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: > > 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: >> >> >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 >> >> >> >>------------------------------------ >> >>Be sure to visit the group home and check for new Links, Files, and Photos: >>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBsYahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > Be sure to visit the group home and check for new Links, Files, and Photos: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBsYahoo! Groups Links > > >
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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Good place to get PCB drill bits?
2012-11-23 by Jan Kok
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