Recommend me a drill bit set

[richp]

I'm hoping people can recommend me a decent but reasonably priced drill bit set that they have experience of using.

I was using the cheap bits that came with my drill at the weekend and the buggers just kept snapping!

[composimmonite]

I bought a set of the titanium coated drill bits sold by Lidl. Was so impressed went back and bought another 12 boxes (on offer / reduced to £2.99)
I also got one of the electric drill sharpeners - worth the money as takes seconds to put a new edge on a blunted bit.

[jaykay]

I buy bosch ones from the wholesalers i use, get a lot of abuse and stay sharp.

Avoid the dewalt ones, they last about 5 seconds.

[slater]

Dormer do a nice 1-10 set in a cylindrical holder. Good for keeping in the box with your battery drill.

If you buy cheap you will get curse word

[dodgerover]

I've used dewalt extreme metal drills for RSJ's and was impressed with them.

[DWDarkWheels]

I try to keep to the titanium coated ones too, as they seem to keep a keen edge a bit longer than HSS? The problem with sets is you use particular sizes, so sometimes it's just worth bulking up on the sizes you need :

Personally, I'm big on 3.2mm for pop rivets: 6.5mm for clearance on 6mm bolts, 8.5 for clearance on 8.5mm bolts.
Maybe metric is too modern for Retro-rides

[Dez]

if you actually resharpen drills, buying titanium coated ones is pointless, as the coating i only microns thick. if you use them til they're blunt then chuck them its fine, but if you do resharpen, a good quality HSS set from a reputable brand like dormer is best.

i also find bosch pretty good, and ive also got some from a brand id previously never heard of called zebra, and they're very good too.

[DWDarkWheels]

Jan 16, 2015 20:16:06 GMT Dez said:

if you actually resharpen drills, buying titanium coated ones is pointless

Puntastic

[Dez]

Jan 16, 2015 20:31:08 GMT DWDarkWheels said:

Jan 16, 2015 20:16:06 GMT Dez said:

if you actually resharpen drills, buying titanium coated ones is pointless

Puntastic

i did wonder if it would go (w)holey unnoticed

[bmw2101]

we have the dormer ones at work, last fora good time, and you can resharpen them if you have a decent bench grinder.

[slater]

As Dez says Ti coatings etc are fine if your running a CNC production line where even the slightest wear on your tool means its not fit for purpose but in our world is not really a big benefit.

The only reason it gets put on jobber sets in the first place is because yellow shiny drills sell better to idiots (the public) than black normal ones.

Buy a set of normal jobber drills from a reputable 'brand', not a cheap set of shiny ones from aldi or where ever. If you don't know how to resharpen a drill get teaching yourself asap too. They are designed to be resharpened so if your not your pouring cash down the drain before you have even picked which drills you want to buy!

[oztuning]

Jan 16, 2015 20:16:06 GMT Dez said:

and ive also got some from a brand id previously never heard of called zebra, and they're very good too.

Zebra are Wurth products aren't they? I've got a 1/2 Zebra from Wurth socket set and its brilliant.

[stealthstylz]

Ive got a couple of the cheap Lidl sets, a good Dormer set and various random sized Dormer bits. Not had an issue with any of them, few snapped bits in the Lidl sets but that's purely through mistreatment. Ive got a Dormer 18mm reduced shank bit that went through 10mm stainless bar opening a 10mm pilot with no issues.

[ruffgeezer]

We've just got a big box set (10 of each size) of Wurth ones in at work, I have been very impressed with them so far.

[pittaway]

dormer for me

[richp]

Something like these I guess? www.uktoolcentre.co.uk/Shop/p~29594~A096-No.413-HSS-Drill-Set-of-13-1.0~10mm-x-0.5mm.html

[quadra]

What you could do is, buy a cheaper set of 20 drills and then if you find that you keep breaking a certain size you can replace it with a higher quality drill bit. The problem with buying a big set of drill bits is that you won't necessarily use all of the drill bits but they are handy to have, but the 4mm, 5mm, 6mm,8mm and 10mm will get used a lot.

[DavidB]

I have Bosch ones from B&Q - they were 20 quid for six or seven, but they last for a while drilling solid metal - things like drilling ball joints out.





I always spray it with cutting/drilling spray, and let the drill cool down for a few seconds after about five seconds of drilling.

[slater]

www.bigredtoolbox.co.uk/dormer-a191-no419-hss-drill-set-in-plastic-case-metric?fee=3&fep=6488&utm_source=google-shopping&utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=feed&gclid=CjwKEAiAlvilBRC5ueCzkpXb4kgSJADxop1BTcPuh7bywaeC0fKTzdP3tBUky9va428Hz92KMw0HnhoCXy_w_wcB

Those

[slomoshun]

avoid halfrauds so called drill bits / should be called liquorice sticks they are so weak and i had two sets bought me and the whole lot were useless
tool station do some good drill bits
next time I'm trying bosch and an engineer told me yesterday hitachi drill bits are not good
pay more get more i suppose