I have seen safety wires on a lot of industrial applications and I
seem to recall they were always drilled on the flats, not the corners.
For a nut, I am not sure.
Larry
On May 1, 2007, at 3:28 PM, James F Juhas wrote:
> I have had a tool like this for drilling safety wire holes in nuts and
> the heads of bolts. I have never been able to use it successfully,
> always breaking the drill or dulling it to uselessness as it abrades
> against the angled flat.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3y83tx
>
> Have any of you used such a fixture successfully and can you tell me
> how
> it's done?*
> *
>
>
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