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How Small Do You Grind ?
I started free hand grinding my own drill bits a few months ago. Not
out of choice, but out of necessity. Since I started doing it I have reground a fair number of them. Sometimes the same one two or three times in the same set of jobs. Now I have old eyes, but my glasses are pretty good, and I have a magnifier lamp I swing over my bench grinder. It allows me to free hand better than I ever thought I would be able to. I've also resharpened some of my stub length Silver and Deming bits. That's where it really pays off. I bought a set of those some years back, but I've never seen them available singly. The 5/8 took quite a beating over the years since its the standard injection port size for hand injecting plastisol. I actually make injectors .620 and sprues ..63, but sometimes you just have to brute force a solution. It was nice to finally be able to just sharpen it right up. No more piles of drill bits to be sharpened someday. I just sharpen it right up and drop it back in its spot. Which brings me to the other size limit. The smallest I've reground so far was a #21. I picked that one to push the smaller size limit because I have several of them on hand. I ordered a half dozen of them once from McMaster in stub screw machine length to drill molds for 10-32 clamping screws. It came out ok. I'm not sure how much smaller I could grind free hand. Probably not much. I was squinting a bit at it and gritting my teeth. LOL. So how small of drill bits do you free hand regrind. I don't have a drill doctor or a Darex or a knockoff. Just a bench grinder. Well a couple of them and a small belt grinder now. I think one of the limits is grit size, but another would be heat. It would be really easy to overheat a tiny little drill bit. |
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