{"id":20287,"date":"2025-03-23T22:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20287"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:42:30","slug":"daily_3673_-_i_made_holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/03\/23\/daily_3673_-_i_made_holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3673 &#8211; I made holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3673_holes_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I proudly present to you these holes I drilled all by myself! I&#8217;m rather pleased with my drilling precision, given that this is my first time with metalwork.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3673_holes_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The drilling was rather less straightforward than the sawing and filing. My first attempt with a standard metal drill bit failed. After a long struggle, I had nothing more than a tiny divot to show. (This is a trial hole in one of the sawed-off pieces, hence why it looks so sloppy.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3673_holes_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weekend after I went off to Bauhaus and bought drill bits made for high-density stainless steel. This weekend I put them to use, and the difference was immediate. With them, it was no struggle at all to drill through the steel pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I proudly present to you these holes I drilled all by myself! I&#8217;m rather pleased with my drilling precision, given that this is my first time with metalwork. The drilling was rather less straightforward than the sawing and filing. My first attempt with a standard metal drill bit failed. After a long struggle, I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20287"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20294,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20287\/revisions\/20294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}