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| message from Jerry Built on 18 May 2004 |
I'm not sure how you could chisel out plugs individually and get
an acceptable result.
What is the thing you're plugging holes in?
Perhaps you're in "bodge it" territory. Can you increase the
size of your holes and use a larger plug (BTW, how can an auger
bit "wander"?)? Can you splay out the sides of the plug cutter
and use the resulting conical plug? You might have to soften
the cutter to prevent it breaking (or do it when it's hot)...
Cough. I generally sink it in a piece of appropriate scrap
timber on fast or slow speed in my old drill, whichever
gives the best finish....
J.B.
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| RichardS replied to Jerry Built on 18 May 2004 |
Fiddly & as you say unlikely to produce an acceptable result. Could be
perhaps roughly chiseled to over-size and sanded down as I have just
described in a previous post...
Incidentally, have you noticed that purveyors of plug cutters often say
"must be used in a drill press" - e.g. axminster "it is virtually impossible
and dangerous to attempt to cut them with a hand-held drill"?
"b*&!?cks" I say! of the hundreds of plugs I've just cut I have not even
come close to a scary moment, and once I got the starting technique cracked
it was a doddle!
don't know how easy the larger sizes of plug cutters would be though.
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| Dave Plowman replied to RichardS on 18 May 2004 |
That's because they don't have a pilot.
I've not attempted it, but with the pillar drill handy I've not needed to.
Biggest I've got is 1".
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