[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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