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Catastrophic failure moment

Posted on January 24, 2021January 24, 2021 By admin


Trying to drill holes through pre-hardened steel led to epic failure. The drill wasn’t doing anything. I’d managed to get a hole through by punching a screw and was trying various ways to widen the hole. After breaking yet another drill bit, we tried a brute force approach involving the screw, a block of wood and the vice. It seemed to be working, then we heard the dreaded p-ting noise… So… Plan B.

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