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BACKGROUND:
Customer called up. He has two bathrooms tiled back to back.
He need to drill through one set of tiles into masonary then back out into the other bathrooms tiles.
How can he drill from the back of the tile without splitting or cracking the tiles of the second bathroom.
We initially told him to measure up with accuracy. Take a plug out of each tile in each bathroom then use a standard SDS to drill out the masonary.
He was not happy with this citing too much room for error. So we produced a custom drill for him to drill out the back of the tile.
He must drill out a disc or plug from the first tile and then start to drill through the masonary behind until he reaches the tiles of the other bathroom.
And then this he needs to swap to the drill we made for him to drill the back of the tile out.
This is how we made the drill bit for him.
We took a standard masonary drill and cut the tip off
Then ground it into a nub or stub.
We created the cutting end from a 16mm diamond core bit but instead of a tapered end to fit a small drill we plan to weld it to the stub.
Like this….. But instead of welding we are going to try liquid metal.
Mix up the chemicals (It really STINKS – So ventilate well)
Fix together and let set overnight.
More grinding with the disc to reduce the chemical metal down to a neat finish.
The diamond core tile drill is connected to the standard masonary drill shaft.
A bit of polish and luster and the diamond core tile drill looks firmly bonded to the sacrifical masonary shaft.
BACKGROUND:
Customer called up. He has two bathrooms tiled back to back.
He need to drill through one set of tiles into masonary then back out into the other bathrooms tiles.
How can he drill from the back of the tile without splitting or cracking the tiles of the second bathroom.
We initially told him to measure up with accuracy. Take a plug out of each tile in each bathroom then use a standard SDS to drill out the masonary.
He was not happy with this citing too much room for error. So we produced a custom drill for him to drill out the back of the tile.
He must drill out a disc or plug from the first tile and then start to drill through the masonary behind until he reaches the tiles of the other bathroom.
And then this he needs to swap to the drill we made for him to drill the back of the tile out.
This is how we made the drill bit for him.
We took a standard masonary drill and cut the tip off
Then ground it into a nub or stub.
We created the cutting end from a 16mm diamond core bit but instead of a tapered end to fit a small drill we plan to weld it to the stub.
Like this….. But instead of welding we are going to try liquid metal.
Mix up the chemicals (It really STINKS – So ventilate well)
Fix together and let set overnight.
More grinding with the disc to reduce the chemical metal down to a neat finish.
The diamond core tile drill is connected to the standard masonary drill shaft.
A bit of polish and luster and the diamond core tile drill looks firmly bonded to the sacrifical masonary shaft.
i would have posted far worse!
