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Hey guys! I know this looks like a shameless plug, but if you're like me, you have twelve different drill indexes half filled with good bits you never use and the other half broken, dull, or missing of all the bits you need all the time. Right now Lowe's has the Fractional US made Cle-Line set for $50. Through Grainger or MSC this is a $200 set. It's in the same league as Norseman or Chicago Latrobe. Just a heads-up if anyone was planning to hit up Harbor Freight to start breaking another index of Chinese bits some time soon!
79 J-10 (Honcho Mucho) KE0LSU
304/Performance Fuel Injection TBI/MTA1/SP2P/Magnum rockers
T18/D20/D44s&4.10s/33" Mud Claws
Grizzly Locker Rear
4" front spring drop, 5" rear shackle flip
Chevy style HEI (ECM controlled)
Dolphin "Shark" gauges in a fancy homemade oak bezel
3/4 resto, rotting faster than I've been fixing it.
I wish I could make a drill dr actually work. I have probably 1-2 5gallon buckets ( ) worth of old, dull, or broken drill bits. I bet I could sharpen for 3 months non stop and not fix em all. I'm not very good at doing it on the bench grinder and the lil drill dr I have is a joke.
I know! I had a drill Dr and thought it was the bees knees for the first 5 bits I sharpened. After that it went to crap and I found the replacement stone cost more than a new drillDr!
Yeah, I feel like a dork because I just spent over $100 on single bits at Fastenal to fill out the missing bits in my Norseman index two weeks ago, and then I found this.
79 J-10 (Honcho Mucho) KE0LSU
304/Performance Fuel Injection TBI/MTA1/SP2P/Magnum rockers
T18/D20/D44s&4.10s/33" Mud Claws
Grizzly Locker Rear
4" front spring drop, 5" rear shackle flip
Chevy style HEI (ECM controlled)
Dolphin "Shark" gauges in a fancy homemade oak bezel
3/4 resto, rotting faster than I've been fixing it.
That's how it always goes. I've been wanting to put a winch on the trailer so I don't have to keep using the come along. Was going to slap a cheap HF winch on and saw they have a sale on the 12k. $289 bucks! And the sale ends today but I'm at Reserves. DOH!
I was drilling 7/16" holes in 1/4" plate for engine mounts and smoked my last 7/16" bit this morning, pulled out the Drill Doctor and I was back in business in less than 2 minutes, longer than it took to get the case out from under the rolling cart.
243 wrote:I was drilling 7/16" holes in 1/4" plate for engine mounts and smoked my last 7/16" bit this morning, pulled out the Drill Doctor and I was back in business in less than 2 minutes, longer than it took to get the case out from under the rolling cart.
243 wrote:I was drilling 7/16" holes in 1/4" plate for engine mounts and smoked my last 7/16" bit this morning, pulled out the Drill Doctor and I was back in business in less than 2 minutes, longer than it took to get the case out from under the rolling cart.
There's at least two different drill Drs, one is blue and one is grey.
Shag, you know you can burn up any drill bit, but the ones from Cle-Line, Norseman, and Chicago Latrobe are meant for industry, not hobbists/homeowners so they do last longer. It's why I felt the need to post this, those brands usually are only sold through industrial suppliers at 2 or 3 times that price. Since most here don't have a Grainger or MSC account, figured I'd share.
79 J-10 (Honcho Mucho) KE0LSU
304/Performance Fuel Injection TBI/MTA1/SP2P/Magnum rockers
T18/D20/D44s&4.10s/33" Mud Claws
Grizzly Locker Rear
4" front spring drop, 5" rear shackle flip
Chevy style HEI (ECM controlled)
Dolphin "Shark" gauges in a fancy homemade oak bezel
3/4 resto, rotting faster than I've been fixing it.
For the most part, if you burn a bit, you either had too little pressure, or too much speed. So long as a drill is cutting, it will not burn. It might dull, but it won't burn.
PT, that's absolutely true, but you know as well as I do, that when you're lying on your back drilling sideways with a cordless, you're gonna smoke that bit. Yet we keep doing it.
79 J-10 (Honcho Mucho) KE0LSU
304/Performance Fuel Injection TBI/MTA1/SP2P/Magnum rockers
T18/D20/D44s&4.10s/33" Mud Claws
Grizzly Locker Rear
4" front spring drop, 5" rear shackle flip
Chevy style HEI (ECM controlled)
Dolphin "Shark" gauges in a fancy homemade oak bezel
3/4 resto, rotting faster than I've been fixing it.
REDONE wrote:PT, that's absolutely true, but you know as well as I do, that when you're lying on your back drilling sideways with a cordless, you're gonna smoke that bit. Yet we keep doing it.
I usually find a good way to put pressure, but yeah, sometimes...
I wish I could hold a class on sharpening drills...………..As a tool & Die apprentice , years ago, I had 2 old German toolmakers drive me to tears "educating" me in the drill sharpening process...………..It is really super easy to sharpen a drill once you have got the process down.....