I have bought drill bought drill bit assortments from Drill Bit City
www.store.yahoo.com/drillcity and been pleased with the quality. They
also come in nice storage cases. :-)
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mark Lerman <mlerman@...> wrote:
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> I just got some from <drillbitsunlimited.com>. The have all kinds of
> do-it-yourself assortments and also have router bits. They came
> nicely packaged in great little storage cases. I usually buy ones
> with collars so I don't have to guess the sizes. Prices were excellent, too!
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 10:12 AM 11/23/2012, you wrote:
>>On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:52:26 -0000, you wrote:
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>> >Far circuits sells carbide tipped PCB drills with large (1/8?)
>> shanks, but they're way too expensive from them. I'm looking for
>> cheap ones, but not unusably cheap Chinese ones. Something like
>> Enco house brand quality (no, I didn't check Enco). What do people
>> who do this a lot buy?
>>
>>Harbor Freight has an assortment, resharpened, of about 20 for roughly
>>six dollars. That's both on line and in the stores if they still
>>carry it. Now if you go online to HF, they (at one time) had a larger
>>assortment for only a few dollars more. Bear in mind that you will be
>>getting a good number of unusable drills (because of size) if you try
>>this approach. On the other hand, you may find this useful.
>>
>>the 1/8 inch size is an industry standard. I'd recommend something
>>other than a dremel, since the runout on a dremel is worse than that
>>on a Proxxon. The 12 volt version of a proxxon will work, but I like
>>the 120 volt better.
>>
>>Harvey
>>
>> >
>> > Alan
>>
>>
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