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**365drills** · 06-04-2008

We produce guides from 6mm to 65mm (any larger and they are difficult to control) and the reason they are made of soft plastic is to protect the diamonds on the drill and to mould / fit to the exact size of the drill.

when guide plates are used for too long and they will begin to wear away. Thats why we try and say to remove it after a few seconds of drilling.

I think the drills might be lasting longer than we claim!

I did look at making the guide stonger (IE swapping HIPS plastic for NYLON) and increasing the depth from 3mm thick to 9mm thick. But we are sure our market niche is for disposable short life kits so we are sticking with that.

The long life market is taken up with ARMEG and RUBI and so we dont really want to be there. Macrist are trying to take them on so there are enough people in the "top end bit".

At the moment we are in the final week of getting it ready for retail (exciting stuff). We believe we have the component lifespan right and so all the energy is being focused on packaging and presentation.

I'll try and get some info together so we can make a proper website announcement of the retail thing before May-2008

**enduro** · 07-04-2008

Ordered my drills on Friday but it doesn't look like i will have them by Wednesday for drilling my tiles.

**Sir Ramic** · 07-04-2008

Its only Monday today.

**enduro** · 08-04-2008

They sent them today, and it said i takes 2 days by royal mail post.
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Well my drills arrived today, for my job tmro..Thanks 365Drills

**Sir Ramic** · 08-04-2008

Dont panic

**enduro** · 09-04-2008

Well what can i say about these drills, got to the job this morning and the foreman said the plumber cant drill those tiles 12mm porcelain tiles, i said i have a diamond drill that will do it no problem, thats what he had the foreman said....Panic set in then, anyway the plumber turned up and around 10am we were read to drill the holes, by this time we had quite a crowd of guys watching to see me fail, so i put my 8mm drill bit in my drill put the gauge on the wall and started to drill...AND GUESS WHAT IT DID IT, thanks 365Drills

**365drills** · 10-04-2008

Always good to know the drills perform as well as (or better than) expected.

Porcelain tiles are a tough nut to crack so we cant scrimp on the diamonds on the tip of each drill.

I've had the same scenario where a whole room full of people appear to see what these drill will do.

I went to a job where the tiniest bathroom was filled with sparkies, chippies, the designer, the tiler, the home owner, his wife and a couple of contractors waiting to see what would happen. Its a bit scary when they are all watching and waiting to see what happens.

Just as well they work eh !

The "Bathroom Fitters Kit-MAX" Seven careully selected drills in five sizes

eatsmice · 26-04-2008

After loads of reading on this site, I fell for the ruthless marketing! Thank goodness I did. Used the 16mm bit today and it left perfect holes for my heating piping.
First tiling job using large format tiles and was nervous of splitting them while drilling (before laying). Now have no fear at all and looking forward to doing the holes for the shower pipes.

Cheers.

eatsmice · 27-04-2008

Thought I'd add a bit of info.

These were Le Piezza "Porcellanato" tiles (500mm x 330mm x 9mm). Cut the tiles to 7cm width before drilling. Drilled flat on a workmate bench using a cordless driver at "screw" speed with constant flow from a hose. The cut took about 5mins at that speed, but the bit stayed pretty much cold throughout. I need to cut a total of 6 16mm holes in these tiles hence the slow speed, but I'll happily take advice if this is an unnecessarily slow speed?

Perfect cut to run Hep2o plastic radiator pipe through. Added a pic of the drilled tiles.

PS It was the Bathroom Fitters kit I bought.

**Dave** · 27-04-2008

I think you can use a faster speed than that as long as you keep it cooled with water as you say.........

**365drills** · 27-04-2008

You are doing all the right things to get the maximum life out of the core and the most numbers of holes.

Providing you keep the core cold (max warm) you should
get the proper life span.

DONT : Heat the core. Drill too fast. Apply too much pressure.

DO: Keep the core cool. Drill at setting 1 on a hand drill. Apply gentle pressure.

If the tiles are not fixed and you can drill them outside its easier to apply a continuous water supply via a hosepipe - over a drain etc.

If the tiles are fixed (and vertical) Then holding a wet sponge under the core will cool it down plus it will collect the dust at the drill site.