How To Drill Holes In Stainless Steel Sheet Metal

You should carefully balance the pressure that you apply.

How to drill holes in stainless steel sheet metal.

In this first quick tips video i show you how easy it is to drill and cut stainless steel when you have the right magic potion. Many people have drilled holes into plain old steel with satisfactory results. Too much friction may cause your drill to overheat and if this happens you may ruin your drill and the stainless steel. This will help you in the upcoming frilling process.

To 3 16 in you can drill through most metals at 3 000 rpm. Please help support my effort. Hard metals like steel and larger drill bits require even slower speeds. Take a center punch and use it.

Drilling through stainless steel is much like drilling through any other type of metal but with a few key differences. Mark your center and diameter. Place the die over the draw stud before inserting the stud through the pilot hole. In general it s a good idea to drill through metal using as slow a speed as possible using a drill bit for metal.

I set my drill press to its slowest speed or run my portable drill as slow as the trigger will allow. Drilling hardened steel with masonry bits this was actually a tip that i got from a comment on my making a knife video that i dismissed as something that wouldn t work. Using high speed drill bits or better is mandatory. With a small twist bit 1 16 in.

The punch is then. To setup the punch first drill a pilot hole into a piece of sheet metal with a step drill bit. When drilling stainless steel you need to slowly drill to permit the drill bit to find its own working speed. Here is the right way to drill stainless steel.

There are also other steps to drilling this material that will make the process easier. Put one half of the punch on one side and the other half on the opposite side. I normally try to have a more open mind but thought that there s no way you could get a masonry bit sharp enough to drill into hardened steel.