Drilling Immersion Training

Skills learned:

Basic Training Exam (after 1 hour hands-on Training, 3 hours of practice):

1. Understanding safety risks of drilling
2. Understanding the geometry of a drill bit
3. Determining sharpness of a drill bit
4. Determining whether a drill bit is drilling properly
5. Intuitive feed rate setting for various materials
6. Sharpening a drill bit via drill sharpener
7. Sharpening drill bits by hand on a bench grinder
8. Sharpening a drill bit that has been broken in half
9. Determining hardness of a material
10. Drilling through sheets of material - steel and other
11. Drilling through 1/4" and up materials
12. Drilling with mag drill, floor drill press, hand drill
13. Drilling with masonry bits
14. Using a drill for materials mixing
15. Selecting from other techniques of producing holes (torching, hole punching, CNC cutting)

Capacities Learned:

1. Safe and efficient drilling through any material of any thickness either in-situ or on a working table, including ability to sharpen drill bits by hand.

Advanced Training

1. Exploded part diagram description of a drill press, hand drill, and mag drill
2. Drill Bit Fabrication with a grinder attachment either on a mill or lathe
3. Heat treating of regular steel to make hardened steel for drill bits.