[Shop-talk] Drilling a hole in glass?

[Neil Sherry]

I haven't drilled glass, but have done ceramics (bone chine crockery!) using
diamond hole saws - around 5mm diameter. They are pretty cheap on
Amazon/eBay (like £5 for 5). I am sure I have seen glass bits - resembling
very fine masonry drills (so V-shaped tip).
I think toughened glass would be likely to 'explode' - I have heard that it
has to be drilled before the toughening process (I had a new piece of glass
for a shower door made - that's what had to be done).
Plain glass or laminated would be more likely to be successful.
Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Shop-talk [mailto:shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Spidell
Sent: 06 October 2021 18:01
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Drilling a hole in glass?

Yes. All bad.

One thing that helps: put tape over the hold to be installed. There may be
some special bits for glass, but they're not common.

Bob

ps. Anyone else see the Fantomworks episode where they tried to drill an old
MG/TR3's--I think--windshield? The windshield exploded; turns out it wasn't
safety/laminated glass.


On 10/6/2021 9:00 AM, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> Anyone have any experience in drilling holes in glass?
>
> mjb.
>
>

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