How would you drill through steel at a high speed without burning the drill bit? Years ago when I worked with steel, or iron we'd drill through thick material at a low speed squirting oil as we'd run the bit through. ----- Original Message ----- From: "chiliblindman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:54 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] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
