Best drill bit for vinyl
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Do NOT use an auger
Do NOT use a boring bit
Do NOT use a self feeding (screw tip) bit
While a high-steed steel bit can be used (in fast speed, low pressure), I'd use a step drill bit if your a novice. A step drill bit is pretty safe for acrylic/vinyl, it won't draw the material upwards as it has no flutes, and also creates a perfectly round hole (high speed bit holes are mis-shaped).
Get a 1/4" step bit (AKA stepper bit).
High speed, low pressure on the drill. No oil req'd.
Do NOT use a boring bit
Do NOT use a self feeding (screw tip) bit
While a high-steed steel bit can be used (in fast speed, low pressure), I'd use a step drill bit if your a novice. A step drill bit is pretty safe for acrylic/vinyl, it won't draw the material upwards as it has no flutes, and also creates a perfectly round hole (high speed bit holes are mis-shaped).
Get a 1/4" step bit (AKA stepper bit).
High speed, low pressure on the drill. No oil req'd.
LOL.. thanks and the opposite is true. Grumpy wife Grumpy life.. Hey since you know more about Electricity than I do about .. well anything can you tell me what you "personally" think about this idea I have.. I am the one having a Ring camera on the outside of my garage and the junction box on the inside.. Although it might not be to code, I am thinking of puttin a GFCI in the junction box just in case "somehow" water gets insid the light fixture. Why it might not be to code is that it would be inside the junction box. I would always rather be safe than sorry. 14 gauge wire = 15 amp gfci
BTW, thanks for all your great knowledge
BTW, thanks for all your great knowledge
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A camera is what we call "extra low voltage", so the voltages present in camera's are not such that you need worry about human shock hazards nor fire.
You mentioned a camera, then a light fixture....not sure what your putting outside in front of the garage?
- If its a camera, don't worry about it, as said above.
- If its a light, you needn't worry about it neither, but if you want to connect it downstream of a GFCI, you can. It is odd to stuff a GFCI into a closed junction box. Remember that the GFCI has a reset button....to reset it, you'd have to remember its in the box, and thereby open the junction box to manually reset. If you do use a GFCI, use what we call a "dead front GFCI".
14AWG and 15a GFCI is fine....All good.
Good Luck....let me know.
You mentioned a camera, then a light fixture....not sure what your putting outside in front of the garage?
- If its a camera, don't worry about it, as said above.
- If its a light, you needn't worry about it neither, but if you want to connect it downstream of a GFCI, you can. It is odd to stuff a GFCI into a closed junction box. Remember that the GFCI has a reset button....to reset it, you'd have to remember its in the box, and thereby open the junction box to manually reset. If you do use a GFCI, use what we call a "dead front GFCI".
14AWG and 15a GFCI is fine....All good.
Good Luck....let me know.