Possibly a high pressure water cutter would do it
without the million bits as an end product. Some steel
plate supply vendors have them.
Rodolfo
--- Dan Eiland <deiland1@elp.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>
> Is it possible to drill a hole through tempered
> glass without damaging the
> glass? I have been told by two local firms that it
> is not possible, but a
> company in the UK says they know people who have
> done it but they do not
> know how. I have seen some diamond blade hole saws
> made for drilling through
> glass. If I used lots of water or cutting oil do you
> think it would be
> possible to drill two 1/2" holes through my door
> glass without exploding the
> glass into a million pieces? The alternative is to
> remove some spot welds
> holding the "C" channel onto the bottom of my
> existing door glass so I can
> weld on the "C" channel that was mounted to the
> bottom of the glass from my
> new doors. If you are wondering what I am doing that
> requires this
> conversion, I am switching my JH doors for GT doors.
> The glass is almost the
> same but there are just enough differences that I
> need to adapt my JH
> windows to fit the GT doors. I am hoping some of my
> friends between the
> three lists will be able to give me enough
> information to at least keep me
> out of trouble, and if I am lucky I will find a way
> to make this all work.
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
> Dan Eiland
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