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Why kerosene?
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It’s very low viscosity, which means low drag (it won’t spray much from the bit like heavier oils) and it has good thermal and lubricant properties.
I drilled through the bottom of an aquarium with a hand drill and a parabola-shaped Silicon Carbide grinding point. I went slow, and used water as coolant. Worked great.
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WEAR SAFETY GLASSES AND OR A FACE SHIELD. A bit of glass in the eye is painful and very difficult to see to remove. See a proffessional eye care specialist if you should unhappily find yourself in this predicament.
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I’d amend that to the full face shield and the plastic glasses underneath, instead of the And/OR. Your eyesight is critical, but once thats protected its time to think about facial lacerations from flying glass.
Declan
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ]
Why kerosene?
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'Cause that’s what my grandma advised … and likely because we had kerosene for the lamps, but no light mineral oil.
w.
PS - and of course what Q.E.D. said.
I do stained glass. I have an attatchment on my grinder to drill holes. I have also done it with a diamond tip on a Dremel tool. Be sure to have it under running water, or the heat generated will break the glass.
[QUOTE=picunurse]
I do stained glass. I have an attatchment on my grinder to drill holes. I have also done it with a diamond tip on a Dremel tool. Be sure to have it under running water, or the heat generated will break the glass.
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Just like I posted in post #2 - we used petroleum jelly because it was room temp and the glass never broke…water could make it too cold and the heat/cold difference tended to break the glass.
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For what that technique would most likely accomplish in the hands of a novice, a rock would be even easier.
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I actually just did this recently. I heated up a beer bottle with a Mapp gas torch and made a whole in it with a flower stem (becuase that’s what was near me). This wouldn’t work for the OP though as the it wasn’t a clean whole, it’s was more like a one inch cirumference divit about one inch deep with a whole in the middle. It’s looked more like a funnel.