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Drill sharpener
BaronJ:
I got one of those a couple of years ago for €10 whilst on holiday in France. :doh: I only bought it because it was marked "Half Price" and the box was cracked. Great if you want a set of drills and a couple of coarse bevelled grinding wheels. Actually the drills are not bad at all, but as a drill sharpener its rubbish and not to be recommended
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Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: John Rudd on August 25, 2015, 08:29:20 AM ---Well don't want to rain on anyone's parade.....but...
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For £20 more than the cost of the Sealey affair, I came back home with a Stent tool and cutter grinder.
Admitted it was only a fabricated one but it does rather more than what the price suggested.
I suppose that if I had a scrap drill chuck, it would do twist drills as well. Interesting little beast for £100.
Oh, I forgot, I came back with covers for my readouts on my mill/drill.
Turned out nice again!
Norman
hermetic:
I bought one for less than £20, It is not a precision machine tool, but IF YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, which some of the above posters obviously have not, it will produce a reasonably sharp drill that will drill mild steel with no problems. It will probably drill oversize, but for your average diyer wacking 1/4 holes in angle iron for 1/4 bolts, it saves the unskilled hours of work at the grinder producing spears, or something you could ride bare ars*d to London on with no personal damage. they "work" but they aint precision. What do you expect for the price!
sparky961:
It doesn't take much time or skill to hand grind bits to the low standards you mention. Its when you need an accurate drill where yyou really start wishing for a decent sharpener.
Fergus OMore:
Sparky is quite right but there is something which is always missed about drills. Why don't drill grinder manufacturers make a tool to do both conventional twist drills and end mills and slot drills. Most are the same bits of twisted metal, only their ends are different .
Have a nice day?
Norman
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