Plunge drill small 1.5mm holes

[rick2017]

Hi all, relative newbie, (hobbyist) here.

I've searched, but there seems to be no option (in the Drill machining) to just straight plunge a (small twist drill) directly into the work piece for small holes (in MDF / Ply).
You cant spiral drill a 1.5mm hole with a 1.5mm spiral mill. (Apart from it being too short anyway).

Any (simple) solutions /suggestions ?

Thanks,
Rick

[Bubba]

Yes you can;D. Use the 1.5 Dia tool, just tell CB the tool is 1.499 diameter..

[Dragonfly]

"Canned Cycle" is your friend Take a look at 'Drill' MOP options.

[lloydsp]

With that small of a drill, you pretty-much MUST use a G83 canned cycle with fairly short pecks.  Even in plywood, I would not peck further than 3-4mm.  The 'normal' convention is to set the peck height about equal to one drill diameter.

Yeah, with that short of a peck, it'll take what seems like an excessively-long time to drill a hole, but you're better assured that the flutes won't clog up.

LLoyd

[rick2017]

Yes you can;D. Use the 1.5 Dia tool, just tell CB the tool is 1.499 diameter..

:-)) I like the lateral thinking, that did not occur to me.

Presumably as the bit would then only move 0.001 out of concentricity I can use a 1.5mm HSS drill at fairly high rpm.
I will give it a try rather than clog / break a carbide cutter.

[rick2017]

"Canned Cycle" is your friend Take a look at 'Drill' MOP options.

I did look at that, but I was perhaps a tad simplistic expecting to see a "Plunge Drill" option. I will investigate further.

[kvom]

If I recall correctly, when I loaded CB 1.0 the default for the drill Mop was spiral mill rather than canned cycle.  I needed to modify the default style to default to canned cycle.

[Bob La Londe]

When you use a drill cycle if you want to plunge to full depth set peck distance to 0. 

As Lloyd said it seems a bit aggressive to with a 1.5mm drill bit. 

[kvom]

According to G-wizard, a 1.5mm HSS drill bit can be plunged up to 4mm deep in MDF without pecking.  5mm and deeper use 1.5mm pecks.  With my mill's 4000 rpm, recommended feed rate is 355 mm/min.

[rick2017]

Thanks very much to all for your help and suggestions. Bubba's suggestion worked fine using a 1.4 mm HSS drill gave me a satisfactory interference fit and the quick solution I was looking for. I will investigate the canned cycle when time permits.

Great helpful forum this!
Rick

[Bubba]

Bubba's suggestion worked fine using a 1.4 mm HSS drill gave me a satisfactory interference fit and the quick solution I was looking for.
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