Hey! I'm Jay from Ohio Power Tool! We get a lot of questions every day about what is the right tool
and accessory for drilling holes and metal and really there are a lot of different applications,
thickness gauges of metal, uh, different size diameters that you're going for. So we're going
to take a look at one inch holes through a couple different thicknesses of metal, a couple different
applications, and we're going to just test them out and see which is the fastest, which
is the easiest, but before we do that-- please like and subscribe and we'll get right into it!
First we have Diablo. We have a bi-metal and a carbide tooth. Um, woo!
We also have Milwaukee hole-dozer carbide, so this is a 49-56-0707.
All right, third we have a Hougen high speed annular cutter, so this is a part number 12132, so
this is a one inch, uh, depth one inch diameter. We're going to use this with the mag drill.
All right, another really popular option from Hougen--this is the Rotacut. And this last option,
uh, is a Champion brute platinum, this is a silver & deming bit. XL12-1, so
these are kind of like the old-school way to drill through metal, so we'll see how that does.
All right, so just did some testing there. Um, obviously we used some some bits and in
things they're not really meant for, but I just wanted to kind of go over some of them. So,
bi-metal and carbide hole saws, I mean, they're designed to go through wood and metal, yes. Um,
much better in thinner metal, sheet metal. They'll last all day in wood. Um, carbide
gives you better performance and it, the big thing, is it's just going to
last a lot, lot longer. So if you're using it correctly, um,
it's going to give you many, many times speed of a bi-metal, it should also be faster.
But it, as we saw, I mean if you start putting them in thicker metals, uh, you can you can
toast them pretty easy. This Rotacut really performed better than... I thought possible.
I mean it just zipped through the I-beam with a, you know, a standard cordless drill. Uh, it was,
you know, this was kind of our test to see how things compare to a mag drill.
Obviously a mag drill is going to cost $800 - $1,000
for a decent mag drill, um, and they go up from there. So the fact that you could use
this, I mean typically this is for thinner metals, not I-beams, but it actually went through that
one pretty impressively. Uh, and then, again, silver and deming bit--you can see how much fun
it is to go through sheet metal... Obviously you would never use this for sheet metal, uh,
again, you're removing the entire material of the one inch, or you know, they even go larger,
so you're just removing a lot more material. It's not a great solution
for sheet metals and then on the I-beam we just quit after five minutes so, um,
it's it's not really a great solution for anything. It's kind of the old way they did
things. Uh, again, these are just a few very specific solutions and applications. Check out
our website for more information. We have a lot of information about drilling metal, we have a lot
of options for accessories and tools, and don't forget to like and subscribe! Thanks for watching