[Shop-talk] Drill bits: carbon steel vs high-speed

[David Scheidt]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Eugene D Abbondelo <eabb at loc.gov> wrote:
> This post reminded me to ask:
>
> Concerning drill sharpening--I have a Drill Doctor brand drill sharpener and
I have never been able to get it to sharpen decently. B Anyone else had this
problem? B Is there a better brand out there?
>

As Arvid suggests, I suspect you're not getting the bit in correctly.
I've got the lowest end one (so low-end, they no longer make it), and
it works fine.  It took me some fiddling to figure out how the bits
went in; neither the video nor instruction manual made sense to me.



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David Scheidt
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