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Originally Posted by nigletsyz
^^^ San Fran, I think you're being a little overcautious. The plastic is so soft that you don't need full operating speed of the drill to get through it. I drilled through mine at maybe 100rpms using a regular-sized hand drill. I put a piece of scotch tape over the area i was going to drill, then marked the drill points w/ a sharpie and then used a pushpin to make an indent for the drill bit. This will prevent the drill bit from sliding all over your backplate on initial contact. I had the backplate sitting on a magazine, since it countoured nicely w/ the backplate of the pearl and allowed for some forgiveness when drilling.
I disagree that a powered drill is too difficult to handle. Its pistol-grip allows better leverage than your average dremel tool. Originally I took out my dremel to do this, but decided it would be easier to use a regular drill to drill holes. I suppose this comes down to personal comfort.
This is not a difficult job. Its just drilling holes. Just use some common sense.
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That's not my point, we whom have experience with tools and have dealt with the hazards of drilling are NOT who I was addressing.
IMHO if a person is asking where to get a drill, etc. they have no business drilling their BB cover. There's some post in another thread where noobs to tools cracked their covers or scratched the surface.
I am sure to us this task could be handled with any number of devices, with eyes closed. So I don't think we should be telling the mechanically challenged to go buy a drill and have at it.
Some of those people are the same ones who could not apply those skins that cover the Pearl.
And to put it bluntly, most people do not have, as you say, common sense when it comes to use of tools. Most people I know have to search high and low for a screwdriver or hammer.
