Anyone used this for drilling wick holes on SS decks?

[Kenho21]

http://www.harborfreight.com/38-close-uarters-drill-60610.html

Got a couple AGA T2's and like the holes drilled out. Rather than continuing to borrow my friends drill I might as well get my own if one can be had at a cheap enough price.

 

[pdib]

Since you're looking for input; I'll put this in . . . . when drilling metal, as you may already know, you want to be able to go slow. This drill is variable speed, but you don't know how delicate or precise the trigger is. It doesn't have a fast/slow setting. It's max speed is 1,500 which is pretty fast. There, now i've put that in

 

[Kenho21]

I will take that input lol. Yea the variable speed it the only thing that has me thinking about it. If worse comes to worse I could always return it.

 

[Kamoch]

I have an AGA-W and drilled out the wick hole using a 7/64 drill bit and a hand tap. It didn't take long and I use the same dill bit to wrap coils on it as it is the exact size of the wick hole.

 

[Nomoreash]

I just drilled mine out to 1/8" 2 days ago so I could us the 7/64 ceramic wicks with it. You don't need an expensive drill just make sure it's variable speed. Unless you just want a cordless you can usually find electric drills cheaper and for occasional use I prefer them. You'll want to take it slow as said above.

IMO more important than the drill..other than it being variable speed is the bit, I used a sharp Cobalt Bit. I didn't have a clamp so I had to hold it by hand which I wasn't sure about but it went fine. I took it in steps, started with a 7/64" bit which cut through easy then went to 1/8" which caught once or twice but I just backed it off and kept at it, took about 10 min.