Garrett Wade used to sell them, and still has a page at their website, but nothing left in stock. Any one else supply them or do I have to scrounge around ebay for used ones?
Mostly I'm interested in the smaller (and thus more fragile) sizes.
Elijah
------ broke his last 3/32nd recently and has no 1/16ths left
I suppose so. The top review when I look at that is "POOR QUALITY: Broke on first use". It's also a bit assortment, which makes it a very expensive way to just get smaller bits.
This is whole drill, at prices that match some bit sets on ebay (specifically the bit sets that are 8 or more of the same size bit).
Same product as first link, different store.
Elijah
------ usually will not use the push drill for holes 1/8" or larger
I bought this one about 5-6 yrs ago, $125 then, for the upholstery shop. Today about $150.... $125 with coupon? Still going strong. Bought another one for the satellite upholstery shop. Plug directly in the wall. Won't work properly using a typical 14g wire extension cord.
They are available at Garrett Wade, I just verified it,
There is a page a Garrett Wade. It shows up in the "clearance" section. I am unable to put bits in the shopping cart. (I can put other things in the shopping cart.) You can hit the + button next to a size and it increases a number, but there's not an "Add to cart" button. It's a terrible interface. I thought I had them till I went to checkout.
Elijah
------ was not impressed
That is odd... when I went to the site there is an Add to Cart button on the page below the list of bits. It works. Did you scroll down?
There is also an 8 bit set listed on
Yes, and tested adding other things to the cart. All before posting about wanting bits.
I did manage websites for money for a while, so I have some idea how things can break or be hard to use. This one definitely fails to work as intended.
Elijah
------ is happily not managing websites any more
Prompted by this, I tried on my phone and it works there, just not on my desktop. I'll buy the bits there, that way, but yikes.
And I happened to notice while visiting the site on my phone that Garrett Wade shows an address of Main St, Brooklyn. That rang a bell with me, and I compared. Kings County Tools, also mentioned in this thread and Garrett Wade have the same street address. So the bits are likely the same, even though Kings County Tools only sells assorted size multipacks and Garrett Wade only sells single size multipacks.
Elijah
------ grew up in Queens and remembers that the Borough of Brooklyn is Kings County
Where in Queens?
I grew up in Flushing, across the street from what used to be the open fields of Queens College.
I lived in the row houses at the bottom of this picture, the house with the blue roof. The area with the square around it was always part of Queens College, but was open field, originally without any fences. Football, frisbee and shagging long fly balls was how we spent our time. Even when they fenced it in, we cut through it so many times they gave up fixing it. We were neat about it, you couldn't even see the opening unless you knew where it was. When we first moved in, Reeves Ave was one step above a dirt road. My "time to leave" clock started ticking when they widened the road and painted the yellow line.
Little Neck. The house had a huge yard. My mom was living there until
2002 or so. She sold it to a neighbor to move somewhere with less upkeep. Since then the house has been demolished and replaced with a McMansion. I've been back to look at it only once. There's no real yard left and it's the biggest building on the block.I know Flushing well. My father grew up there and my sister now lives in my grandparent's home. Flushing sure has changed a lot.
My father's father lived in a house he built in the Bronx, then it passed to my father's aunt, and then my parents lived there until I was five. But the Bronx, well, it changed a lot after WWII. The house is still there, but the area around it has changed a lot from even my memories of the area. The small place next door, where a guy kept his pet pigeons in a cage on the roof has been torn down for a multiplex. The three car garage I remember is gone.
And the neighborhood, while it's been worse, probably still isn't even back up to what it was when I left.
Elijah
------ now living in the house his wife grew up in
Maybe we've crossed paths.
I used to ride my homemade bike on the service road of the LIE trying to see how fast I could make it to Douglaston Plaza. As you know, the service road (Horace Harding Expy) wasn't exactly a quiet country road, even back in 60's. Dodging cars, double parked trucks and running red lights to make time really got the heart pumping.
Holy crap, you ain't kidding. From Wikipedia:
"There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens."
I used to work/hang in downtown Flushing (Main and Roosevelt) which was already shifting in an Asian direction in the early 70's. Gangs were a problem. I've still got a scar from the belt buckle that broke my nose on one particularly rowdy Friday night. That was quite the evening.
The house I lived in was about 1200 sq ft. When my dad sold it in the early
80's, a Chinese family moved in. Mom, Dad, the son and daughter lived on the first floor. Grandma and Grandpa moved into the 2nd floor. The future son-in-law moved into my basement bedroom until the wedding, after which the daughter moved down there with him. That type of thing was (and still is) happening all over Queens.Some things, however, apparently haven't changed - not since 1944, at least. Many a hot summer's night included a trip to the Lemon Ice King of Corona. Looks like it's still going strong.
---- living a much calmer life, less than a mile from the shores of Lake Ontario
My sister lovrs the Chinese restaurants, so it works for her.
I remember when the Woolworth's there closed. Never really a great store, but one I visited many times.
I think I was last there about three years ago. I can't find Italian ices in California. Just one of many things so common in New York that you miss when you leave.
Elijah
------ also kaiser rolls
We used to go to the back alley, basement Chinese restaurants in the original Manhattan Chinatown. Real dives but the best Chinese food made for real Chinese people. Ahh...that big giant bowl of sizzling rice soup served family style.
The only real bagel is a NYC bagel.
I worked in a small shop that made hand made bagels. 2 brothers and me.
I'd arrive at 3 AM and start loading hot bagels from coffin sized bins into paper bags that held 5 dozen each. Then I'd load up a big ole station wagon from stem to stern, top to bottom and deliver bagels to grocery stores and deli's in all 5 boroughs. The classic "leave the baked goods outside the door before they opened" scenario.
The Brooklyn cops stayed in Brooklyn and the Staten Island cops stayed in Staten Island. That meant pedal to the metal on the 2 mile stretch of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. I topped 100 MPH more than once.
DerbyDad
----- also dirty water hot dogs
Running out of electrons when I need them... yes.
Ever been miles from the nearest road carrying all your tools with you? Light and reliable rules!
I've got egg beaters and braces too. There are times where they make a lot of sense... I've got power drills, hammer drills, drywall drivers and a drill press too.
On the Garrett Wade page for the push drills they list the packs with all the available sizes. Currently out of stock so I signed up for a notice when they are in stock. I need another set of bits... I've got a full set in my Stanley push drill handle but need a set for the Yankee.
Every time I use my drill press to hang drywall, the screws break the paper.
I think I need one more pulley on the speed stack.
Funny. I break my back.
You don't have electronically variable speed?
...might be easier to set the depth stop. ;~)
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