Having the furniture at home the job looked simple. I have a wrought iron frame that is missing a few nuts and bolts to keep it all in one piece so just replace the bolts.........wrong. The designer of said furniture was obviously having a trippy day and thought that the whole joining process can be done like you would do with a wooden dowel.
Needless to say I was going to have to get the drill out and drill through the steel frame to put new bolts in the frame. Having never drilled in metal before I did not know what I was up against - so I did as the manufacturer did and treated the steel like wood and drilled high speed into the steel frame. If you have never drilled in steel before this is a very bad idea because all that happens is you get a blunt drill bit and a shiny divot in the steel.
So I had to go to that most traditional weekend places to visit for the handyman - a local Bunnings so that I could get a new drill bit. This time around it all went quite well after doing some online research into drilling into steel. Slowly Slowly lots of pressure is the trick.
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