Drilling vs. Boring

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

My understanding is that typical drills aren’t suited to spinning at the speeds which the Nomad can maintain torque in harder materials.

There are specialty mill-drills which may suit your application, but they tend to be pricey.

Have you considered our:

#282Z 2mm Single Flute ZrN

I’ve had excellent success w/ it in 6061 alu.:

Mafell Spindle with manual tool change FM 1000 PV-WS

Making a mounting plate for mine: [WIN_20210307_21_55_21_Pro] Almost got it centered, and aside from that and the two “test” holes the cut went fine — hopefully it fits as well as the acrylic test cut did. Here’s the file — should fit to an HDZ and the Mafell FM 1000 WS: hdzplate_adjusted_274.c2d (154.6 KB) Here’s a slightly adjusted version based on a test fit of the file above: hdzplate_adjusted_274_v2.c2d (123.1 KB)

(albeit in a Shapeoko w/ Carbide Compact Router)