Where are all the good drill bits?

[Charles Nicholls]

Hi all, I ask this question, because i am having a real hard time finding a drill bit or drill bit set with any quality other than bad.

I have purchased 2 7mm drill bits over the last few years, and both were pretty much dull out of the package.

can someone point me to a place that makes quality drill bits?

I prefer Brad point, but it isn't absolutely required.

Thanks 

[Gene Howe]

Charles, these bits are highly recommended.

[Charles Nicholls]

Thanks Gene apparently they didn't have the right size either though.

[Fred W. Hargis Jr]

I have a set of these, been using them for over 6 years (a lot) and they are still performing like new. Page down and you see the metric size.

[Stick486]

go for German or US made...

talk to LeeValley...

[Miataguy]

7 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

go for German or US made...

talk to LeeValley...

 

Unless it is good Asian food, I don't like anything Chinese....

[Stick486]

2 minutes ago, Miataguy said:

 

Unless it is good Asian food, I don't like anything Chinese....

no such thing...

[Miataguy]

35 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

no such thing...

 

I absolutely love Asian food....I could live on it 24-7!

[Stick486]

8 minutes ago, Miataguy said:

 

I absolutely love Asian food....I could live on it 24-7!

hang out in the kitchen... you'll change yur mind...

[Miataguy]

11 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

hang out in the kitchen... you'll change yur mind...

 

...there is that reduction in the local stray cat population to consider....

[lew]

   @Charles Nicholls check this site- http://wlfuller.com/

[Charles Nicholls]

Thanks for the info guys, it was most helpful!

[HARO50]

1 hour ago, Charles Nicholls said:

Thanks for the info guys, it was most helpful!

With the drills or Chinese food?

John

[BillyJack]

A suggestion.... Things made 20 years ago are better than today and cheaper. I buy a lot of older bits...

Edited October 8, 2017 by BillyJack

[kmealy]

Someone knowledgeable about such said that in the Asian sets, only a couple of sizes of bits were properly hardened, "Because that's what most people use the most often."

 

"There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and those people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey. It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money - that is all.   When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.    The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot; it cannot be done.   If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better"

 

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

 

 

[schnewj]

1 hour ago, kmealy said:

Someone knowledgeable about such said that in the Asian sets, only a couple of sizes of bits were properly hardened, "Because that's what most people use the most often."

 

"There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and those people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey. It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money - that is all.   When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.    The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot; it cannot be done.   If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better"

 

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

 

 

Truer words were never spoken...

[Stick486]

4 hours ago, kmealy said:

"There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and those people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey. It is unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money - that is all.   When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.    The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot; it cannot be done.   If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better"

 

[Stick486]

3 hours ago, schnewj said:

Truer words were never spoken...

 

firm believer in them...

[Charles Nicholls]

A suggestion.... Things made 20 years ago are better than today and cheaper. I buy a lot of older bits...

 

I believe it! Just like a lot of the older vehicles are better than newer ones.

[BillyJack]

On 10/8/2017 at 9:35 PM, Charles Nicholls said:

 

 

 

I believe it! Just like a lot of the older vehicles are better than newer ones.

Maybe...Maybe not...................