Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

[Tinkerer]

Thanks basser289 for recommending cobalt drill bits for hard metal on another of my threads, I tried one on a busted bolt shank I was trying to drill out. Don't know what was in it, but I'd got to a point where it'd chipped the cutting lip out of half a dozen bits and I couldn't get past it. Got a cobalt bit and went straight through it.

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

Re: Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

I hate to be a braggart, but I posted about cobalt before basser did!<br /><br />glad yer hooked up, those bits are deadly, that post about drilling right into cast iron was dead serious, literally like drilling into butter

 

[Tinkerer]

Re: Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

Ray,<br /><br />Sorry to overlook your advice. I went back to the other thread before posting here and found basser and thought that was it. <br /><br />Thanks.

 

[ob]

Re: Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

Them cobalt bits are nice aint they.I got a whole set for B-day.

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

Re: Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

yer welcome, they are some amazing bits, arent they? I have a mechanic buddy that has some diamond tipped bits, he said if you bust a cobalt bit you drill into it with a diamond bit ... if the diamond bit breaks, I dunno, 1 800 CALL GOD, lol<br /><br />or dynamite!<br /><br />

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

Re: Cobalt drill bits are the way to go - thanks Castaway Ray & basser 289

someone loves ya ob, lol, dems spensive sum de biotches ...<br /><br />sometime in the last 15 years, my cobalts took a walk, should have had them locked away in the MAC box, where I had the rest of the good stuff - eh, who knows, if I need one ill just go to NAPA and get one<br /><br />my snap on ez outs are amongst the missing as well, THEY were pretty damned good, I hate snap on cause they are so ridiculously high priced, but they do hang in there ... of course, Mac makes a damn good product as well, they just dont have the range that snap has<br /><br />Craftsman is the way to go for the shade tree mechanic tho, bust em, box em, and take the whole mess in every few months, and I used to like scouring flea markets for busted Craftsman tools ... its like buying brand new tools for a quarter or fifty cents, lol