7/8 diameter drill or .875
by using a drill
Drill bits not only come in fractional number sizes they also come in letter sizes. The F size drill bit is .257 thousandths of an inch in diameter. A 1/4 inch drill bit is .250 thousandths of an inch in diameter, so size F is .007 thousandths of an inch bigger than a 1/4 inch drill bit.
I drill a pilot hole the size of the 'barrel' of the screw. -I always use a combination drill bit for sinking screwheads. The first part of the bit is the diameter of the 'barrel' of the screw and the step, one inch higher is the size of that screw's head. (The barrel is the diameter inside threads) -I have a set of these drill bits for #6, #8, and #10 screws and they are great.
For all practical purposes an 8mm drill is equal to 5/16 inch.
A 10 cm hole is almost 4 inches ! ! - IF you meant 10mm, then that's a little over 3/8 of an inch, or 13/32 for a clearance hole.
A # 30 drill bit is 0.1285 inch, or fractionally more than a 1/8 bit.
For a clearance hole you need a 9/64 drill bit.
3/16 inch since you are using a screw and you want the threads to catch the wood if you meant lag bolt, make it 5/16 inch so the bolt will slide through
It depends on the material you are fitting it into. In most wood I pre-drill a 1/4 hole for this. In softer woods i would drill a smaller hole .
Sixteen teeth per inch is basically for every inch on any threaded diameter, you may count sixteen teeth with in one inch. Gladstone Joseph
5/16 hole X 4 inch on a flat bottom hole: This will depend on the material, and tools available. Use a 1/8 bit, then 5/16. If you are not sure how deep the drill bit is in the hole, paint white out on the bit as your 4 inch mark so you can see it while the drill is spinning. If the material is metal, you will need coolant. To get the flat bottom: it wood, put a flat ended bolt into the hole and hammer, it will flatten the hole, it metal, forget about it, the hole is quite flat, and a pain in the butt to change. :-)
If the snake is six inches long and the hole is two inches in diameter, then yes. Otherwise, no.