<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> What kind of drill are you using? (i.e. electric hand drill?)  May I suggest using a Fordom high-speed unit with a long flex cable.  The speed will be to your advantage in piloting the hole. Rob Goodale, RPT     Brian Trout wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>For those of you who make bridges, I'd like to hear what kind of drill bits you're using to drill the bridge pin holes, and the technique you use. Here's what I've been doing.  I've been laying out the pattern on the fresh cap, marking it fist with a pencil mark, and then with a very sharp awl (not deep, just a mark I can see, perhaps 1/32" deep), and proceeding to drill with the standard drill bit from Apsco, by hand. What can I do to keep the wandering bit to a minimum?</blockquote> </body> </html>