Drilling holes in IGO L posts question

[paladinx]

I am having a real big issue connecting my coil to the screw posts on the IGO L. For some reason my igo the posts seem bent inward with not much room to work with. I really would like to drill holes in the posts like the IGO s to make my life easier. I keep having problems with glowing red posts when i fire it etc..

Has anyone drilled out their posts .. if so any tips or advice how to do it properly?

regards

 

[Myk]

Mine was with the fasttech clone but it was easy. Just a regular old 1mm drill bit I get at the hardware store. It was very soft metal. I barely had to center punch it.
Although I'm a jeweler so I have a Flexshaft and drilling with 1mm drill bits is something I've been doing for a very long time. Go slow, ease up on the pressure before it breaks through.

Don't drill too low. Pull your screws and measure how long they are. If you do drill too low turn it 90° and redrill higher. (This is from experience.)

Drilling the cap was what took cobalt and carbide bits.

 

[paladinx]

Inside the posts its completely hallow? There isn't a point where to drill the holes so the wire makes a contact with a soild piece on the bottom? And do you drill the holes all the way through to the other side?

 

[gotalotgoingon]

Inside the posts its completely hallow? There isn't a point where to drill the holes so the wire makes a contact with a soild piece on the bottom? And do you drill the holes all the way through to the other side?

While I have never drilled my posts out before, I read about somebody that did and they said the posts are threaded all the way down so they are hollow.

 

[Myk]

Inside the posts its completely hallow? There isn't a point where to drill the holes so the wire makes a contact with a soild piece on the bottom? And do you drill the holes all the way through to the other side?

Drill all the way through. If you have the wire going all the way through it will get pinched in the threads when the screw goes beyond the bottom of the hole. My clone screws didn't go all the way to the bottom and didn't go through the bottom of one of the sets of holes I drilled so the wire wouldn't get pinched.

Because of the wall on the base you probably can't drill exactly at the bottom even if your screws are that long. I think the center of my holes are 2-3 millimeters down (rough guess looking at it).

 

[paladinx]

Thanks guys.. So basically try to get more near the bottom but not so far down that the screw doesn't make contact.. Im really a carto tank guy.. I find cartos the best.. but im trying to make the igo L work..I watched videos and all this stuff, but I can never get it to work better than the cartos.. Im always getting hot spots etc.. the silica tasted like crap to me, so now im using cotton and like that a little better.. Thanks for your help guys.. I guess if i screw up the holes.. i still could use the screw on top right.

 

[Myk]

I'd say mine was closer to the top than the bottom, but my screws are pretty short. I was trying to line the holes up with my air hole which is pretty low and that was too low for my screw to pinch the wire.

I'd hold a screw against the post and figure a thread or three higher than the bottom of the screw and drill there.

If you don't have a slow drill I'd drill by hand with a pin vise. Those little bits are easy to break.

 

[darkzero]

I have but it's not exactly that easy. I can't offer much advice on how to do it cause I drilled them with my mill. I have a real IGO-L & the posts are SS. I don't have a clone IGO-L but I would think the clones have brass posts like all the other clone atties I've had.

The posts aren't completely hollow but that's not the imporant part. You want to drill the holes into the threaded section of the posts so that the screws can still screw in far enough to secure the wires.

Only because the posts are SS I wouldn't recommend trying it unless you have a good way of securing it while drilling. I wouldn't use a hand drill that's for sure. If you have a drill press & a vise you should be able to do it. I would center punch or spot drill first before drilling the holes. I can do it for you if you want.

 

[darkzero]

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[paladinx]

Sorry about that man. I didn't even realize the inbox was full. They need to freaking give u a big message or a warning to let you know. My apologies

 

[Firesurge]

I know this is an old thread but I am having the same problem. Anyone have any luck drilling the post with simple tools? Dark zero do you charge for your services?