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I'm planning on customizing a spyderco delica 98 with cocobolo dymondwood scales, stainless liners, and maybe flat grinding the blade. If you read my HORSESH*T thread you know how its been going already.
And now I've run into a another hang up. Due to the fact that the knife was made in Seki City Japan, where they use that damned metric system, it has 3mm pins
I don't know where to buy them and would rather not wait another month for peices and parts to be mailed in from all over the world, so I'm hoping I can redrill the pivot hole to either 1/8" or 3/16". And then for the pin in the backspring I'll try and turn down a peice of brass rod using the wonderfully accurate method or chucking it up in my drill press and holding a good square sanding block against it. ( yeah, I'll have to stop and check it alot, but its still cheaper than a lathe)
So the blade is ATS55 and hardened to about RC60 I think. And I need a carbide drill bit.
I've heard that the solid bits are really fragile, and seeing as how the spindle isn't the tightest on my drill press I'm guessing I shouldn't get a solid bit, because it will probably shatter as soon as it touches the tang.Where can I find a carbide tipped bit? I've heard that cement bits are carbide tipped, would that work for one hole? And do you think that I would be better off removing as little material from the hole as possible(drilling to 1/8" ) or should I take more off so that the bit gets a more solid bight into the cut (3/16")?
Thanks for any help. Or if you have a different idea than me I'd like to hear that too.
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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
And now I've run into a another hang up. Due to the fact that the knife was made in Seki City Japan, where they use that damned metric system, it has 3mm pins
So the blade is ATS55 and hardened to about RC60 I think. And I need a carbide drill bit.
I've heard that the solid bits are really fragile, and seeing as how the spindle isn't the tightest on my drill press I'm guessing I shouldn't get a solid bit, because it will probably shatter as soon as it touches the tang.Where can I find a carbide tipped bit? I've heard that cement bits are carbide tipped, would that work for one hole? And do you think that I would be better off removing as little material from the hole as possible(drilling to 1/8" ) or should I take more off so that the bit gets a more solid bight into the cut (3/16")?
Thanks for any help. Or if you have a different idea than me I'd like to hear that too.
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It'll feel better when it stops hurting.
