Well, I've definitely lost my spare set of HSS twist drills in the house move (but I did find my cold chisels while I looked for them!) and since I broke one (3.5mm) yesterday, I'd like another set.
I don't want to buy some no-name cheapo Chinese ones made of cheese.
Anyone recommend a decent set from a known manufacturer?
For example;
I've had a Bosch TiN coated 1-10mm set for a few years, only managed to snap the 3mm one (replaced it with a cobalt one) I do have a few fractional mm smaller sizes, but would have little need for them all the way up.
OTOH you *can* buy a lot of gold-coloured cheese for a few quid and treat them as consumable/mislayable
Last year I bought "DeWalt Extreme 2 HSS Drill Bit Set 29Pc" from Axminster - they are staggeringly good BUT are quite aggressive so easier to use them in a pillar drill than hand held.
That looks pretty good value if the usual Makita high quality. Lidl sometimes do an 0.5 - 10mm set in a steel case at a bargain price. Bought a few sets - so dunno if they've been on offer recently. They are fine for normal use.
I'm not greatly enamored of DeWalt after the shitty electric screwdriver I bought; no torque, crap battery life. OTOH, the boots are very good!
I've been buying the Milwaukee twinpacks of individual sizes from Toolstation to replace the ones I break in my Chinesium jobbing set and they're very good. Dunno if they do a full box - not got a catalogue to hand.
Lidl had sets of drill bits last month 1.5?10mm 12 sizes 15 pieces in plastic case. Also wood drill bits, masonry bits, and driver bits in similar cases, £3.90 or thereabouts.
Chinesium! Marvellous. :o)
They might as well have had pet unicorns for all the good that does. I'll just go back in time and buy some, shall I?
+1
The only thing I have that is DeWalt are my boots. The last SDS DeWalt was shit and the boots are not as good as they used to be.
I am back on Makita and Bosch tools.
And the trousers will always be Snickers.
That's the one. I find them fine for general use - especially at the price.
You get Lidl/Aldi to send you emails giving their special offers each week. These drill sets come up regularly, and don't have a 'use by' date.
I dont know that these tin coated and cobalt drill bits are worth any extra. I tried a cobalt drill bit in a circular saw blade once and I might as well have been pissing in the wind.
Which is fine if there is a convient Lidl, there isn't. I don't recall seeing twist drill sets in Aldi, tip and spur, yes but dubious looking quality.
Nor here. The Lidl "store finder" won't even suggest one.
I get fed up with "store finders" that get it stupidly wrong.
I am in East Kent and get told that a branch of 'X' is only 20 miles away.
Yeah. In Southend. If I had a boat.
LOL. When we were looking for houses within 5 miles of the North Somerset coast, I got so pissed off with Rightmove suggesting houses in South Wales, I wrote them a snotty email. They did say they were going to fix it, but I haven't looked recently.
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