I would’ve thought of cobalt bits and a drill press first. Never thought about how hard tile is though. I’ll have to keep this in mind.

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Worked great on my cast iron piece. Had no luck w titanium or conventional carbide tipped bits that I tried and broke or dulled. Even tried Dremel with diamond cutting tips to no avail. The stone/tile worked great, following the drill bit mfr instructions to use hammer drill at high, not low, speed- which was totally different than what I’ve read widely. Thank you so much for this valuable tip.

Nickel is a ductile and ductile metal that can be rolled into a thin foil. Tensile strength 40-50 kgf/mm2, tensile strength 8 kgf/mm2, yield strength 12 kgf/mm2; relative elongation 40%; modulus of normal elasticity 205 Gn/m2; Brinell hardness 600-800 Mn/m2. From absolute zero to 631°K, ferromagnetic physical properties are retained. Ferromagnetism is due to the structure of the outer electron shells. For the same reason, alloys and a number of nickel derivatives (oxides, and compounds with halogens.) are magnetically ordered with a ferro- and rarely a ferrimagnetic structure. Under normal conditions, the crystal lattice has a β-structure with a face-centered cubic structure (a = 3.5236. But after cathodic sputtering in an H2 atmosphere, the lattice acquires a dense hexagonal structure (a = 2.65 [pic], c = 4.32 [pic]), which converts to a cubic structure above t° 200 °C. Nickel with a cubic lattice has a specific gravity of 8.9 g/cm³, melting point 1453 °C; boiling point 3000 °C; specific heat capacity (t° 20 °C), melting point 20 °C. Heat capacity (t° 20 °C) 0.44 kJ/(kg-K); temperature coefficient of linear expansion 13.3x10-6 (0-100 °C); thermal conductivity at 25 °C 90.1 vml (m-K)[0.215 cal/(cm-sec-oC)].

Thank you! This is the info I was looking for after having unsuccessfully tried to cut through hardened carbon steel in every possible way. I also tried a plasma cutter on very low current in order to punch that damn hole, or at least the beginning of it, but no way – even a slightest steel residual in the hole basically makes it impossible to drill through it with every bit I own. I will try the granite bit for sure.

It is the carbide in tip of the tile-drill that makes the magic happen. That specific magic is being harder then the material to be cut.

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Thanks for sharing your journey in finding the right drill bit for hardened steel. It’s surprising that the solution was a bit designed for granite tile! Do you think the success of this drill bit is due to its specific design or the material it’s made from? And do you foresee any long-term wear issues with using it for hardened steel repeatedly?

He dragged a file across the linkage and quickly came to the conclusion that the steel was actually hardened (and not so much by me). Next, he annealed it with a TIG welder.

Awesome info. I’ve been a heavy equipment mechanic for 40 years. Always great to learn more to make a job (and life) more easy ! Thanks for sharing.

I needed to drill a hole through hardened steel—in this case, the piece of steel was what was left of the lower shift lever on a steering column.

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You never tried the M42 8% cobalt drill bits ? This is the industrial standard for drilling hard steel. https://drillsandcutters.com/1-60-cobalt-steel-jobber-drill-set-60-pieces/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA4NTxBRDxARIsAHyp6gAVLrm4xT-K5i72Yj6M1rDntyFbCPrCl_pk-LA5LepPAb_2X7wN3JAaAtGIEALw_wcB

Once cooled, the column shaft was clamped into the vise of a Bridgeport mill. The end result (following several attempts—all with more annealing) was a small dent in the hardened shift lever using a 1/8-inch bit. That ‘dent’ measured approximately 0.010-inch deep. It wasn’t looking good.

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The second bit I tried was titanium-coated. The guy at the tool supply shop said it would absolutely, positively, 100-percent drill through hardened steel. It even said so on the package. Both the tool guy and the package were wrong. It didn’t work.

Thank you sir for your effort to make this blog. I went to HD and got some carbide tip masonry bits for stone and glass and though they don’t last more than four cuts each, if you get the four pack of 1/8″- 5/16″ you can stretch the life of each bit to get around four full 5/16″ holes in 1/4″ hardened steel ‘T’ Rails . Four 5/8″ holes makes one full corner of a Deer Fence. This was a prayer come true for me, literally. God bless.

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Since I had a hammer drill, I figured I had nothing to lose. I was certain this would work. The guy at the tool supply shop agreed. After all, a hammer drill provides plenty of grunt. I bought and tried the fancy hammer drill bit. And it didn’t do any better than the others. Obviously, brute force wasn’t going to work either.

Found this post while researching drill bits that will go through metal. I had an experience like this yesterday. Tried every bit I had to no avail. Then I found this bit we used to drill through ceramic tile. It was really beat up and looked horrible but I tried anyway and it did the trick. Went where no bit had gone before. I need a new one because I have a lot more holes to drill and I messed that bit up drilling through the tile.

I searched the internet for answers. I found a bulletin board post where someone said a masonry drill bit would work perfectly for my dilemma. I bought a masonry bit. Unfortunately, that didn’t work either.

