How to drill through stainless steel?

[Gman]

What to use? how difficult? Any tips really, need to make a small hole to fit a baffle.

[robedwards99]

Get a center punch and smack it with a hammer in the centre of where you want the hole to make a little indentation.
Then just get the righ sized metal drill bit and drill away!
Nothing much to it really, just make sure your drill bit is as sharp as possible else it will get too hot.

[Rene7FD]

And use low revs and push as hard as you can

[antnicuk]

dip it a cup of water every 10 or 15 seconds to cool it and pulse the trigger on the drill but as mentioned above, push hard.....

[Gerry M]

small drill bit high speed, preferably a stainless or cobalt bit althou HSS will do shouldnt have to change the drill taper

[OLSKOOLROTAR]

dip it a cup of water every 10 or 15 seconds to cool it and pulse the trigger on the drill but as mentioned above, push hard.....

Or use some old engine oil. If you have a friend have them squirt oil onto the drill bit while your attacking the stainless. How thick is the metal your wanting to drill through?

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Jase

[Donato]

Oil is better than water for cooling hot metal as it is not as stressfull on the metal, it also clings better.