{"id":2582,"date":"2018-08-20T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-08-20T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:21:53","slug":"irwin-unibit-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/irwin-unibit-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"IRWIN Unibit Drill Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been easing into more and more metal work over the last year and half (propane art, collapsible fire fans and fire hula hoops a la Burning Man), so I drill a lot of multi-size holes in aluminum tubing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00004THYY\/cooltools-20\">This is by far the best bit I&#8217;ve found for drilling through such thin materials<\/a>. To get precise placement and a clean hole, normally I&#8217;d drill a small pilot hole, then run a larger drill bit in that hole to get the size and placement right. With this bit, I do not need to create a pilot hole (though, a center punch can help). I simply drill until I get to the right size (1\/4&#8243; and 1\/2&#8243; mostly). Because the bit has a single flute (cutting edge), it makes very clean holes. It&#8217;s also very accurate:  the bit is very stiff, so it wanders less when starting a hole. Since I don&#8217;t need to change drill bits in my drill press to successively drill larger holes or change the jig I&#8217;m using to hold the part, it&#8217;s become a real time saver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision drilling for larger holes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[1350,969,1010],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32056,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/32056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}