Thread: Need advice on drill bits

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Well, there has been alot of good advise on this thread. I agree with all of it, to a point. I am with Randy. You can very easily spend alot of money on drill indexes, and buy expensive ones that will dull after a few holes. You can also get cheap indexes that will last a long time. I am in the military, and getting them to spring for anything that costs a decent amount is hard to do, value is always the way for them, so I get alot of the cheap "Stock System" made in Tiawan crap, from the lowest bidder. They don't cut more than two holes before dulling up. I combatted that by purchacing a Drill DR. for shop. You have all seen them I am sure, and sears sells them. For the price of one drill index, I got this sharpener, and I have only had to buy bits when another department borrows my drill index and breaks a bit off or something. The Drill DR. will take the worst looking, dulled up P.O.S. bit and make it like brand new sharp in maybe 60 seconds, once you know how to sharpen bits with it. It comes with a instruction video and book, and it is easy to use. I am not trying to sell the thing, just share a possitive experience, that has saved my department alot of money from buying numerous cheap drill indexes, and I can keep the ones we got sharp as the day we bought them.

JMO