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Thread ID: 102787 2009-09-01 08:27:00 Whereabout can I get an extra hole to be punched into a strap? Renmoo (66) PC World Chat
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806014 2009-09-01 13:49:00 Nothing wrong with leather straps, after all, how could a draught horse get attached to the plough without them?
Seems a bit weird to have around your arm though, considering the chemicals that a chemistry student must be messing with regularly. I suppose the chemicals knock off a few of the less hardy germs living in the leather so it's not all bad. ;)
R2x1 (4628)
806015 2009-09-01 20:00:00 Just don't wear a watch, who needs them your phone has the time on it. I can't remember the last time I wore on other than for caving since I don't take my phone underground gary67 (56)
806016 2009-09-01 20:58:00 a watchmakers for a good hole.

Or you could try Manchester St?
Cicero (40)
806017 2009-09-01 21:21:00 Or you could try Manchester St?

Good? No...sick with the watchmakers. :2cents:
wratterus (105)
806018 2009-09-01 21:28:00 Or you could try Manchester St?

I'm not familiar with the holes in Manchester St. The problem is finding one small enough.

Seriously, the hole size in mens leather watch straps will be around 1.5 -2 mm.
The methods I've used when a number are to be punched in leather or aluminium, is to get a parallel pin punch of about the right diameter or a piece of silver steel rod, and grind the end off square, leaving the edges sharp.

Drll a hole in a piece of gauge plate or other flat steel plate , clearance on the punch, this is the 'die'.

Put the punch in a pedestal drill chuck, line up the die with the punch and clamp the die to the table.

Then it is easy to punch through as many holes as one likes...........a bit much though just for one hole..............:banana
Terry Porritt (14)
806019 2009-09-01 22:13:00 St. The problem is finding one small enough.



a bit much though just for one hole..............:banana

Greed will get you nowhere Ter.
Cicero (40)
806020 2009-09-01 22:19:00 If you tell me where you want it, just tell me if you want .38 caliber or .45 caliber. SurferJoe46 (51)
806021 2009-09-01 22:35:00 Just get a borer grub (almost full grown), put him/her on the desired holy place and put a piece of tasty wood on the other side. Wait.

Plan B. Show the strap to an eight year old boy and say "I don't want any holes just there, it is a special spot". Wait. (Not long.)
R2x1 (4628)
806022 2009-09-01 23:31:00 I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill
the Albert Hall:)
Trev (427)
806023 2009-09-02 01:37:00 If you tell me where you want it, just tell me if you want .38 caliber or .45 caliber.

You lucky buggers can carry pistols we cant here yet.
prefect (6291)
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