Search for stub drills, size for size they are more rigid. I use them in the workshop for tapping sizes in the lathe and mill. Small sizes need to be run fast.
They're tungsten carbide and very brittle. I use them in my special pillar drill for PCBs, but if just wanting (say) an extra hole on an existing one, my hand held drill is more convenient. But all too easy to break small TC drills.
Ah - dunno how I missed those, thanks Dave, as Rapid is one of my most used suppliers. But they do seem to have gone up since I last saw them.
They're about 10 times the price of TC bits of the same size. And even more than that for plain ol' twist drills. If only I could find plain ol' twist drills about half the normal length. ;-)
Just a bit too short and possibly too bulky - too big to fit my small hand held hobby drill. But I must admit to not having thought of using those. Wonder if a TC one would be robust enough for hand held use?
Doesn't that take an eighth inch shank? Because that seems to be what the 1mm centre drills have.
A lot less wobbly than any other sort of bit, I think. When you think of how they're used on lathes, they're jammed in quite hard at lowish revs, so spinning them at Dremel speeds shouldn't give rise to any problems except, perhaps, heating.
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