making your own is not easy

go get a dremel and remember measure twice cut once

did mine with a sawzaw.. first a drilla little hole... thena big hole into it... making sure not to crack the lid... it is true that it is easy to ruin them... anyway... sawzaw worked great for me and it cost 19 bucks at walmart... i also used it to cut the other holes in my cab... good luck

I wouldn't recommend using brute strength and blade, that's just going to lead you to cut yourself or damage something else. The tools are available at local stores to help you work smarter, not harder.

naw man not a fork.it was some garden clippers and a dremmel.

with a dremmel I can get through a bucket in a minute, just keep at ti and maybe change the head on the dremmel..... keep working on it man

Wow,.....I would say that the hole-saw is by far the tool of choice.....just point and shoot.....it's simple, fast and what it was designed to do. I just drilled 24 holes this evening in less than 2 minutes, not 2 hours and they are all perfect.

guys lets think here. SHEERS!. yea shit for cutting sheet metal.

Metal holesaw ?

3 x the the wooden price but available everywhere
And i hope u have more than a 12v cordless hehehehe


skaos

haha are you serious? Start lifting man, or buy a sharper knife.. or both. Cause thats kind of sad..

OGdreams said:

try going to frys or some electronics store and get a cheapo soldering gun and take a hammer and flatten the tip, then use it like a hot knife and cut away

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A cheap 25W soldering iron will do instead of a gun, which is usually 100W or more.

Hammer the iron tip flat- and you have a hot knife, great for making large dia holes in plastics. If it is too hot and smokes instead of just neatly melting a clean cut in the plastic, you can always dial the temp of the soldering iron down by putting an incandescent light dimmer in series to the AC mains supply.

Rubbermaid containers are made from a rather pliable plastic that will cooperate with holesaws a lot better than the brittle plastic found in cheapo dollar-shop storage tubs. If you try to cut a cheapo tub with a holesaw, it will split or shatter.

I HEART my Dremel. A Dremel with a small drill bit, run at high RPM and drawn sideways along the cut line will also work to melt a cut in some of the more brittle plastics, but if the bit jumps in the work, it may split or crack. A sanding drum in the Dremel is great for cleaning up and smoothing out cuts made by any means.