The wooden bread layers of the sandwich keep the sheet metal flat and prevent the drill bit from wandering as it bores through the sheet metal.
Drilling round holes in sheet metal.
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How to drill a square hole.
For clean precise holes in thin sheet metal make a wood sandwich.
Style because once you have a perfectly round hole it is easier to open it slightly with a standard drill or tapered reamer rather than grind up a new diameter.
This is the most straightforward option for drilling a round hole in sheet metals.
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Simply sandwich the sheet metal between two pieces of wood and clamp everything down on a table or workbench.
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When cutting out a circle one or sometimes two cutting tools are rotated about a center point to.
Then gradually start drilling larger holes.
Drilling round holes in sheet metal.
Position the pattern on the sheet metal where the hole needs to go and draw a line around it using a permanent marker.
At first start by drilling a small diameter pilot hole.
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Create a paper pattern of the size and shape of hole you wish to cut.
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Do this till you get your required hole size.
Measure from the edges of the sheet metal to the point at which you wish to place the hole.
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