can some one please help me with drill bit size numbering? I have
Googled, but my finds were confusing. Some fitting require hole size in inches, some in mm, ok I can convert those, but others are in Drill Numbers, for example a wall plug may require Drill #10, where can I find these equivalences please? TIA |
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"Broadback" wrote in message ... Can some one please help me with drill bit size numbering? I have Googled, but my finds were confusing. Some fitting require hole size in inches, some in mm, ok I can convert those, but others are in Drill Numbers, for example a wall plug may require Drill #10, where can I find these equivalences please? TIA http://www.cjseymour.plus.com/mechdata.htm |
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John Woodison wrote:
http://www.cjseymour.plus.com/mechdata.htm I think he was talking about masonry drills, not the old number-sizes of morse twist drills, to which that table refers. For masonry drills the following is about right: No. Dia./mm --- --- 8 4.5 10 5.5 12 6.5 14 7.0 16 8.0 -- Andy |
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Andy Wade wrote:
John Woodison wrote: http://www.cjseymour.plus.com/mechdata.htm I think he was talking about masonry drills, not the old number-sizes of morse twist drills, to which that table refers. For masonry drills the following is about right: No. Dia./mm --- --- 8 4.5 10 5.5 12 6.5 14 7.0 16 8.0 Thank you both for taking the trouble to answer. Perhaps you can see why I am confused, how can a No 14 drill in one case be 4.6mm and in the other 7.0mm. |
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Some fitting require hole size in inches, some in mm, ok I can convert
those, but others are in Drill Numbers, for example a wall plug may require Drill #10, where can I find these equivalences please? I just halve them for mm. It's always been close enough for me. Christian. |
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Broadback wrote:
[...] how can a No 14 drill in one case be 4.6mm and in the other 7.0mm. For the same reason that 30 SWG wire isn't the same size as 30 AWG, even though they're both "30 gauge" - different scales, historical reasons, "not invented here" and the mists of time. Oh, and to confuse the uninitiated :-) -- Andy |
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