Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Best Step Bit I’ve Ever Tested Destroys $123 Snap On Blue Point!" video.

  1. The genuine Unibit was invented and manufactured in Wyoming, NY by Harry C. Oakes. In 1985 he sold the Unibit rights to Petersen (Vise Grips) in Nebraska
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  2.  @stevemorris3710  they say people discovered America before Columbus did too but he gets the credit. That's just how it works. Someone gets famous for it even if they weren't first. Unibit is the first step bit. End of story.
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  3.  @robertteap8052  people made it to America hundreds of years before Columbus did. But they made zero impact. So consequently they get the credit they deserve. Nothing!
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  4.  @butchphillips873  America and American only refers to the United States of America. It's simple really so I think you can get it right. South Americans are exactly that, they're South Americans. An American may also be a North American too but not all North Americans are in fact Americans. Mexico and Canada are in North America and they're not Americans. They're Mexicans and Snow Mexicans.
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  5.  @stco2426  The Bahamas sit on the continental shelf. So what Americans consider is immaterial. North and South America are continents. America is a country. We have territories in the Bahamas too. So sovereign US soil.
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  6.  @jimmatthews5993  Columbus wasn't the first but he's still credited with discovering the New World. So, who invented the lightbulb? I'll tell you right now it certainly wasn't Edison. Dozens of people made lightbulbs before he did. Yet he's the only person anyone can remember his name. So he gets the credit. You know why? Because we don't celebrate invention, we celebrate success. We like winners. Your boy was a loser too.
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  7.  @charlesdalton985  a step bit can only deburr one side unless you pass it through the other way. Which is not always a viable option. Rotary deburring tools work brilliantly on holes. Just put it in there and crank it around.
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  8. With tools today there's no consistency or quality control. These companies are going to factories and just having their names put on stuff. So from batch to batch it's catch as catch can. You might get what Todd got and you might not.
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  9. The concept of step drill bits is so good even the junky ones are good for what they are. But higher quality materials and manufacturing can put some over others.
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  10. Yeah I usually drill a pilot hole for a step bit. It makes it go a lot better.
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  11.  @zakn3954  if it's white it's all right.
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  12.  @robertteap8052  Americans invented everything. So there's that.
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  13.  @lohikarhu734  a Unibit from the 1970s would be an original manufacture bit. That's a real step drill.
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  14.  @Thinkableness  no one knows the limits of their ability.
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  15.  @ChevyConQueso  I like that
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  16.  @kontoname  ex-squeeze you? Learn how to tell time. No one but you has been here in a month now.
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  17.  @nothankyou5524  the first deserves some credit. Just not as much as the first successful does. Often the first isn't the successful one.
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  18. Todd torture tests products like how most use them. So it's not going to be the proper way. Most wing nuts just go full speed ahead. It's hard metal so we'd better go fast!
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  19. If you're worried about that sort of thing a deburring tool is cheap and easy to use. You want a rotary swivel style one.
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  20. I'd think the original brand would be in the testing. Unibit invented step bits. They're owned by Irwin now. They kind of look like trash compared to older tools. Apparently they're made in China now like all other junk is. I have an original Unibit. It's a nice drill bit.
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  21. At this point all recycled steel probably has some cobalt in it.
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  22. There's a lot of different kinds of stainless steel. Most of it is difficult to machine. Like Todd said stainless work hardens so that means you have to be constantly cutting or it will harden up on you. Which just makes things worse. So to that end you have to apply heavy pressure. Just keep cutting. The bit bouncing on the material will cold work the metal. It happens in a fraction of a second. Then you have a case hardened surface you're trying to drill on. The solution then is to just slam through it. You have to get the bit to bite in and under the hardened skin. Get back into softer material. It's brutal but you're the one trying to drill stainless steel.
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  23. I wouldn't get too confident. From bit to bit grinds can change. That's just the nature of the process. Unless they're constantly dressing the wheel. Which they may be doing. Or they may not be.
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  24. Irwin bought the original brand but offshored manufacturing. So it's the same junk now as everyone else.
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  25.  @leoym1803  in my experience Made in Japan matters with Makita. They have some products made elsewhere and it's just not as good as the Japanese made stuff is. Even made in USA Makita isn't as good as the Japanese made. The Japanese Makita is top quality. Everything else is run of the mill.
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