How to make a hole in a belt: 4 easy ways

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Whichever option you choose, the process will take no more than a couple of minutes.

Let's say right away: if you are not a handyman at home, then the most competent option would be to bring the belt to a shoe or sewing workshop. There are the necessary tools here, so that specialists will punch a new hole in just a second and almost free of charge. Moreover, they will make sure that it coincides in diameter with the others, and its edges do not fray and do not go cracks.

But if there is no time for the workshop, and a new hole in the belt is urgently needed, you will have to act independently.

First, use a pen or marker to mark the point where you want to make the hole. And then choose one of four ways and proceed.

How to make a hole in a belt with a professional punch

The full name of this tool is leather hole punch. It can be purchased from stores that sell craft and repair supplies, or ordered online.

The tool is a pliers-like hole punch. As a rule, it has cutting elements of different diameters, so that you can make a hole of a suitable size - so that it does not differ too much from the "native" holes. If you can't decide between two options, choose the smaller one.

Place the strap between the two moving parts of the punch so that the spike covers the point marked on the strap. Squeeze the tool handles firmly and sharply.

Release when you feel that the punch has completely gone through the material. The hole is ready.

How to make a hole in a belt with a large nail

Or a nail-punch, if you have one: it is a metal tube with a sharpened edge, the diameter of which corresponds to the diameter of the required hole.

Place the belt on a piece of wood at least 1.5 cm thick. A cutting board will do.

Place a nail or punch with a sharp point at a predetermined point. Hold the rod vertically with one hand, take a hammer with the other and hit the head several times until the metal passes through the belt.

How to make a hole in a belt with a drill

Install a drill of a suitable diameter in the drill - about the same as the diameter of the existing holes.

Place the belt on a block of wood. Set the point of the drill at the pre-marked point and drill until you go through.

Then turn the accessory over and repeat the operation on the other side, inserting the drill into the hole made.

Please note that the hole after such a procedure will not look very neat.

To give it a finished look, remove the drill from the drill and heat over the stove. Hold the metal with pliers or you may burn yourself.

Then insert the hot drill bit into the finished hole in the belt. Thus, you will solder, make its walls smoother.

How to make a hole in a belt with an awl or Phillips screwdriver

Place the belt on a block of wood. Set the tip of the awl or screwdriver to the pre-marked point.

Press the tool into the accessory. If necessary, turn the awl or screwdriver without releasing the pressure until you have pierced the material through.

For accuracy, the finished hole can be processed with a hot tool, heating it over the stove.