Sears: Numbered Drill Bits?

One more thing. Don't be fooled by the CHEAP so-called titanium nitride drill bits. You can get a whole fractional+letter set for $34 from Harbor Freight while a plain old good fractional+letter set from Sears is over $200. But, the cheap titanium nitride bits are usually imprecise, badly cut and dull right out of the box - and can't be sharpened. The sears bits are good.

Hey - I bought a complete set of I think 16 drill bits at the local Ace Hardware for $2.50! I couldn't resist! I had to find out just how bad they could be. They aren't very straight, for one thing. A 1/8" bit will dance a circle with about a 1/8" circumference!

Didja get in on the Harbor Freight 8" 5-speed drill presses for $29.95? You can make 'em into all kinds of fancy tools if you're creative enough. I just converted one from a 4" "throat" to a 12" throat for a special project. Thinking about making one into an oscillating spindle sander!

Sorry Rocky - I just had to butt in! Uh - Oh yeah! **OT**

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sharpened. The sears bits

Sorry about that URL I gave. It depends upon a cookie. Go to Sears' website and in the search field, type "letter drill bit" - that gets the fractional + lettered.

Would that make a decent substitute for a 1/4" bit?

GaryT

When you guys(American) talk about lettered, are you referring to Metric bits?

J.

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No, PJ, I think not. But I don't remember from auto shop class, so now I'm gonna have to look up why they did that... a number 1 = .238 (inch), a #2 = .221 (inch), a #3 = .213... etcetera. I don't have a drill card handy for the lettered sizes; will have to look that up in the book too.

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