Thursday, 1 May 2014

Drilling the prop shaft hole

Its Done !!

Was pretty easy.   Had a couple of minor problems

1.  The auger bit I am using has had a home made extension welded to it.  The actual auger is only about 6 or 7 inches long.   So once the hole gets deep the saw dust didn't get cleared out and instead backs up in the hole and compacts. So that caused the bit to get stuck a couple of times.

2. I didnt put a block on the inside so that the hole could fully form. I was able to back the drill out, screw on a block and then finished drilling the hole.


So I now have a 1" hole. Tomorrow I'll send a follower through to bore it out to 1.5"


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