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Dave wrote:
I was thinking more of bending type breaking than twisting with a very
long smallish HSS.

I see what you mean. This is a common problem with a pistol type
drill handle. The way to get round this, if you are right handed.
(If you are left handed, just change hands and follow this with your
left hand doing the pushing.)...

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I hardly ever use HSS drills in a hand drill - I have a drill press
which would be used for steel, etc.

Wouldn't that be difficult to use to drill horizontally through wood?
:-)

You just turn the wood round. ;-)

I don't have a problem breaking twist drills in a hand drill.

Except tungsten ones for PCB use. So I have a special drill press for
those. ;-)

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