Best place to get Brad Point Bits

Try Lee Valley.

Agree, don't buy from Harbor Freight they are off center!

Have you checked the local hardware store? The ACE Hardware a couple of blocks from me has them individually and in sets. Greg

You know, I was going to try the ACE. They did have some individual bits one time when I checked. They may have some brad points.

Make sure they are high speed steel and not carbon steel. I bought one of those sets (carbon) and they are sharp, but quickly lost their edge. max

I bought a small Bosch set and they are excellent. max

Eric Anderson asks:

Lee Valley has the widest selection of excellent brad point bits of any company I know of, in both inch and metric dimensions.

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Yup - and they're made in USA too....right here in Ottawa Ontario, Canada.

Funny how country of origin rules work...! We start with normal made in USA twist drills (Triumph- made in USA), and re-grind the tips....since there's no "substantial transformation" - they retain the made in USA designation for the US market.

The same drills purchased from us in Canada are marked "Made in Canada" - as the value added component is more than 50% of the final cost...different rules, different country of origin....

Cheers -

Rob

Barry

I call it "Lee's (Iacocca) Law."

US carmakers want you to "Buy American." Understandable. BUT Chrysler moved a lot of engineering and manufacturing to Canada.

So if you look at a car, it says "Proudly Made in the USA*," and if you follow the * down, it says, "Contains at least 50% US and Canadian content."

All because Lee Iacocca wined and dined a few dozen Congresscritters.

Then Damlier Benz bought 'em and now MB outsources their skilled manufacturingn jobs . . . to the US.

An awful lot of Chrysler parts are made in Mexico. My '99 Jeep Wrangler is full of them. The imported parts content is huge.

Barry

Charles Krug notes:

I'm not sure when Chrysler first outsourced from Canada, but it pre-dates Iacocca by one helluva number of years. My first Chrysler product, bought new at Northway Motors in Albany, NY, was a '67 Barracuda with an appreciable number of "Made in Canada" parts.

If Daimler-Benz is outsourcing their skilled work to the same factory that built my current Dodge Stratus, they are in a WORLD of hurt!

Charlie Self "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Mark Twain

Same as the IBM PCs. Most parts made in Mexico and they were pure junk.

Bill Stock responds:

'S OK now, though. IBM sold about 82% of their PC outfit to a Chinese company.

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