Drilling a bigger hole

[impostor71]

My latest VK has 4 tiny little holes. The draw is harder than how I like it to be. I've read that some people have drilled larger holes. Are there any particular drill bit for a Dremel or drill that is best to use?

Thanks!
Tom

Tom

I hear you, I sent samples to china, exactly what I wanted, but, of course, they did not listen. Next shipment should be darn near perfect though.

Steve

 

[impostor71]

Just an update. I bought a Dremel Precision drill bits set for $7 at a hardware store and used the 3/64" bit to drill out 2 of the holes, making them bigger. Now the auto-batts draw much easier and works really well for me.

This is what the kit looks like

 

[shall]

yeah since no one was going to post I was going to say you sure wouldn't want much bigger.

 

[impostor71]

Yeah, that's about as big of a hole as I want. Anything bigger would not work bc there won't be enough pressure to activate the auto battery, I think.

 

[shall]

Can you show a pict of your battery with the bigger holes? That should be huge compared to the original holes. Also have you noticed a negative effect of doing this?

 

[SMILIN]

My latest VK has 4 tiny little holes. The draw is harder than how I like it to be. I've read that some people have drilled larger holes. Are there any particular drill bit for a Dremel or drill that is best to use?

Thanks!
Tom

Tom
I hear you, I sent samples to china, exactly what I wanted, but, of course, they did not listen. Next shipment should be darn near perfect though.
Steve

 

[impostor71]

I hear you, I sent samples to china, exactly what I wanted, but, of course, they did not listen. Next shipment should be darn near perfect though.
Steve

All you can do is try to tell them. Sometimes they listen. Sometimes they don't. =)

Can you show a pict of your battery with the bigger holes? That should be huge compared to the original holes. Also have you noticed a negative effect of doing this?

Shall - Here are a couple of pics. Both the blue and green each has 4 holes, no slot. I left the blue one untouched since I promised it to JenJen. In the green one, you can see the larger hole and a crappy dremel job I did to give it a slot. I think the combo of the home-made slot and bigger holes made the difference.

Besides the easier draw, I noticed that it took the auto batt about a second before it turns on. I'll live with that 1-sec loss. =)

Tom

 

[AZAndy]

Finally! An actual mod for the VK! Nice job, imposter, it looks good.

 

[impostor71]

LOL! I don't know about it looking good AZAndy. But it certainly does the job. =)

 

[AZAndy]

It certainly looks better than the 801 passthrough I had to grind a hole into to access the microswitch. Sadly, it's dead and buried or I'd show you a picture.

Maybe not so sadly, come to think of it.

 

[shall]

Thats cool and looks pretty nice too. Im taking it the slot is for the carts that are also flat.

 

[impostor71]

Thanks! All my cartos from Steve have the slot (more like a slight depression). But even then, I'm not getting enough air. So I made a slot on the battery post. =)