RFQ: 3 x M5 holes drilled and tapped/ +/- 0.01mm required

[Swarfing]

Silly question now but why don't you treat yourself to a pillar drill and centre punch and a clamp? at least you would a nice tool to use over and over again. I would not bother to do it any other way except in a drill cycle on the cnc. There does not seem like enough holes to bother setting up for that?

[neurofen]

its a really good idea but just lost my job so very skint :(, its something i'll invest in later in the year when things are back on track..)

i may have made a break through though at the weekend after posting this thread: im trying to get my cnc finished(this job was for one of the last parts) and may well have found a way of supporting the router well enough to do this myself now, im going to give it a go..

thanks to http://www.protocnc.co.uk/gallery.aspx for the message, extremely handy to have found someone fairly locally

wish me luck