On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:07:05 GMT, "JWho" wrote:


"Jerry Foster" wrote in message
. com...

"Boris Mohar" wrote in message
...

Don't buy the cheapest ones you could find like my father used to. I am
keeping this to remind me. The whole 99cent set was like that.

http://www.viatrack.ca/Misc/DRILBIT.jpg

--

Boris Mohar


I have one that's better than that. I picked up a cheap set some years
back, twist drills and brad-point (wood drills). I was using a brad point
in the drill press making some pilot holes in a piece of hard wood. All
of
a sudden, it quit drilling... Upon closer examination, it had literally
"unwound" the flutes and "wound" them in the opposite direction for half
the
length of the bit... I think I still have the damned thing around
somewhere... I call it a "bit for a reversable drill...

Sorry I don't have a picture of it.

LOL! Thank you for the laugh.


Jerry

As an aside... Small drills in a hand-held drill WILL break. The problem
is that you end up putting a side load on it. I drill with the mill, if
at
all possible, on the little stuff.



I remember a "high buck" set of drills a former boss of mine bought
from one of the "wagon jobbers" years back - was supposed to be the
best thing since sliced bread. They were very dissappointing, and when
the seller came back to see if he could unload a few more sets, my
boss told him they were EXCELLENT drill bits - if all you wanted to do
was drill holes in swiss cheese or make arseholes in balsa teddy
bears.