Mini Office Workbench #8: Cutting the cookies

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This is part 8 in a 13 part series: Mini Office Workbench

Boys and Girls,
                                                                                                     
I slapped on my shiny new yellow TCT bit to cut discs for the cookies,
quickly renaming it lemon... and finished up with,
 
To find out why two, and how I use this great jig,
you might have to watch this video,



If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

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OK this is how I view it.
1. The yellow 3 tooth TCT cutter is basically for cutting holes and not artisian type work that you and others do making wheels.
2. Its basically a very efficient hole cutter and designed for electricians.
When I say efficient I really mean it will almost pull you through the hole if you let it !
3. I know of a set sold by Trade tools and others no doubt.
4. Not the choice for  precision woodworking, (unless you want to borrow my wheel sanding jig to finish the edges)
5. Now 6.0 or thereabouts EMC is OK when its up around 12 its getting critical.

Regards Rob

Summed up like a true professional RC...  Played around today, trying a few combinations and totally agree... at least I can't see any other reason why I'm such a failure.

For what I need, I want smooth and not speed, so I'm not gonna rush out and upgrade all my bi-metals. 

 When I say efficient I really mean it will almost pull you through the hole if you let it ! 

Now that makes sense as I kept trying to limit feed, yet a few times it overloaded the drill and stopped it.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

a  read in the red oval

And yes they can be a real wrist sprainer!
I haven't been able to beat a Bi metal complete circle cutters  for  my wheels.

Regards Rob

Dutchy, who makes a helluva lot of wheels swears by them... as opposed to me, at them!

I believe the quality in Dutchland is a tad better than the Sutton... he sent me a video showing a gele in use and it seemed to do a reasonable job.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

LIttleBlackDuck

Now that makes sense as I kept trying to limit feed, yet a few times it overloaded the drill and stopped it.

Most wood drills require frequent unloading. If you don't do this, it will get stuck or it will break. Also called woodpecker drilling.


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 Dutchy
 commented about 5 hours ago
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Now that makes sense as I kept trying to limit feed, yet a few times it overloaded the drill and stopped it.

Most wood drills require frequent unloading. If you don't do this, it will get stuck or it will break. Also called woodpecker drilling.

I always used to do that... but since I started using that "relief hole" I found I could get away not doing it... I still do it but found I just don't have to.

I did the same with the TCT, but maybe I brought it down too hard (???) on one of the plunges.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD

I still have my wire brush on standby whenever I use any of my holesaws
Pick the size you need and along comes a wire brush as an accessory. I have a 102mm holesaw and i see you can get a 145mm one from total tools   yee gods  

Regards Rob

bloody compressor yep same issue now with so much heat its dodgy smoke alarms going off for 10 seconds,(just enough for you to set about trying to find which one then the annoying problem stops. ...  I should say Oh bah Humbug!

Regards Rob


 RobsCastle
 commented about 17 hours ago
bloody compressor yep same issue now with so much heat its dodgy smoke alarms going off for 10 seconds,(just enough for you to set about trying to find which one then the annoying problem stops. ...  I should say Oh bah Humbug!

Compressor???

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD