[ARC5] Hole for octal socket ... Try Unibits

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue Feb 3 14:34:30 EST 2015


On 3 Feb 2015 at 12:40, David C. Hallam wrote:

> Have you priced Greenlea punches lately?  The D, square, and shape types 
> are out of sight in price.  Unless you have lots of special holes to 
> make, they are impractical.  Even the round ones are priced too high for 
> the average home brewer.

Who amongst us has enough money to buy any of those NEW? I sure don't, 
and even if I had, I wouldn't.

>  I have a good set of the round hole ones that 
> I have picked up over the years at garage sales, flea markets, etc. 

Yes. I found several at our local university's surplus. I even found some in a 
dumpster.

> For 
> larger holes I use a fly cutter in my drill press.

If you don't have a drill press, fly-cutters are almost impossible to use...

Ken W7EKB


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