On 11/4/2013 6:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 04 November 2013 20:10:50 Gregg Eshelman did opine: > >> On 11/4/2013 7:53 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Hell, I'd pay >>> another $200 for a Drill Doctor that could do a 1/16" bit RIGHT. But >>> that beast isn't made, the drill bits, sloppy as they are, are too >>> cheap to be a target for the DD. Dammit. >> >> Buy one of the sharpeners from Darex, the company that makes the Drill >> Dr. > > Nice try, but the base line $1,450 model only goes down to 1/8". And I did > say +$200, not +1,200. ;-)
Something I've thought of for improving the Drill Dr. for smaller bits is to use a pin vise, turned smooth on its outside. Hold the small drill in the pin vise and the pin vise in the Drill Dr's chuck. The gotcha with that is the setup would also need a special alignment fixture with a magnifying lens and finer / more accurate alignment blades or whatever to ensure the bit is rotated properly. What I've found on my Drill Dr. is the cutting edges need to be aligned with the jaws clockwise from the line molded into the end of the chuck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
