Drilling/cutting a 30 mm hole in 0.8 mm aluminium

May 29, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 25 Replies

A lot of people use the paper catalogue to look up part numbers because it displays items in sensible categories, then revert to the web pages.

QMAX punches were the goto solution in the days of valves and valveholders

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£11.50. A snip!

Unless you have a tame sheet metal workshop with old hand presses and punches, that is the bees bollocks

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I used one of these:

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last week to drill 40mm holes into an alloy casting.

Clamp it between two pieces of stout ply and drill through the lot with anything.

Bill

Interesting sizes. 50mm could be useful for me.

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