Reuleaux triangle - you can drill a square hole

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A Reuleaux triangle is a shape formed from the intersection of three circular disks, each having its center on the boundary of the other two. It is a curve of constant width, the simplest and best known such curve other than the circle itself.

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It turns out "almost" square hole. The square is obtained with slightly rounded edges that need to process with a file, and, nevertheless, is really a square hole can be drilled.

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First cutter to make a square hole drilling succeeded Harry Watts in 1917, an English engineer working in the United States.

The video shows how the drill and make the square holes:

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