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bkenobi
Explorer
Aug 23, 2019

Time to install tires on my truck camper setup

I have a 2016 Ram 3500 LB SRW CTD that is stock (suspension, tires, etc). The truck carries my Northern Lite truck camper (around 4000 lb total payload) around half the time. With the stock setup, the...
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Grit_dog
Navigator
Aug 27, 2019
Kayteg1 wrote:
Drilling hardened steel is not that hard if you follow simple rules
-industrial drill bit sharpened at wide ange
-low speed, high torque drill
-lot of cooling fluid
-good and steady pushing force
Lot of guys put the bit in high-speed drill and wobble that during the drilling.
All that does is dull the bit.


But it sucks upside down under your truck, by hand.
Scratch the cooling fluid when drilling upside down too.
Careful use of a floor jack as an ad-hoc drill press helps though.

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