The Trouble With Drilling Titanium:The Endcap

**bstanga** · Jul 21, 2016, 02:08 PM

**DIYer** · Jul 24, 2016, 03:18 AM

Thanks bstanga! We've added your Titanium Drilling Method to our Drilling and Drill Presses category,
as well as to your builder page: bstanga's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Titanium Drilling Method by bstanga

tags: drilling, gunsmithing, titanium

**Christophe Mineau** · Aug 5, 2016, 10:16 AM

Hi bstanga ! You should update the post with your second video which gives actually the method : 70 rpm, lots of coolant and back and forth.
I am in the process of making some rings out of Titanium, but I am very scared with that, I need to drill 20 mm ...
I will try anyway, I will tell after ...
Thanks any way, it's great to share your work !
Christophe

**bstanga** · Aug 5, 2016, 11:10 AM

This method seems to work!

**bstanga** · Aug 5, 2016, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Christophe Mineau

Hi bstanga ! You should update the post with your second video which gives actually the method : 70 rpm, lots of coolant and back and forth.
I am in the process of making some rings out of Titanium, but I am very scared with that, I need to drill 20 mm ...
I will try anyway, I will tell after ...
Thanks any way, it's great to share your work !
Christophe

Will do Chris, for your ring I would get a hole just big enough to get a boring bar with carbide on it.
good luck
Brian

**Christophe Mineau** · Aug 8, 2016, 02:14 AM

Thanks for the suggestion Brian, I agree.
I also saw someone not really boring the whole inner stuff , but digging just a groove at the tip, corresponding to the inner diameter of the ring, then parting off. He shapes a special carbide tool for doing that.

I am yet more scared, having read since that the chips can be easily flammable, especially if I try to grind the Titanium.
Have you any experience regarding that ?

**bstanga** · Aug 8, 2016, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by Christophe Mineau

Thanks for the suggestion Brian, I agree.
I also saw someone not really boring the whole inner stuff , but digging just a groove at the tip, corresponding to the inner diameter of the ring, then parting off. He shapes a special carbide tool for doing that.

I am yet more scared, having read since that the chips can be easily flammable, especially if I try to grind the Titanium.
Have you any experience regarding that ?

From my experience running over 450 RPM's and producing a small chip could result in some fire action. I keep the rpms down now and a small bucket of sand near by just in case. Below is a clip of some Titanium being lit.

https://video-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/...32&oe=57A903F5