tile drilling

[lawrenso]

Hi Guys

How do you remove the cores from the drill bit?? Having a lot of problems doing that at the mo

Cheers

Steve

 

[Deleted member 1779]

There is a bit of a knack (and some do's and donts)

The main thing is to try and drill out only the tile and nothing else behind. The core should pop out with gentle persuasion from the core ejection slots we provide in every size bit.

Dont drill into tile adhesive, plasterboard because this tends to gum up the barrel of the smaller drill bits (6mm and 8mm). The soft material seems to compress in the barrel if you try to force it back out. That leads to difficult ejection.

Each holesaw is fitted with core ejection sockets

To remove a core use an allen key to poke out the tile

Larger cores have more areas available for access.

You will often find that the fixures and fittings you are installing are supplied with allen keys. Useful for getting into diamond drill cores.

Do try to drill ONLY the tile and not beyond

Try not to break the plug during drilling. If you snap it off at 90% drilled then the plug can rotate in a 6mm drill. This makes it tricky to pop.

Try not to drill anything other than tiles. Softer material gums up the internal barrel.

Hint: If you give up and are stuck with a piece of tile inside a core then you may want to abandon the poke out. Just push it to the back of the barrel. Use that core to "start" holes and swap over to clear barrel cores. Also you can stack the cores inside the barrel of a drill about four or five times depending on tile depth.

 

[Dan]

Don't mind me while I bump up some of the old threads. I wont be doing this much more. Just the last few in the Tile Drilling forum - How to Drill Porcelain Tiles. Just one of the many tiling advice forums.