please help, need some ideas!
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: Alhambra Calismognazifornia, in the country everyone comes just to complain but won't go back home!
please help, need some ideas!
ok, last night one of the locating pins on my roof (coupe) snapped off at the base as i was getting out of my driveway (steep driveway + come out at severe angles = lots of torque on chassis and roof hard points). not that big a deal, right? drill the piece left in the roof's tapped hole, tap a reverse thread hole and back the piece out....well, as i was doing step one, i had already gotten about 1/4" deep and decided i wanted to go a bit deeper. i put the drill back in and start slowly going deeper....*SNAP*....my high speed steel drill bit snapped and plugged the nice hole i had drilled for the tap. 
now what do i do?? i tried going in with a slightly bigger bit but it won't bite on the drill bit steel at all (i didn't expect it to but had to give it a try).
any ideas?
now what do i do?? i tried going in with a slightly bigger bit but it won't bite on the drill bit steel at all (i didn't expect it to but had to give it a try).
any ideas?
Thread Starter
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,116
Likes: 0
From: Alhambra Calismognazifornia, in the country everyone comes just to complain but won't go back home!
ok, last night one of the locating pins on my roof (coupe) snapped off at the base as i was getting out of my driveway (steep driveway + come out at severe angles = lots of torque on chassis and roof hard points). not that big a deal, right? drill the piece left in the roof's tapped hole, tap a reverse thread hole and back the piece out....well, as i was doing step one, i had already gotten about 1/4" deep and decided i wanted to go a bit deeper. i put the drill back in and start slowly going deeper....*SNAP*....my high speed steel drill bit snapped and plugged the nice hole i had drilled for the tap.
now what do i do?? i tried going in with a slightly bigger bit but it won't bite on the drill bit steel at all (i didn't expect it to but had to give it a try).
any ideas?
now what do i do?? i tried going in with a slightly bigger bit but it won't bite on the drill bit steel at all (i didn't expect it to but had to give it a try).
any ideas?
nobody ever have this happen to them?
