Another chapter in the chip-drilling saga...
Ben Pfaff
pfaffben@msu.edu
07 Oct 2000 19:57:19 -0400
So I was at Meijer today and decided to take a look in their
drill bits aisle. Hey, look--"MIBRO INDUSTRIAL Glass carbide
drills have uniquely sharpened edges for easy penetration of
glass, mirror and ceramic."
Perfect! Now I can cut a hole in that Pentium chip. So I get it
back home and C-clamp the chip to the edge of my desk. I even
lubricate the chip with water as the package advises. Drill on
low. Vrrr, vrrr, vrrr.
And 5 minutes later I have a perfect hole... that penetrates no
more than 1 mm into the chip. Shoot. I guess this is better
ceramic than ceramic--not even the drill bits *designed for*
ceramic cut through it.
Have to keep thinking about it, I guess, or find someplace that
sells diamond bits...
--
"It takes a certain amount of shamelessness
to be a monomaniac billionaire dwarf."
--Jon Katz <URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/17/1634238.shtml>