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Drilling holes in a belt

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  • 25-05-2012 12:36am
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    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭


    Anyone successfully done this? If so, how? Not sure the mils of the belt but it's a powerlifting one, two prong. Fourth hole is gone too tight, third too loose.


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    Hanley
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    J-Fit wrote: »
    Anyone successfully done this? If so, how? Not sure the mils of the belt but it's a powerlifting one, two prong. Fourth hole is gone too tight, third too loose.

    PeoPle have done it successfully. Apparently a boot maker is your best shout for it.


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    the drifter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Hanley wrote: »
    PeoPle have done it successfully. Apparently a boot maker is your best shout for it.


    As hedelyyy said boot maker type people

    I got mine done in a shoe menders...


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    token
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    I did this with a single prong bodybuilding belt I got off Irish Lifting. I got a medium sized belt but I wasn't medium enough for it so I got a power drill and put another hole in it. The DIY superstar that I am.

    EDIT: Actual it's double prong but still skinny and not equivalent to a powerlifting belt.


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    rubadub
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    Drilling can be tricky, ideally it should be punched out, but most hole punch things you get might be too weak for a thick belt. Though of course the pros will have good ones, I have proper punches in work to go through steel. Another trick we have used is to get thin wall metal tube, hold it up to a belt sander and spin it around so the edge is razor sharp, then hit it with a hammer to go through.

    If you are drilling I would advise you try it somewhere else on the belt first as a practise, if it is all frayed after drilling you run the risk of the hole growing.

    A soldering iron might do it too, again I would practise elsewhere on the belt first, best on an end section that is never under stress.


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    J-Fit
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭J-Fit


    Thanks lads, I think I'll avoid the DIY option and take it to a shoe guy. Don't want to make a dog's dinner of it.


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    Edwardius
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    Drilled a 10mm PL belt with a dremel, there was no fraying or damage but it was a pain in the ass.


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    Hanley
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    Dead Ed wrote: »
    Drilled a 10mm PL belt with a dremel, there was no fraying or damage but it was a pain in the ass.

    You got drilled in the ass? no wonder it hurt.


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