[TheForge] Drilling stone

[Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer]

Don, Chinese Diamond core drills cheap and effective in hard stuff...build a little clay damn around the hole and fill it with water...put the core drill in a slow drill press and pulse ther pressure so the water can get under the bit...break the core loose when you.ve gone down the depth of the bit and repeat.....pete f

-----Original Message-----
>From: PlumDon at aol.com
>Sent: Dec 10, 2007 12:33 PM
>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [TheForge] Drilling stone
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>My Main Line customer wants a boot scraper in the shape of a canary  (Her 
>small mansion is "Canary Cottage"). No problem making the  scraper. She also gave 
>me one of her driveway Belgian blocks to mount it in. My  pretty good 
>Milwaukee hammer drill doesn't even dent this stone. I dont know  what they are 
>typically cut from but it is REALLY hard.;
> 
>Anyone know of a way to drill it or should I just try to convince her I  need 
>to use another stone. 
> 
>Kindest thanks for any help. 
> 
>Don Plummer
>
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