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Drill Pilot Hole (Initial Attempt)

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I Screwed Up BIG TIME on This One...

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What happens here

Equip a cordless drill with a 3/16 inch drill bit and carefully align it with the center-punched mark on the broken bolt. Begin drilling, applying steady pressure. The initial attempt in the video shows the drill bit struggling and failing to cut through the hardened or rusted bolt material.

Goal: Using a cordless drill with a 3/16 inch drill bit, attempt to drill a pilot hole through the center-punched area of the broken bolt.

Tools and materials

  • 3/16 inch Drill Bit
  • Cordless Drill
  • Safety Glasses

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glasses down and away we go. My line for today is with all successes come fails. Like that that drill bit failed me. So I went and got another one. And this one already is just tearing through it. We're going to put that extractor in there. This is going to work out sweet I think. So you see that? We got that hole the whole way through. And I have a machinist friend that I was talking to about this this morning. And if you drill that the whole way through, it actually collapses that bolt or whatever it is. It collapses it just a little bit like in the tenths I think. And it collapses it just enough to where it kind of maybe frees it up a little bit more. And so now we're going to see if we can pull it out. So this is the number one extractor. This is the baby

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