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Drill sharpener
trevoratxtal:
For UK folk.
Coming Thursday 27th Aug 15 at Lidl
http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=26224
Sounds good.
I am just a Lidl customer.
Love their tools.
Trev
Fergus OMore:
Frankly, I simply wonder if this new gadget is any better than the last one- and the one before that.
I'm sitting with a knife grinder from either Lidl or Aldi and it is crap.
One argument is that for a £20 note you can get quite a few sharp drills and the other is that the cheap drills are - not worth a grind anyway.
On a wider canvas(s), the Chinese economy is taking a nose dive- and has for days now. Our own economy is tumbling in line. Will £20 get a Lidl bargain - before Thursday?
Interesting :loco:?
PekkaNF:
Here in Finland this has been on 27€ or something, but I know one person that binned it right after first drill sharpening and the other returned it and got money back.
I haven't tried it. What kind of rebuild it would take to make it work? Probably not a one single plastic part between drill and stone?
Pekka
Fergus OMore:
Points taken and comments noted.
I've played about with various plastic so called drill grinders with limited success but with more failures than can be admitted. In others words, I'm an idiot :lol:
Even if these drill grinders were any good, they only admit a certain range of drills ie in perhaps half millimetre intervals whereas we prefer and need more drills in a half mm space! We know this but I've mentioned it again.
So where have I been? Lidl's and Aldi's are good for somethings but I went a little off centre and thought again of having a selection of grinding gear- which does a remarkable restoration of workshop cutting tools.
So why not 'do the Four Facet system'? It doesn't even demand a centre drill or if you are ancient like me a Slocomb drill.
The cost of many of these longer lasting affairs is considerable- and dead cheap.
I looked at one design last night and apart from unearthing a few bits of rusty round, there was about 4 bits of 2mm mild steel sheet and a bit of nylon. One hiccup from being dead simple was that I would have to braze, weld or whatever 2 of the little sheets. If I got the Mig out, I would get away with a few skip welds- nothing more. The brackets were also scrap things given to me.
There are other simple jigs, but that one took my fancy
Norman
John Rudd:
Well don't want to rain on anyone's parade.....but...
I bought the Clarke one from Machine Mart some time back....what a POS.....!!....the biggest drawback with the machine is that you cannot guarantee an equal grind on each face....so you nay as well stick with a free hand machine...
This was the main reason I went for the Sealey machine ( in another thread I started ...http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,10821.0.html )
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