I am plasma cutting out plates with 6mm holes, what's the best way to mark the hole locations so I can accurately drill them out to size later. I remember reading something about not piercing but just making a mark (they mite of called it pecking) and then drilling by hand later. Does anyone know a good way to mark holes under .250" (to small to cut out with a plasma cutter) and drilled out later with drill press. Thanks fflen 1010 Plasma
It's not hard to do 6mm holes with a 1/8" or 3mm endmill if your program supports spiral cutting, but we've seen people use a center drill bit to mark out hole locations for later drilling. Cheers Gary
I've used a 'spotting' drill for this in the past on my spindle machine, but I guessed that the question was about plasma - @fflen Can you confirm either way?
