RE: [MV] drilling armor plate

From: Nigel Hay -MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Oct 18 2004 - 00:22:41 PDT


On the WW2 Halftracks and scout cars the easiers way to do this is from the
internal facing side as it doesnt seem to be anything like as hard.

NIGE

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 17 October 2004 19:53
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Subject: Re: [MV] drilling armor plate

I'd be careful doing this because the heat affected zone can easily exceed
the
finished hole diameter.

-John

Rick v100 wrote:

> Dan,
>
> You could pierce it will either a plasma or a oxy fuel
> torch and then finish the hole by drilling it out.
>
> Rick

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