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I've done some reading around in the forums and I plan on using the 3/16" black carriage bolts to mount my joysticks but I'm wondering how to drill the hole for the carriage bolts. I've seen in some threads that carriage bolts have a square or hex block under the head. Do I have to use a countersink bit to make space for the square block under the head or can I just drill a normal hole to mount the carriage bolt ? I have a feeling this has been discussed on this board before but I couldn't find it.
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If you are using a wood Control Panel, just drill the hole and when you tighten it, the carriage bolt will sink in and create it's own square.
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If you're wanting to sink into metal or platic, I recommend drilling the hole, then squaring it out with a grinding bit in a dremel. If you try to tighten the bolt into plexi it will, more likely than not, crack.
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Hmm.. now that I think about it I am going to mount the lexan on the cp using carriage bolts. Is there a special router bit or dremel bit I can get to make holes for carriage bolts ?
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