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How to fit LED or Lights into very hard porcelain tiles with diamond holesaws or tile drills
Here at 365Drills we are sent many projects and this is the latest to land on our office desk. Its a complicated drilling pro project to drill holes and install LED lights into large tiles. Take a look at how a simple task becomes rather difficult!
Above is the LED light the customer requests us to install into his tiles. The drilling width is 83mm and the outer ID is 85mm That means there is only a 2mm tolerance for this job. If we are out be even a few mm then the whole tile is ruined.
The next problem is that we only supply either an 80mm or 85mm holesaw so that complicates the issue.
We cant use the 85mm or the light will fall through. So we will have to drill out an 80mm inner ring and then grind a ridge into the tile for it to fit.
This is our drilling machine. Its different to most bench drills because the head can be adjusted forwards or backwards to increase the gap from the stand to the center of the tile. This allows us to drill large format porcelain tiles.
In fact VERY large tiles!
We measure out the center of the tile and check for accuracy.
The 80mm diamond holesaw is clamped into the chuck. The LED light is in shot.
Now we start to drill the inner ring.
This is the PORSADRILL 80mm diamond holesaw starting its work. You can see the external pencil marking for the LED light and the internal groove of the tile starting to form.
Things are getting hot so water is added via sponge to cool the diamond crown or holesaw and also to keep down dust off the bathroom tile.
Measurements are taken from the back of the LED where the clips or lugs are located.
A smaller diamond drill is used to bevel the edges inwards so that the lugs will slip into place.
If you are doing this work one consideration is to actually file off the plastic lugs and just go with the inner ring.
Use adhesive to hold the LED in place. For most people its probably easier to remove the plastic lugs and fit the light into the hole that it is to ream out holes for them.
But we are good at our work so its not a problem!
After drilling very carefully the lugs are eased into the circle. The LED is a perfect fit...
And here's your finished article... One LED flush fitted to a bathroom tile.
This is how the finished tile looks with the LED FINISHED.
At an angle. So you can see the light is flush to the tile.
Job done!
To see a more indepth look at this project you can visit our website. It forms part of 20 projects to do with drilling holes into tiles.
Main Website. (including all 20 projects)
This project in much more detail using 30 photographs instead of the 10 you see here
Above is the LED light the customer requests us to install into his tiles. The drilling width is 83mm and the outer ID is 85mm That means there is only a 2mm tolerance for this job. If we are out be even a few mm then the whole tile is ruined.
The next problem is that we only supply either an 80mm or 85mm holesaw so that complicates the issue.
We cant use the 85mm or the light will fall through. So we will have to drill out an 80mm inner ring and then grind a ridge into the tile for it to fit.
This is our drilling machine. Its different to most bench drills because the head can be adjusted forwards or backwards to increase the gap from the stand to the center of the tile. This allows us to drill large format porcelain tiles.
In fact VERY large tiles!
We measure out the center of the tile and check for accuracy.
The 80mm diamond holesaw is clamped into the chuck. The LED light is in shot.
Now we start to drill the inner ring.
This is the PORSADRILL 80mm diamond holesaw starting its work. You can see the external pencil marking for the LED light and the internal groove of the tile starting to form.
Things are getting hot so water is added via sponge to cool the diamond crown or holesaw and also to keep down dust off the bathroom tile.
Measurements are taken from the back of the LED where the clips or lugs are located.
A smaller diamond drill is used to bevel the edges inwards so that the lugs will slip into place.
If you are doing this work one consideration is to actually file off the plastic lugs and just go with the inner ring.
Use adhesive to hold the LED in place. For most people its probably easier to remove the plastic lugs and fit the light into the hole that it is to ream out holes for them.
But we are good at our work so its not a problem!
After drilling very carefully the lugs are eased into the circle. The LED is a perfect fit...
And here's your finished article... One LED flush fitted to a bathroom tile.
This is how the finished tile looks with the LED FINISHED.
At an angle. So you can see the light is flush to the tile.
Job done!
To see a more indepth look at this project you can visit our website. It forms part of 20 projects to do with drilling holes into tiles.
Main Website. (including all 20 projects)
This project in much more detail using 30 photographs instead of the 10 you see here
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