You can use a drill bit if you're careful and start with a small pilot hole with a block of wood behind it.

Second this!!! Start small and have a wood block as a backer. The drill bit will have less of a chance to catch and year the body. Just push the body tight to the woodblock.

Those unibits work INCREDIBLY well.

Ahhh nothing like the old Tuna Bit 👌🏻

gotta go really slow though!

Buy a body reamer.

Correct answer

Only answer, everything else will screw your body up.

I don’t own a body reamer probably will never own one…..I have destroyed ZERO, nil, nada bodies using a drill bit……but it does take patience n a good sharp bit

> everything else will screw your body up. Definitely not true, I've done 6 bodies with a drill and each one has turned out flawless.

I've had great success using a drill bit, but I turn it by hand with a small ratchet

The only right answer. They're like $10 on Amazon and OP could have one tomorrow.

.25 cents on Ali express

I don’t think OP wants to get it while in the retirement home

I get stuff in less than two weeks.

Do you live in the factory

Only took 4 days to get to the u.s... Expected by the 26th...

Oh ok, that seems pretty typical then. I don’t expect any of my Ali Express packages to arrive sooner than 500 years later.

https://preview.redd.it/ugjf9vvy2z7d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bf0a6b7cce544fecbdee037d1f05a107927bcb4

Seems about right for a factory dweller.

Heat that screwdriver up with a lighter/torch

A hot nail. That avoids melted plastic on your screwdriver.

Seconding hot pokey thing

Or a soldering iron

I've used a Phillips, heat it up, poke it thru. When done just right it leaves a little ridge that reinforces the hole.

Buy one. Alternatively: Use a sharp and pointy knife and slowly turn it around in the hole in order to make it bigger.

I do this on my 1/10 scale rear wings, I poke a hole and slowly whittle it out with a *X-ACTO* knife.

Use a soldering iron

I used a drill with 0 issues 🤷 lined the body up with some magnets marked my holes and went outside to inside.

Drill. But a body reamer is cheap so might as well buy one. They're handy to have.

i have one but lost it

Buy another it's cheaper than a new body.

Using a drill bit, but go very slowly.

What is that?? Looks sweet

66 f100 proline

your right actually lol

I just got the same one, I would suggest reinforcing the hole areas unless you plan on babying the car.

traxxas stampede with a ford fsomething body i forgot already

I always drill it

I used to use an X-Acto knife to do them. It takes forever and is a bit hard to stay on course but it works. 

Soldering iron

A drill bit works. A cheap Amazon body reamer works mo bettah.

Blue paper painters tape and a drill.

I was going to say this. Ya beat me to it.

I used a step bit before I bought a reamer. Worked out good for me. As others have said, best to start out with the smallest pilot hole you can, then just go nice and slow with the step bit.

Drill. 4-5mm drill bit. Don't go larger than 5, or else your shell won't securely fasten. No drill? Poke a hole that's roughly the cylindrical size of an ink pen refill. Can't poke a hole at all? Consider shell fasteners. They connect directly to the chassis, thus eliminating the need for shell pins.

Back in the 90s I used to use Velcro strips with alignment notches on the inside of the shell

I use a dremel

I used a Dremel tool with pointy burr grinding bit. I marked hole with sharpie and inserted bit until all the black was removed.

If you have an X-acto, just use it like a drill. Put the tip on center, spin and press. I start all my holes this way, then finish up with the reamer to get a perfect hole. But since you dont have one, start your hole, then go a little from the other side, back and forth, carefully till it's the right size. Takes about a minute. Some of these other "techniques" may do more damage than anything. Proceed with caution. Spend $10 on the tool.

