Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "" video.

  1. A pair of hex nuts flat to flat is 120° and the typical drill angle is 118° So definitely close enough.
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  2. Buying new bits is such a waste. If they weren't buying so many bits maybe they could pay you more? You'd like that, wouldn't you?
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  3.  @bigb7157  for exotic material there are certainly exotic tools. At one bit a bore I think they'd want to investigate that. There's diamond coated tools. Cubic boron nitride. Stuff I've never even heard of. But if it was me I'd make it my business to find out.
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  4. If you don't like to sharpen something that just means you don't know how to sharpen it. So whatever you're doing is more difficult and yields poor results. Which people generally don't have positive associations with. So what that feeling really means is that you need to adjust your methods to something more effective.
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  5. Ideally you have a tool room wheel like a Norton white wheel. It costs more but the best things in life always do. Those bluish grayish wheels are just for sizing rebar and whatnot on. Your I have this long piece of steel and I need it a bit shorter jobs. Tool room wheels are softer and that makes them more friable. That also exposes fresh grit so they stay sharper and run cooler. But if you abuse them they are subject to premature wear. Which is why they don't sell them out of hardware stores to random goofballs.
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  6. I think some people just lack spatial relationships. They can't see things. They look but they just can't see. It's not a problem with their eyes. It's a mental issue. They may have an image in their mind of how they think it is that is so strong they cannot replace that with what's really there.
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  7. The Drill Doctor has printed the company that made it money. It's a master class in product development.
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  8. For how much I'm drilling and how unimportant what I do is just freehanding them on a bench grinder is good enough for me. I just need holes. But when I need a hole I do need it. So to that end a bit that's sharper beats a bit that's duller. Trying to drill holes with dull chewed up bits sucks.
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  9. Learning how to freehand sharpen drills is just understanding what you want to do and then doing it. It's one of those things where you have to use the old noodle to get from point A to point B. Which I guess a lot of people don't like to do? Maybe it is the effort they object to? I don't know.
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  10. The angle is dictated by the hardness of the material you're drilling. The harder the more shallow. 118° is the happy medium angle for all materials hard and soft. It'll work in just about anything you're likely to try to drill. Having an off center center makes the drill describe a wider arc. The longer edge is going to cut wider.
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  11. We had a drill sharpener in the production shop I worked in. It wasn't a Drill Doctor though. Mostly we just ran twist bits until they were shot then scrapped them. We'd get a lot of holes out of a single bit so by the time we tossed it that bit didn't owe us a thing. A lot of them I'd blow the bit apart. Split it clean up the web. There'd be nothing to sharpen.
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  12. Hey we can all suck at freehand sharpening. But drill bits are pretty long so that gives you a lot of room to improve.
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  13. Tormeks are a bit on the overpriced side for what they are. The major difference between a Tormek and the cheap ones is the Tormek does have a stainless steel shaft. So the cheapos can rust out if you don't treat them with some marine grease. By the time most folks figure that out the damage is done. Still, you could buy 3 cheapos for what one Tormek costs. I just dry grind and dip. Tormeks are too effing slow.
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  14. I still feel that way based on all the people saying their Drill Doctor works for them. I couldn't get one to work for me. It did that negative angle grind Wes is showing. That's not going to drill anything harder than soft cheese. Freehand sharpening twist drills is a bit of a trick. But if you drill holes it is a trick worth learning in my opinion.
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  15. I bought a Drill Doctor. It was $5 at a yard sale in the box so I picked it up to see what I was missing. Now it sits on the shelf here collecting dust. I never got it to work right. It did that negative rake grind like Wes shows.
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  16. Maybe Drill Doctors work great. But for me it is just too fiddly to get it to work. I tried. There may be tricks to using one that I don't know and can't figure out. Either way I can freehand sharpen bits which makes me less motivated working with a Drill Doctor. I got the one I have cheap at a yard sale in the box. I think I only paid $5 for it? Thing's like brand new.
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  17.  @CrazyHamSales  RTFM doesn't change what the device is. Which is a piece of crap. You're not even supposed to run steel on diamonds. That's because diamonds are carbon and steel has carbon in it too. So something called carbon migration happens. Where the carbon in steel dissolves the diamonds.
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