Reply To: Elgin Outboard Impeller swap

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CHUCK wrote:

Some of those driveshafts are hardened steel.  Was it difficult to drill?

I spot drilled them with a machinist “center drill” on the milling machine,
the switched to the size drill bit I wanted. I managed to drill the first
hole to depth, about .200, but the drill wouldn’t touch the other
hole, nor the other four bits I tried, lol.
I ended up using the center drill to go to depth, which worked okay,
but I had to use a larger diameter pin than I intended, which
may have been better anyway.

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