Storing drill bits - how do people here do it?

The only real solution... a round tuit comes along eventually:

The grease would stop the drill bits getting rusty.

Owain

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk saying something like:

Lobbed in a compartment in the drill case.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "ARWadsworth" saying something like:

Can't Guv; too many bits and pieces there - binocs, camera, drill charger, Diet Coke, telephone wire, satellite finder kit, etc. How on earth could I find room for a drill set?

Reading this reminded me to order some new Bosch Multi Material drill bits which arrived today. I more or less only use 6mm, 8mm & 5mm on a regular basis.

I pondered on where to keep them readily accessible in my overcrowded tool bag. Simple - in an outside pocket that contains a 10" spirit level with a magnetic base - bits stick to magnet!

And then all the swaerf sticks ot the bits. Grrrrrr.

(I keep mine in an old Golden Virgina tin. No, I never smoked, I worked on the production line and picked up a lifetime (literally - it was 35 years ago) supply of the tins.)

Golden Virginia tobacco tin - ditto for screws washers and all sorts of bits and bobs - need labeling though

They do not break in as such, they just throw bricks through the window and run off.

The battle goes well. An arrest and convition "section 5 POA" for the next door neighbour thanks to my CCTV. She it treading on eggshells as she is a home help and may lose her job.

Adam

In article , ARWadsworth writes

Excellent result :-)

Not so good . . .

Just came across this old post while searching for something else.

How about an old circular cotton bud box with the clear top lid. Cut a piece/pieces of foam/polystyrene to fit. Push drills in. Will work for drills up to about 6mm. Above that they are too long to fit the top on.

Barry

I thought the subject looked familiar! :-)

Thanks for the idea.

I did find some plastic blocks years ago which had a range of holes to store different size drills - however if you have duplicates then this becomes a bit tricky,

One thing which worked - take a short length of 2 * 4 and use each drill to drill a hole in the broader surface. The drill will then fit in the hole shaft first. Then you have one hole for each drill and everything stores neatly.

For counter sinks, wire brushes etc. find a drill which matches the size of the shaft, and drill a hole with that.

HTH

Dave R

The top will get lost first time you use it. Or even before as they simply fall off. ;-)

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:18:54 +0000, Barry Smith wrote (in article ):

Take a block of polystyrene, push the drills you want into it in the order you want. Surround/fill it with resin to make a negative, use the negative to make a new positive and you have a custom bit holder. Probably.

The trouble with the usual drill sets in stands or boxes is that they only hold one of each size. Break one drill in the middle of a job and you're stuffed. I have a couple of drill sets in my tool box, a few drill stands in my workshop for imperial and metric, and a store box like this

John

The solution to this is to make your own drill stand. Take a piece of left over kitchen top and drill holes for all the sizes of drills that you have. If you drill all the way through, then glue on a piece of hard board. ply, or thin mdf, under it, to stop them falling through. If you have many of the same size, then drill holes for all of them, in other words, lay them out in a line and use each one to drill a hole in sequence. When I was working, I might require 6 5 mm drills and each one had different qualities. Another aspect of making your own, is the fact that you can see if you have replaced all your drills.

Mark the wood with the size of the drill, job done.

I would put each drill cutting edge down. That way you will not end up getting one of them up a fingernail, or cutting you

HTH

Dave

I never did get around to contributing to this thread when it was current, but I put my drill bits in an organiser box and a very similar box is on the Aldi offers for 4.99 pounds on 31st january

It works well as a technique for me because I regularly use a range of different bit sizes. Sometimes they last for ages when I'm drilling into wood and other times they blunt very quickly when I am drilling into plaster. I buy my bits in a handy box of ten of a kind then put the box of new bits in the same organiser compartment as the 'in use' bits and refresh them as necessary

Anna

I was wondering how that would work as most organiser boxes have fixed length compartments but I see this one is variable.

More interesting is the 250kg @ 5m (125kg @ 10m) electric hoist for =A339.99. Still have to provide a suitably strong "sky hook" and wheels/trolly unless you just wanted a straight static lift.