I Saw This at My Local Welding Supply

There are better s+d drill bits , and at much cheaper prices. I'm not bragging or saying which brands but twenty years ago or so I bought 5 or 6pcs set for about thirty bucks, I've used and abused them and sharpen as needed. I've drilled in pipe with Milwaukee right angle drill got stuck and it wrapped the cord up before it stopped free spinning without power. I mean it was really walloping and the bit came out fine my hands were sore but no broken bones or bad cuts. I'm still using those quite often.
Remember what PT Barnum said????

Most of my S/D shank drills are turned down from Morse tapered shank drills I've picked up here and there. Some have been replaced with genuine one's over the years.

ddickey said:

Wow, sounds like a terrible place to work. You're right though could be union brothers upset at management.

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Jonathans said:

All those reviews look anonymous. If thats the fact they must be taken with a grain of salt. What stops one person with multiple handles from commenting?

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Buffalo20 said:

None of those post shocked me, show me any manufacturing facility, some of the employees will love working there and some will hate working there.

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Ok guys, Lets talk about S & D drills here. No more bashing of companies/employees issues.

Ken

Be sure to calculate your speeds and feeds.
Don't invest in drills larger than your spindle speed can/should slowly safely spin.

Daryl
MN

A bunch of #3morse taper drill bits I picked up at a flea market had the bottom inch and a half machined
to a cylinder. The cylindrical part looks like 5/8 inch. They can be chucked in a large Jacobs chuck
or used as they were intended in MT3 fashion. Interestingly, they still work fine in the lathe and the
tang was still present on most of them. If the tang was missing, I welded on a new tang and ground it
to MT3 specs. I'm not planning on machining my regular MT3 drills in this fashion as it would degrade their value.
Apparently some machinist had the ability to hold largish round stock drill bits but not MT#3. These bits
get used fairly often and work as well as my unmodified MT3 bits. The bits came in a wood peach crate
along with a slew of milling cutters that weighed in at 75 pounds or so. I couldn't pass it up for $25.
Going through the cutters was a valuable experience as there was other modified toolage that caught my
attention, telling me that whoever this machinist was had an uncanny thought process, genius possibly...

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