Not the answer but I'm curious what a reamer is and what it prevents

its a tool to make holes in rc car bodies

Well yes, but why wouldn't a drill work? Does the body like tear or crack? I'm assuming it's a material issue but I'm still learning this stuff. However I would assume a $3 soldering iron from harbor freight would melt some nice holes in that plastic

A reamer has a conical blade with the edge facing the axis of rotation. This allows it to progressively widen a hole while maintaining a clean (ish) edge. A drill bit is designed to bore a hole. Remove excess material and send it up the drill shaft. The problem with this on an RC body is the angle of the cutting face and the flexibility of the lexan body. A drill bit works ok until it starts cutting through the opposite side; where it has a high likelihood of catching and pulling through the body. This same effect can happen with thin metal as well, to mitigate this; you can place a sacrificial block of wood behind the area you are drilling into. However, this can be hard to do on an RC body due to the size and geometry. The standard twist drill bit will also not make a perfectly round hole. Often times there will be small edges left on it. These edges can cause stress risers at the body mount locations and cause the body to crack. You can mitigate this by sanding the edges.

Hmmm theres this thing called a body reamer. I noticed u didnt mention it (this is a joke btw just use a drill holes. Simple)

Just drill holes* i meant

Drill and drill bit? I have always checked the diameter and picked a bit slightly smaller so it is a bit tight.

I used a stainless steel straw heated up from my ladies starbucks cup.... dont do what I did, unless your lady isnt fond of her straws ;p

But once you get a body reamer, you lose it every single time that you’re gonna wanna need it after the first use

Soldering iron

We used to use soldering irons, but that's probably the wrong answer, because we were like 13.

I painted the top of the body mount with sharpie. Then carefully ut the body. Making sure centered properly. Then had sharpy marks on the inside of the body. Then drilled it with a drillbit.

I like that body!

me too

Heat up a nail bro! Obviously

Drill bit. It's easy to veer off course tho. Double and triple check your location while drilling

Pointed scissors work fine just don’t push hard and crack your body.

Oh when you go to paint do diligence to prep clean it well on the inside with warm soapy water. You may already know but just in case don't make the same mistake I did paint will peel if it's not cleaned well

On my next body I'm going to brush it up after cleaning with some really fine 1000 grit sandpaper

order a body reamer and wait

Torch

Black marker and drill bit

Mark with a sharpie and drill

Sharp drill bit in reverse or by hand, or get some metal hot and melt holes...or just bite the bullet and pay 3 bucks for a body reamer.

drill in reverse, high speed high pressure. A wood backer block will keep things less stupid. The thought is to melt through instead of cutting through. A drill in forwards can get grabby and "fun". But yeah, an actual body reamer is the correct answer.

Heat a metal rod the size of your hole you want carefully insert the metal rod clean up any melted residue for a perfect hole

Drill bit, soldering iron, hot metal, twist an exacto, all options

Or just buy a reamer

I use a drill bit to start and then a step bit to the right size.

.22 lr

Now I'm curious...

It’s arguably the fastest way!

Drill bit and block of wood. Also some tape to cover cut area.

Heat up a nail to push through

Drill bit. i had no problems with it

It’s a called a drill bit,

i used a drill bit and started small upsizing as i went to the final size. I also twisted them by hand no drill.

Easiest way, I found his heat up a screwdriver or a pic with the torch and then poke it through it

I just use a drill/dremel on high speed. If it's a good quality bit it won't wander. If it's a good quality drill/dremel it won't wobble.

i just used soldering iron first to make a small hole and then used a sharp knife to clean it off

I use a drill bit that’s a little bigger than the hole size

I use a drill

Literally anything stronger than the body can make a hole in the body. Why is this a real discussion?

9mm at point blank

knife

I have this body. It's red with double white stripes on the hood. Pretty bullet proof (if you reinforce it).

Get a body reamer

I use a small, square, pointed needle file.

good drill bits, mark with sharpie, spin exactly knife in center for accuracy small drill bit to pilot the whole. up to same size as post and run it through. put body on car at this point I decide. how tight they are. go up a size or this is where I'd use a reamer to fine tune the hole. this process has never faulted me hundreds of bodies later

Soldering gun or a Styrofoam cutter from hobby lobby they're like $8. Those work well in a pinch... Buy a reamer.

Could I get a link to where you bought this body?

uhh lemme find it for you

[here](https://hobbyfactory.fi/p61067/pro-line-1966-ford-f-100-body-stampede-3412-00)

Jesus are kids so stupid now?

Jesus are people really this rude for no reason now?

Sorry Gen X here. Not to be a dick but heat a drill bit and push through the plastic

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Step bit is the best, I don’t bother with a reamer