Build a hole punch yourself for belts

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It often happens that a belt has somehow become too short (or too long). Although there is still a good length of leather left, there are no more holes to match. Then the belt can continue to be used if you simply fill in the missing holes. You need a hole punch with the correct diameter, which you can also make yourself.

Belts have always been important to people.
Belts have always been important to people. © w.r.wagner / Pixelio

What you need:

  • Round steel
  • Grains
  • drilling machine
  • Hacksaw
  • Bench grinder

The belt is like new but does not fit

  • One is attached to the good piece, would like to keep it, but something has happened with the scope that makes it impossible to use it. Now you can buy a suitable punch in the tool shop, which is then in the corner after one use, or you can help yourself and build one.
  • If you make sure that the diameter of the holes coincides with the existing ones, then the change on the belt will only be noticed by the initiated. Only at the end of the belt do you have the restriction that the last hole can only sit as far out as the buckle allows.

How a simple hole punch is made

  1. Take the diameter of the original holes and get a piece of round steel that is double the diameter. The iron should be at least 10 cm long so that it can be handled easily. Now use the center punch to mark the center of an intersection as precisely as possible.
  2. If the interface is squashed, saw off a centimeter with the hacksaw so that you get a flat surface. You clamp the iron vertically in a clamping device and drill a hole with the diameter of the original holes. The depth should already be 10 mm, this is where the punched-out discs from the belt collect.
  3. ribbons Position the point with the hole in it on the bench grinder so that the edge around the hole becomes evenly thinner and thinner, until an almost sharp, pointed edge is created. The sharper and thinner, the cleaner the hole punch will cut. However, if there are nicks, the punch will only partially punch out the holes.
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  4. After a few holes, which you create with light hammer blows on a block of wood (end-grain wood), pull the leather remnants out of the hole punch with a pointed tool. Too much in the hole prevents further holes and makes uncoiling more difficult.

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