Tips For Drilling Stainless Steel
"Tips" does not denote authoritative last-word instructions, rather ideas that help folks who are first timers or frustrated second timers. Very expensive made-in-USA (Germany / Sweden) drills are ...
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Agree 100% about Japan and knives. But for tooling even the Czech are a fair bit better than even the Japanese. But then again NTN bearings are superior. But Korean, Taiwanese, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Thailand, and Indonesia are way behind the cut.
USA electric furnace steel alloy is the finest in the world and the priciest per gram weight. How Germany can beat the retail prices in the USA is beyond me. Maybe greed enters into this...I managed to get my mitts on one, a single drill from Lockheed. Very short like an aircraft special. Had a built in depth stop. Heaviest drill for it's size I have ever picked up. The drill was hidden in a four foot wide spool of electric wire. A man passed behind me and remarked "Don't let them see that. They have a serial number and are not allowed to leave"
Sure as heck a man in slacks with a white shirt, tie and ID clipped to his pocket walked up and said "Sorry, that 'piece' is not part of the auction".
Dang!
I did however get a roll of 19 AWG wire. Silver color throughout, not copper. But it soldered like a champ. A tad under nine pounds spool and all if I remember right. Some light-fingered @#$%&! walked off with it in the yard a week or so after I brought it back.
I used some of the cobalt Milwaukee drills I bought a couple of weeks ago. They are good quality (always suspicious of sale items from Home Depot).
USA electric furnace steel alloy is the finest in the world and the priciest per gram weight. How Germany can beat the retail prices in the USA is beyond me. Maybe greed enters into this...I managed to get my mitts on one, a single drill from Lockheed. Very short like an aircraft special. Had a built in depth stop. Heaviest drill for it's size I have ever picked up. The drill was hidden in a four foot wide spool of electric wire. A man passed behind me and remarked "Don't let them see that. They have a serial number and are not allowed to leave"
Sure as heck a man in slacks with a white shirt, tie and ID clipped to his pocket walked up and said "Sorry, that 'piece' is not part of the auction".
Dang!
I did however get a roll of 19 AWG wire. Silver color throughout, not copper. But it soldered like a champ. A tad under nine pounds spool and all if I remember right. Some light-fingered @#$%&! walked off with it in the yard a week or so after I brought it back.
I used some of the cobalt Milwaukee drills I bought a couple of weeks ago. They are good quality (always suspicious of sale items from Home Depot).
