You might think that it would be easier to drill because the garage door is so thick than thinner steel springs. But this isn’t always true either! To help make your life easier when drilling thin steel springs, we have put together 5 step-by-step instructions for how to drill thin spring steel!

Drilling a thin steel spring is not an easy task. If you are drilling a hole in your garage door, for example, the thickness of the metal will vary depending on where you drill it.

How To Drill Thin Spring Steel?

Here are the steps on how to drill thin spring steel:

Step 1: Prepare the drill bit

You need to prepare the drill bit. Put the drill bit in a vice and then use sandpaper to remove all rusts from it.

Step 2: Set up your spring steel correctly on vise

You need to secure your thin spring steel on the working surface. Then you can apply pressure while drilling using a clamp or pliers until you get through it completely and smoothly without any problems at all.

Step 3: Make sure that the work area is flat enough for drilling process

It will be better if there are few holes already available so that this way should not take too much time nor effort when doing the job perfectly well with no mistakes made whatsoever during such important task of removing rust off of metal material by hand-drumming method working fine well.

Step4: Drill the thin spring steel using a metal drill bit and an electric drill or hand-drill machine

You need to use a metal drill bit. The important thing is that you should apply enough pressure on the spring steel while drilling it until you get through without any problems at all whatsoever.

Then, do not forget to wipe off all rusts from the surface area before moving ahead with this step next for doing such task perfectly well successfully to avoid mistakes made during such important task of removing rust off of metal material by hand-drumming method working fine well.

This will make it very difficult if there are still some rusts left on it even though after a few minutes already given for preparing things needed beforehand like deciding how to set up the thin spring steel on your working surface, checking whether there are few holes available for doing the job perfectly well successfully without any problems at all whatsoever.

Step 5: Polish the thin spring steel after drilling it

After getting through with your task of removing rust off of metal material by hand-drumming method working fine well, you need to polish its surface area so that all surfaces will be smooth and shiny without any problems at all whatsoever.

Then, do not forget to wipe off again before moving ahead for doing such a task perfectly well to avoid mistakes made during such an important step next.

In conclusion, if you want to drill thin spring steel, make sure that the work area is flat enough for the drilling process. You can also read our post about how to remove a broken drill bit and how to put a hole in wood without a drill.