Robin S. wrote:

"Chris" wrote in message
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I am looking for a decent 115 HSS drill bit set.


What are you drilling? Aluminum and plastics are more forgiving. Steels are
less forgiving (sometimes much less).

Also, you may want to just buy the sizes you're going to need. While it's a
pain to have to buy them individually, you can spend your money where it
counts and you'll always have good drill bits. There are _many_ sizes that
are _never_ used. On a good set, you'll only save something like 10-15% as
opposed to buying every size individually.

I bought a decent set of Union Butterfield once. I use them a lot. I use cheap
Chinese drills when I don't care much. Also, I buy 10-packs of high quality 1/8"
drills because those are what I normally start with. Center drill, then push
through with 1/8", then usually directly to the size I need unless it's critical
in which case I'll take another step or two.

The UB sets go on sale sometimes from J&L. I don't remember it being cheap,
though. If you aren't good at precision drill grinding then it's likely money
well spent. Nothing special about UB.

Titanium is just a coating. They can put that on lipstick if they want, doesn't
mean it will drill very well.

Buying 115 drills might make sense, but unwrapping them oh my God what a pain.

GWE