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They go even smaller than 0.1mm. McMaster-Carr sells a 0.051mm drill bit for $25: https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/ https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/ That's th
by varenc 4y ago
They go even smaller than 0.1mm. McMaster-Carr sells a 0.051mm drill bit for $25: https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/ https://www.mcmaster.com/8904A11/
That's the absolutely small I could find, though I suspect specialty vendors have even smaller ones. You can find MMC's other micro drill bits here: https://www.mcmaster.com/micro-drill-bits/ https://www.mcmaster.com/micro-drill-bits/
My only experience with these was in school where we used 0.25mm micro end mills (like a drill bit that cut sideways) to cut our own PCBs. A small desktop micro CNC would just cut the traces out of a blank copper clad board. That's when I learned how easily these bits can break, so even though they're not that expensive you go through them very quickly.
- gaudat 4y ago>0.051mm Holy shucks... How are they even manufactured? I imagine they have really precise grinding tools to make the flutes..
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoSphinx uses laser ablation for their smallest drills (0.0030mm is their smallest catalog item, but they've made smaller as special order parts).