I usually am not very fond of harbor freight tools unless I'm getting something I know is a throwaway, but I'll have to say I have been impressed with some of the drill bit sets I have gotten there. Not all of them though. That big set in a metal case with all the fractional and letter sizes for about forty bucks is surprisingly good. I use an iPhone app to figure metric conversion. Jim
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 02:24 PM 6/21/2011, John Rodgers wrote: > >> Silver & Deming are the best drill bits I have ever owned and used, >> bar none. >> > > Silver and Deming is a design of reduced-shank bits invented by > Albert Silver and John Deming in the 19th century. The name "Silver > and Deming" was adopted by many manufacturers for this style of > bits. They are six inches long with three-inch flutes and a > half-inch shank, diameters run at least up to one inch.. You can get > good ones and bad ones. > > Yours, > David > |
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