I've never had much interest in fabricating anything until recently and am now slowly expanding my power tool collection as I'm building an old Honda CB750.
I made some brackets to adapt a car engine stand so it would take a bike engine, I think it was 5 or 6mm angle iron I used. Pic from Christmas time when I rebuilt the engine:
Yes I rebuilt an engine in my living room.
I had an absolute nightmare drilling the 8mm holes, no matter what I tried I couldn't get the drill to actually do its thing and basically it ended up just grinding through the metal taking probably upwards of 5 minutes per hole!!
Obviously I did something wrong here and as I've got some more holes to drill in some 3mm steel soon I want to do it right. I have a Ryobi cordless drill and used HSS drill bits out of of a makita accessory set. At first I tried a slow speed with varying amounts of pressure, then the same with higher speeds but no matter what I did the drill bit didn't bite into the metal.
Do I need to be using different drill bits? Am I correct in thinking I need to use a slow speed with a decent amount of pressure?
I made some brackets to adapt a car engine stand so it would take a bike engine, I think it was 5 or 6mm angle iron I used. Pic from Christmas time when I rebuilt the engine:
Yes I rebuilt an engine in my living room.
I had an absolute nightmare drilling the 8mm holes, no matter what I tried I couldn't get the drill to actually do its thing and basically it ended up just grinding through the metal taking probably upwards of 5 minutes per hole!!
Obviously I did something wrong here and as I've got some more holes to drill in some 3mm steel soon I want to do it right. I have a Ryobi cordless drill and used HSS drill bits out of of a makita accessory set. At first I tried a slow speed with varying amounts of pressure, then the same with higher speeds but no matter what I did the drill bit didn't bite into the metal.
Do I need to be using different drill bits? Am I correct in thinking I need to use a slow speed with a decent amount of pressure?