/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Also DONT buy the dewalt pilot point bits (their only 29p set has them), dont buy Milwaukee with their gimmick axis point bits, dont listen to "variable helix" gimmicks. Its marketing trash and in the case of the grind, its actually a hindrance in most cases.
Cobalt is harder and will drill harder material like Stainless, its much more brittle and youll break them easier, so only pay the extra if you know you need it. Also m35 cobalt is barely a cobalt bit, look for m42 cobalt (another thing they usually wont tell you at the low end, milwaukees and irwins cobalt are m35 trash)

The actual higher end expensive stuff is way way fucking better but will still snap and break if you let it jump around.
Norseman Viking, PTD, Morse, Triumph, RMT, Cleveland, Chicago latrobe and more
They will tell you right off the bat if its M2, or M7 or m35 or m42 or anything special.

Another big thing, ebayers sell no name chinese bits in USA made Huot boxes and will claim stuff. Do not trust or buy these.
Drill America does NOT sell USA made drill bits, Drill Hog does NOT sell USA made drill bits. They put chinese bits into a USA made Huot box, charge double and then are ambigous about it all.
Huot does not make drills, they make metal drill bit index boxes, thats it, do not get fooled by it.

SAE sized drills normally come in 3 different sets, Fractional , Letter, and Number sizes from #60 to 1/2". Number is wire gauge sizes, fractional is 64ths/32nds/16ths etc, letter is in between.
So when you see a 29pc fractional set its 1/16 to 1/2, a number set its #60 to #1 and letter A to Z. You can get all 3 in one cass as a 115pc set. Norseman sells one, quality USA made m2 Drills for $199 from Bowers on ebay. Its the perfect set for stepping up into real drill bits. Check the chart and see the overlaps of the whole set, its very useful for machinists maybe not as much for others.

Its pretty much a crapshoot at the low end, and lots of money at the high end, no middle ground.