Re: Drilled rotors

[i6941TB@gnn.com]

Hi David. You are asking:

>Igor,
>You drill the rotors yourself?
>I guess you've got access to a drill press.

Yes I do. You need more than just a drill press. I use a precision digital 
Bridgeport(mill/drill combo). After you are done calculating the patterns (I 
am talking about quite a bit of mathematics here) you will have to implement 
them on a dividing head. All in all is still a piece of cake.
I have everything blueprinted, if you ever decide to do this on your '87 
5000. For a smaller rotor you'll have to do the calculus yourself.

>IS the steel especially hard?

Its cast iron which is not all that hard, it's....soapy, so to speak. But I 
still use a 0.250" carbide drill on it. With a stream of green 
cutting/cooling fluid.

Igor Kessel
the sweetheart: 200TQ, chipped and MOMO'd through out,
in Tornado "arrest-me-officer" Red;
the ex: 5000s, the EE's nightmare
Phila PA, USA
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