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Richard Rogers

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Nov 27, 2001
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Bentley, Louisiana
I probably am not the first to do this, but it's a useful trick when punching an existing hole to a larger size.

I had to punch a 3/8" hole out larger to 9/16" in a steel piece yesterday using the ironworker. I would take a 3/8" slug from a hole punched in something else, and placing it into the 3/8" hole I wanted to enlarge gave me a center to go by to help keep the new larger hole concentric to the old one's center.

Not "dead accurate" or anything, but ws within tolerance of what I had to do, and saved me some time.

Richard
 
That's good Richard. I could see doing that if the ironworker was already setup with the 9/16 tooling.
I would probably just drill the larger hole if the tooling needed setup.

Les
 








 
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