What make of drill and drill bits should I buy?

[snowcat]

thease are the bits I use, designed and built for steel fixers....... they are excellent....If your going to buy cobalt buy top end.... the cheep so called cobarts are Nasty, a good one could cost upto £25 for something like a M12 but god they last...

Just to add to fluffs, Iv seen a thumb Destroyed due to cheep drill bits, the bit exploded whilst tail stock drilling on the lathe, the shards embeded in his thumb to such a degree it could not be saved.......The other thing that I shuder at is useing emery cloth to polish spining parts, common practice it seem's by model enginners....

 

[yarpap]

Evening,dormer every time and thats using stainless steel,use a quality cutting fluid like rocol and learn to sharpen your drills,dont try to drill at full speed.
as an apprentice whilst on the center lathe we where taught to final polish work with emery but not wraped around the work piece ,we either used a wood batten with the emery on or when the instructor wasnt looking a flat file ,but you cant half feel the work trying to push the emery away,and never use gloves
dave

 

[Wozzaaah]

+1 (strongly) on anything that has a rotating spindle or workpiece.
The reason I was told (and makes sense) is that if you touch a hand or finger to a spindle, yes it gets a tiny bit wounded, *BUT* the gloves snag, and being threaded fibres by nature wind you in.
I have seen some very graphic pictures of people who have been wound in by machinery, and I never ever ever want to be the one mashed to pieces by a machine being cleaned off with a hose.
Gloves/loose fitting clothing/long hair + machines DO NOT MIX!
I take splinters out with a pair of vernier calipers, I hardly get any nowadays since I started using the hoover to take care of milling chips...

Only click this link if your of strong constitution. Its very very graphic and you have been warned. Ignore the comments from the idiots.
http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/articles/This+Is+Twisted
Ill guarentee you think twice about the rigger gloves afterwards...
The concensus on the machinsts forums is he was filing in the chuck, and it caught jerking his arm. Where his loose fitting jumper snagged the workpiece and wound round tightly dragging him in. RIP the unknown machinist, now he can serve as a warning to others.

Why oh why did I have to click that link??

Just goes to show how dangerous machinery is though .
Poor guy.

 

[nellway]

I was too squeamish - i didn't open it...