Actually it's getting harder to find plain high speed steel drill bits. They almost all have some type of coding on them now. Bosch makes some titanium coated bits that aren't near as good as their full titanium bits. I bought a set of the coated bits for the shop and had some trouble getting the larger bits to cut in the drill press. I went back to Lowes and bought the same size half inch bit alone and it didn't say coated, just titanium. It went right through the piece like it wasn't there.
That may be more than your son in law needs, but it's something to think about. In this case the old saying you get what you pay for is right. A half inch titanium bit goes around 15 dollars as I recall. The whole set of titanium coated bits goes for around 25 dollars... ----- Original Message ----- From: chiliblindman To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:54 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: Operating Your Drill Press I found out something last week when I went into our local tool and electrical supply house. Things are always changing in tools and stuff. Anyway I asked the people what they had in low speed drills, I wanted to purchase a set for my new son-in-law to go along with the drill he was going to get for Christmas. They informed me they no longer carry them, slow speed drill bits are on their way out. I thanked them and went to Lowe's, same thing. I ended up getting him a set of high speed cobalt coated bits. Forty kinds of different sets by brand, make-up and coatings. I got the cobalt made by Cobalt. I was wondering if others have found this to be the case where they live? .......................bob [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
