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Thread: Brad point drills
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20th November 2019, 11:02 PM #16
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20th November 2019, 11:08 PM #17
Yes, in a lot of their boxed drill sets sold at Bunnings you can't get individual drills to match every drill in the set, and guess which ones you always break
Luckily Total tools is only 500 metres further down the road in my case, and the staff are more knowledgeable and helpful as well.
And I get invited to their "trade nights" where they give me pizza and beer.I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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20th November 2019, 11:30 PM #18
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21st November 2019, 06:33 AM #19
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Frost 3-10mm Brad Point Drill Bit Set - 8 Piece | Total Tools
This is set i refer to. They are carbon steel
https://www.bolt.com.au/drill-set-pc-wood-p-101996.html
Another link for the frost ones
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21st November 2019, 07:38 AM #20
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Seeing brads are used to drill wood and not steel, carbon steel is not really a disadvantage IMO. As long as they are sharp and you don’t overheat the tips (we a speaking above 300 degrees C) I cant see a problem.
I’ve had to drill some very precise holes in hardwoods and softwoods, which they did beautifully, and they are still cutting fine. One job was 48 holes with the same bit.
As always JMO.
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21st November 2019, 07:46 AM #21
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21st November 2019, 10:25 AM #22
If you have spare HSS twist drill sets then consider grinding them into brad points. Forum member elanjacobs posted how to do this using a normal bench grinder fitted with a skinny wheel from an angle grinder, right now I’m travelling home and using an Ipad so I can’t do a search and add a link to it but I will endeavour to do so tomorrow.
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21st November 2019, 06:20 PM #23
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Not an angle grinder wheel, just a narrow (1/4") white wheel (although you could probably do it with a grinder wheel), previous thread is here Advice on sourcing decent drill bits...
I'm going to do a proper tutorial thread with more pics, I'll post the link when I have it.
As an aside, the Frost carbon steel bits are junk; we bought a set at my old work and some of them weren't even ground on centre. I don't just mean the centre point was off centre, the flutes weren't made to an even depth, so they weren't even salvageable
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21st November 2019, 08:00 PM #24
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Tutorial here: How to grind brad point bits by hand
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22nd November 2019, 02:12 PM #25
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22nd November 2019, 10:35 PM #26
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25th November 2019, 12:17 PM #27
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25th November 2019, 03:22 PM #28
I have some Colt Brad Point Drill Bits from a forum group buy a number of years back; first class!
PLUS I have a Metric & Imperial Made in USA sets from W.L. Fuller which are equally as good as Colt.
W.L. Fuller Inc.
Cheers, crowie
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27th October 2020, 07:28 AM #29
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