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Have plenty of new drills (if you can't sharpen them) fast drill speed & slow & steady.

Lee

Fast speed =heat

Fast + pressure =more heat

Fast+pressure+ blunt drill=disaster.

 

Slow speed.. Minimum pressure... Sharp Bit=minimal heat.

 

Water or watever lubricant/coolant you choose to use is too late, the damage can already have been done.

The solution to the problem is not to have to cool it down in the 1st place.

Idealy 1 person drills with another person drip feeding cutting lubricant onto the bottom of the drill bit with a mini/micro oiler of the type used for clocks.(but hey, who has that amount of time and spare staff).

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Technically that’s wrong hugh. In engineering as a rule of thumb, the smaller the drill the higher the speed, having the correct faster speed reduces friction, giving less heat.

 

Recommended Twist drill speeds (into steel)

 

1/16” - 3/16” 3000rpm

1/4” - 3/8” 1000rpm

7/16” - 5/8” 600rpm

11/16” - 1” 350rpm

 

Its always the bigger the drill the slower the speed not the other way round. small drill + slow speed = friction / higher heat

 

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Well I should not be........I can see myself through the mirror, and yes I can confirm it is I.

 

now to redo the original post that went into cyberspace.

 

Never knew about the speeds for different sizes Lee.

Yer learn something new every day.

My references are for drills around the 1/2" size.

Never had the oportunity to use a slow speed on stilettos, the drills then were one speed only.

Well that means I'll have to ammend the history books on shoe repairing now, anyone got a box of Tipex Pens :D :D

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Yep, thats it folks. Another fine mess I got myself into. :D

And why I was still invisible. added email too.(wow i'm really going to town :D )

Now back to Gucci. There must be an agent in the UK for these, have you emailed Gucci?

 

hi hugh,

 

i'm back and with my dummy firmly stuffed in my big gob for the moment, :lol: to be truthful i was a man down last week and had to work 6 days flat out and was too knackered to be bothered with this there intraweb...

 

i have a place to send the gucci's to, recommended by a kind member of this forum by PM.

 

my customer is perfectly happy for me to deal with the problem after the new year as i don't want the problems or stress of things going missing the the very busy xmas post.

 

thanks to the people who helped me with this minor problem and :smt019 to the boo boys.... :lol:

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Lost another post.. dont know where thats just gone :evil:

 

Pleased you got it sorted happydude.

If you send them to FHI (I think this was who was recommended) ring and ask for Garth, tell him the forum members have recommended him and you will post the pics of the job on the forum, you may just get the job I know he is capable of. (unless he's moved on to bigger things)

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Glad your back Dude. I wasn't a boo boy [-( :D I merly pointed out that the responsibility was yours, as that was what you seemed to be asking in the first place. Anyway hope they turn out ok for you...If not I'd be happy to help you out with them.

 

Merry Christmas. :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114 :smt114

 

 

biting firmly on my dummy...... :smt114

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Lost another post.. dont know where thats just gone :evil:

 

Pleased you got it sorted happydude.

If you send them to FHI (I think this was who was recommended) ring and ask for Garth, tell him the forum members have recommended him and you will post the pics of the job on the forum, you may just get the job I know he is capable of. (unless he's moved on to bigger things)

 

 

not FHI, i don't want to say which company publicly or who sent me the info as it may spark debate over how good/bad they are and affect my confidence in them. :smt017

 

once i've had the job done i'll report back with the results good or bad... :smt111

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it took a fair bit of charm on my side to get this far so i hope the end result is worth it... :mrgreen:

 

Thats just what you were missing in your first post Happy Dude, We all make mistakes, but its what you do after that will stick in the customers mind.

At least you have had the gumption to sourse an answer to the problem. Fair play to you for that. You may not have had a happy ride in this thread but at least you got what you needed in the end...good luck, hope it all turns out for the good. :wink:

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i have read this thread more times than i care to count nd i still come to the same conclusion and that is ,no matter which way you cut it the responsabilty is yours and the folling reasons are what i base my conclusions on. if acustomer brings in a pair of shoes for repair the fist thing you should do is examine them for any pitfalls that may arise this includes worn down pins .split heel blocks, thin heel walls and if you find any of these hen you point it out to your customer and explain what the pitfalls are and that you will make every effort to avoid any any damage . this rule applies to all shoes regardless of the value of the shoes be it £25 or £325.

secondly if a pair of shoes happen to miss this inspection then it is still your responsabilty to insure that no damage is done to the shoe in every stage of repair, i have on a number of occasions come across this myself and the first thing i do is stop working on the shoes then put them to one side untill he customer returns and explained the problem and told them that they can still be repaired but it is not at the same price becouse it going to involve a bit more time and work to do them 99% of the time they will thankyou and accept the price and walk out smilling knowing there shoes are in good hands

now for my final rant ,i have trained up a few peaple from scratch and also employed experienced shoe repairers and also trained shoemakers in repairs but no matter what experience they had they all got the same pep talk which goes as follows if you make amess of apair of shoes tell meand i will rectifie them and show you where you went wrong so that it doesnt happen again and that will be the end of the matter but if youmess up a pair and dont tell me then standby for the biggest askicking and the cost of the rectifecation comes out of your pocket not mine

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