All of the screws on my ar15 are hardened steel and the torque screws wont come out I’m gonna try this and hopefully it works. Thankyou

I highly recommend you try one if you have to drill through hardened steel. For a closer look at the drill bit selection I went through in the process, check out the accompanying photos.

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The chemical properties change with temperature. When heated, nickel reacts with SO2, NH4 and nitrogen oxides and, as a finely ground powder, with CO to form carbonyl Ni (CO)4. Thermal dissociation of the carbonyl produces the purest nickel.

Ever drill through porcelain tile? Decades ago I ruined a few bits doing that until using a diamond bit from Grainger. All I know is 1) LOW-MODERATE RPM on the drill of choice with Moderate to Heavy Force. 2) Did I mention LOW RPM (“feel out” your drill, bit and material and make adjustments) 3) Cup of WATER to dip the bit in every 5-10 seconds of drilling. Don’t wait for the smoke, Steam from the bit is ideal, just re-dip. I only use oil/lubricant in certain applications. 4) Keep debris out of the Hole with a small pick or canned air. 5) Start with a center punch to index the hole then ALWAYS make a Starter/Pilot Hole. 6) 5/16″ Hardened Steel Center Punch then 1/8″ Cobalt 135° pilot point bit, progress up 1/4″ etc… Mayhew Center Punch DeWalt Cobalt Alloy Steel Bit Pilot Point 135° (I also use High Carbide or Solid Carbide) DeWalt 3/8″ or 1/2″ Variable Speed Drill Get’s you through 95% of Hardened Steel ?

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I knew going in that by cutting (with a cut-off wheel) and grinding the linkage it would work harden. That didn’t seem to be too big of a problem because I could anneal it after trimming it to shape.

Worked like a charm. Nothing made a dent in the hardened galvanised steel. I had to drill 22 holes and still going strong.

Deep bow to this advice. Unfortunately, I went through the same struggles as this gentlemen, trying to drill a broken tap into a hole. The granite drill bit mounted on a Dremel went through the tap like butter.

In terms of chemical activity, this metal stands between the noble metals and iron. In compounds, Ni is most often divalent. In the form of powder actively absorbs H2, CO, but when saturated with gases, loses its mechanical properties. When heated up to 500°C, it reacts with oxygen. Finely dispersed powder is pyrophoric - it is self-igniting in air. NiO oxide is greenish crystals, insoluble in water (the mineral bunsenite). When burned in sulfuric vapor, it forms sulfide Ni3 S2. Monosulfide NiS is made by heating NiO with sulfur. Nitrogen does not interact with this metal up to 1400 °C. Nitride Ni3 N is formed by heating powder Ni with nitrogen (t ° 445 ° C). In red-hot phosphorus vapor forms phosphide Ni3 P2. With arsenic, the compoundsNi5 As2, Ni3 As (the mineral maucherite) and NiAs. The NiAs lattice has a hexagonal arrangement of arsenic atoms, with Ni atoms squeezed in between. This structure is typical of many metallides. The unstable Ni3 C carbide is formed after long (hundreds of hours) carburizing (carburizing) of powder Ni in a CO atmosphere at 300 °C. The molten nickel easily dissolves carbon, which is released as graphite when cooled. With the loss of graphite, ductility decreases.

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The steering column was a three-on-the-tree assembly converted to a floor shift application with a new bowl, but parts of the shifter linkage remained. The idea here was to trim the remnants off and then drill a hole in what was left so that it could be safety-wired shut.

Finally, while rummaging through various drill bits at Home Depot, I spied a goofy-looking one with no flutes that is designed to drill through granite tile.

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How about that! This worked for me. I had a sprocket I needed to open the rollpin size up to 3/16. None of my carbide or titanium bits would touch it.

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After that, my options were to package the part and send it to a specialty shop for EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) to accurately arc-machine the hole for $200, or to buy different 1/8-inch drill bits and try again myself (using each of the three drills used before).

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In the process, I tried pretty much everything in my tool chests. I tried to drill the hole with three different drills—a conventional 3/8-inch Makita variable-speed electric, a Mac Tools air-powered drill, and a ½-inch Makita hammer drill.

Nickel is chemically less reactive than iron and is more resistant to acids and moisture. It reacts with organic acids only after a long exposure. In hydrochloric and sulfuric acids dissolves slowly, in dilute nitric acid - easily, and concentrated nitric acid passivates nickel, though to a lesser extent than Fe. Acid salts of nickel are bivalent. Almost all of them are highly soluble in water, where they give an acidic reaction. Only the salts of carbonic and phosphoric acids are poorly soluble. NiSO4 sulfate crystallizes as emerald green crystals of nickel vitriol NiSO4 x7H2 O. When calcined to 800 °C, almost all of the nickel salts decompose. This metal is resistant to strong alkalis, but dissolves in ammonia solution in the presence of (NH4)2 CO3 with the formation of intense blue solutions. Selective ammonia formation is used in the hydrometallurgical extraction of nickel from ores.