Bashar's Spacecraft Engine

[Uniqorn]

WTF, that is one beautiful piece of work!

Don't forget to get 'at least four' of those inner wires touching that central copper rod...  ;-)

[WTF]

I won't forget. 

[WTF]

Had to order a stand for dermal as drilling the 1mm holes with drill press is too slow, tried to drill them holding the dermal but after drilling 1 of the holes about a centimetre through the practice crystal I can see the hole would have been out of line with the rod. Depending how much damage is caused when the drill bit comes through the 6mm hole, if not a lot I might be able to fit 6 holes in, but I won't know until I do the first hole.

[Uniqorn]

Had to order a stand for dermal as drilling the 1mm holes with drill press is too slow, tried to drill them holding the dermal but after drilling 1 of the holes about a centimetre through the practice crystal I can see the hole would have been out of line with the rod. Depending how much damage is caused when the drill bit comes through the 6mm hole, if not a lot I might be able to fit 6 holes in, but I won't know until I do the first hole.

There's no particular reason you need such a small diameter. This will just make it very difficult. Why don't you go up to a 2 or 3mm drill? Bashar didn't ever say the wire had to fit the hole tightly, just that it had to penetrate.

This is your choice:
Tight, small hole = difficult
Loose, larger hole = easier

Seeing as Bashar doesn't specify either way, why not choose the easier way?

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The smaller the hole the less damage there will be when the bit comes through the other side, also I might be able to fit more holes than 4 which could increase performance.

Bashar did say touch and penetrate, now I don't know if he meant the wires should touch the outside of the crystal or that as the wire penetrates the crystal it should touch the sides or maybe both, but just in case I will do both.

When I drilled about a centimetre with the 1mm drill bit it seemed easy so I don't foresee any problems, after all the drill bit must have been designed to drill that deep without snapping. 

When I do something I always like to do my best, I can't expect anything else, it's just the way I am unfortunately.

I have faith and lots of patients