[TowerTalk] re Grinding hole in thick steel plate?

john at kk9a.com john at kk9a.com
Mon Sep 7 15:50:44 EDT 2015


The easiest way to elongate the holes is with an end mill in a milling
machine but since that is not an option that you wish to use, a 1/4 shank
carbide burr in a die grinder works pretty well. Of course wear eye
protection and watch for slivers.

John KK9A



To:	"towertalk at contesting.com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject:	[TowerTalk] Grinding hole in thick steel plate?
From:	Rich Hallman - N7TR <rich at n7tr.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Sep 2015 18:33:22 +0000

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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