gear leg bolts through engine mount

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Re: gear leg bolts through engine mount

Postby richd » Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:16 pm

Bryan Cotton wrote:
richd wrote:Thanks, but I don’t have that kind of space for and angle drill.
Kills me that no one has invented a low clearance 90 degree drill.

https://www.yardstore.com/nsearch/?q=pancake+drill

A pancake drill and a short bit works well.


Thanks. Will give that a try.
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Re: gear leg bolts through engine mount

Postby richd » Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:33 pm

Bryan Cotton wrote:
richd wrote:Thanks, but I don’t have that kind of space for and angle drill.
Kills me that no one has invented a low clearance 90 degree drill.

https://www.yardstore.com/nsearch/?q=pancake+drill

A pancake drill and a short bit works well.


Amazing tool. Took a few days to drill through the first hole. 1/8" drill bit broke on the second hole about 1/4" into the titanium. Dealing with a hole new set of issues just to get the bit out of that tight space.
Have researched a lot on this topic, and I think BrownTool's 3/16" Double-Ended RESCUE BIT looks like the best option to get the bit fush with the titanium stock so I can pull it out and deal with it in the drill press.
https://www.browntool.com/Listview/tabi ... fault.aspx

Also ordered a few 2" long (1/8" and 3/16" diameter) magnets from https://www.kjmagnetics.com in hopes that I might be able to pull it out.
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