Im my younger days I learned that cheap tools cost $$ and are junk. Spend the bucks and get good to great tools. It will do you more good than you know...
The downside to those is that once the titanium or cobalt coating is gone, they're basically regular steel drill bits. Sharpening them isn't much of an option.
I've never sharpened a drill but that is my understanding as well with the cobalt drills they are through-and-through the same alloy and not just a coating. That was one reason I said don't grab the titanium.
Also, use cutting fluid! I think you might be already but if not- it's a game changer. I have tap magic(thank you Project Farm!) and I don't know what I ever did without it. Oh yes I do. I TORMENTED, dulled, and trashed many drills and step-bits, not to mention my wallet and my own mental state.
I completely agree. Of course with the idiocy that I see online today, maybe they're trying to use only the bit to make a hole. I wouldn't be one bit surprised.In my world, the drill has always been the drill, and the bit has always been the bit. The confusion has only come in with the younger generations being too lazy to learn the nomenclature. And especially with the internet. Call it the wrong thing, once, and suddenly the entire world calls it that, and insists that is the correct thing to call it.
In my world, the drill has always been the drill, and the bit has always been the bit. The confusion has only come in with the younger generations being too lazy to learn the nomenclature. And especially with the internet. Call it the wrong thing, once, and suddenly the entire world calls it that, and insists that is the correct thing to call it.
That's what I was trying to reference, the people most engrossed in the science and use of said tools refer to the twisty bit as a drill. I also grew up calling bits bits, etc, but in the last few years learned that machinists call them drills. It makes sense as the driver doesn't do one tiny bit of drilling, it just drives the drill.The problem is I've always heard them referred to as a drill (or twist drill) in a professional (machine shop) setting. Still could be a "newer" nomenclature thing but I don't know. Guess if I had to satisfy my curiosity I'd have to find an old retired machinist and get his view on it.
Do you drill the hole with the bit or the drill? Or do you bit the drill to make the hole? Should you drill the whole bit?
Or just a bit of the whole?
If you drill with a bit the whole hole, is WD-40 nessicery or is this another opportunity to use waste oil? Is "drill" a verb or noun? And can it be powered by an alternative fuel?