Cable raceway

[NateDogg]

Interested to hear other people's ideas about drilling cable raceways in external doors
for mortice locks.

Personally I free drill them with the door braced on its lock and hinge face. However, I am also aware of the SDC raceway drill and doing it with custom drill bits but, curious to know if there are other ideas out there?

[Privatteer]

Generally wedge the door. Then free drill starting with a shorter drill bit.

[bet2win]

I use a one piece auger drill bit so that it has no flex in it. I have used speedbors/spades but have to make sure not to flex them.

I try not drill a hole any bigger than 10mm so that the door is not structurally weakened with a hole too big in diameter.

[NateDogg]

I use a one piece auger drill bit so that it has no flex in it. I have used speedbors/spades but have to make sure not to flex them.
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Funny, I used to use a long auger bit but I've changed to a custom speedbor/spade bit. Do you find the auger easier than the speedbors?

[Chimp]

phone my locky and get him to do it