Fabric covered Austin 7’s

["Slack Alice" Simon]

Just to emphasis the risk of drilling through polyester fibre:

First, it will wind up the poly in the area and so ruin the finish of the body, requiring removal of the fabric and starting again.

Then, it will snap the drill bit.   I have had it snap a 3/8 drill bit.

Use a bradawl, or cut out, as said above, but make sure the cut out area is totally free of poly.

If I remember, I run the drill backwards.

THAT'S THE BIGGEST PROBLEM: remembering, a week or a year later, DON'T DRILL THE BODY!

Simon