I'm curious, why the second pass by hand? Seems to me that a bit in a stable drill press will always give more consistent results. What do you folks see as the advantage to doing a second pass by hand? Terry Farrell On Mar 7, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote: > I do and I think that most of us here who want to do the best job do. > > Al - > High Point, NC > > > On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Noah Frere <noahfrere at gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification. Does anybody else here do the second pass by hand? > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jim Ialeggio <jim at grandpianosolutions.com> wrote: > Mike Spaulding wrote: > > <Nubbed? By hand? more detail please! > > Ouch!! I read back over my post and realized I misstated what I meant to say. > > Here it is corrected with a pic of the SLOW SPIRAL, nubbed bit: > > 1st pass 1/4" fast spiral, or whatever you bit you want to use...not too picky > 2nd pass - SLOW SPIRAL nubbed run through with a hand drill. Sized as per final target torque and block type, by test. > > The nubbed bit simply has the cutting edge ground off (eyeballed on the grinder) to about a 90 deg angle at the OD of the bit's leading edge. See pic. > > Just to confirm, I wrote fast spiral nubbed in my original post...I meant to say that the 2nd pass is SLOW SPIRAL nubbed!!! > > I'm actually thinking of having WL Fuller regrind these so that the 1st 1" is a 1/4" non-cutting pilot step drill... but haven't had that done that yet. > > Jim Ialeggio > -- > Jim Ialeggio > jim at grandpianosolutions.com > 978 425-9026 > Shirley Center, MA > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130307/992c81d8/attachment.htm>
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