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[TowerTalk] Grinding hole in thick steel plate?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Grinding hole in thick steel plate?
From: Rich Hallman - N7TR <rich@n7tr.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 18:33:22 +0000
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I had a ¾ inch steel plate made up that will be used to retrofit a HDX589 base 
foundation to a HDX572 base.   After giving both bases to the machine shop and 
asking them to make sure all of the holes are exactly the same location as the 
base, some of the holes are 1/8 to ¼ inch off.   I had a major issue with this 
machine shop so I will not take it back for now.

I wanted to see what others have done to grind out holes in thick steel plate.

I was looking at the Carbide Burr bits and getting a ¾ inch burr bit to see if 
that would grid enough from the hole so it would then fit the bases.

The holes are pretty close....so I thought grinding them out would be the best 
solution for now.

Any thoughts?

Thanks....Rich

Rich N7TR
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