drilling square holes?

maybe theres a special tool, but is there an easy way to drill the square holes neatly that are required for all these numerous plastic rawl-plug fixings all over a landy?

So far I've been using a regular 5mm bit and tilting it off square on the two diagonals which makes a kind of rounded square bur frankly its a bit ****e.

(surprising just how different a Td5 bulkhead is to a 1988 jobby)

small file after drilling the hole or buy a hand operated nibbler and work your way out from the hole..........how thick is the steel?

quite sensible and obvious really! (bulkhead - think its about 2mm steel)

Oman - jeez I'm jealous of you...

muddythelandy said:

Oman - jeez I'm jealous of you...

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I'll swop........too hot today, 44 deg C.

duno - if they do the correct size fur ya - but Q-Max do a range of square cutters. see here

If it's only the bulk head your doing just drill em using a drill slightly smaller than the A/F size of the square an open the hole up with a square file, worked a treat with mine. I'm still trying to find somewhere local that sells the insert things.

OI Grunt mate ov yours was looking fer yer last night goes by the name of jakabite. check out the Honk Honk thread

hey who where?

GRUNT said:

hey who where?

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http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f20/honk-honk-47046.html here ya fickko

Anno I found it.

As Daff says Q cutters are the best.

could you use a plasma cutter

a 5000 watt laser would sort that out

and a huge solar collector array, concentrated on a square shaped point and aimed at my bulkhead..

I'll go with the drill followed by some filing action.

DK17 said:

a 5000 watt laser would sort that out

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so your back nob jockey

or find a round way of fixing wot yer trying to fix