How do you define best? Cheapest, highest quality, fastest delivery,
greatest durability, nearest shop location, prettiest bimbo in the
advertising?
Cliff Coggin.
Sounds ideal <g> Leaving aside all flippancy, there is a serious point to be
made here. What is good for one person who only wants a cheap tool because
it will only be used once and does not require much accuracy, could well be
greatly different for another who wants something for repeated use and/or
great accuracy and therefore will likely pay much more for those qualitie.
Alternatively, living as I do, ten miles from the nearest big town means I
usually choose home delivery rather than travelling to a shop
Cliff.
Dave,
If you insist on having a set, this one is top quality but rather
expensive:
http://www.mscjlindustrial.co.uk/CGI/INPDFF?PMCTLG &PMPAGE&PMITEM=HS
S-22000M
If you keep an aye on the J&L monthly flyers you might find them on
special offer - I think I got mine for a lot less than £108!
If you are prepared, as I did, to buy the sizes you want over time as
and when, then I find this supplier provides a good service and the
prices are mostly very good (though with bizarre variations!):
http://www.drill-service.co.uk/Product.asp?Parent 0060260000&Tool&5
Also, I built up most of my early collection from these people:
http://www.millhillsupplies.co.uk/catalogue%20pages%20pdf/page14&15.pdf
They used to be in Oxfordshire, but the business these under a similar
name seems to be a DIY shop.
I think stub drills, especially in smaller sizes, are much under-rated,
and it is annoying that no-one supplies comprehensive sets (like 1.0 -
6.0 x 0.1mm) of decent quality and reasonable price - dammit, there is
less metal in them than the usual jobber length bits. I use them for
most tapping holes below 6mm, and for anything where rigidity is
desirable.
David
I would love to get some carbide stub drills in very small sizes, say 0.35 -
1.50 mm. I only need to drill holes 3 millimetres deep in hard steel, so the
extra rigidity would save me breaking so many.
Cliff Coggin.
Dave,
Just found another source today while looking for something entirely
different - isn't that often the way!
http://www.metal2models.btinternet.co.uk/tdrills.pdf
I've just remembered where mine came from. Not sets but I tend to use
metric screw tapping and clearance sizes most of all so buy specific sizes.
hth
Bob
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