- Location
- South lakes
best drill sharpener to use as I ain’t gonna keep sharpening drills for others! So they can do there own!!
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Best drill sharpener that’s easy to use
- Thread starter Lakes Nash
- Start date
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
9 inch grinder with a cutting disc in it. Seriously.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Standard bench grinder, just practice and you'll soon get it
- Location
- South lakes
I can, but my lads cannot! So they come, ddaadd! Can you sharpen this!
I have one and don't get on with it. It might be me though but I did it exactly like the instruction book and YouTube said to do.it and still no luck.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Give em only 1 and go hideI can, but my lads cannot! So they come, ddaadd! Can you sharpen this!
There's only one way they're going to learn.I can, but my lads cannot! So they come, ddaadd! Can you sharpen this!
clbarclay
Member
- Location
- Worcestershire
I would like to think they can learn. I think I have just about persuaded my father not to rotate the drill around its axis while it is against the grinder, but old habits die hard.
TechWise
Member
- Location
- South Ayrshire, Scotland
Same here. Very much hit and miss and I've studied the instructions carefully. It went up in a blue flash a couple of days ago too!
I have one of these
It looks to be very similar in design to the Drill Doctor, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper. I find it very easy to use, but as they say ‘horses for courses’, I previously had a Proxon which was incredibly difficult to set up, by comparison the Sealey one is, as I said, very easy.
Alchad
It looks to be very similar in design to the Drill Doctor, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper. I find it very easy to use, but as they say ‘horses for courses’, I previously had a Proxon which was incredibly difficult to set up, by comparison the Sealey one is, as I said, very easy.
Alchad
ACEngineering
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- Location
- Oxon
Some drills have a non standard flute spiral, my 350x does not do my dorma bits very well, there the ones with gold colour rather than black, the flue/spiral is i guess more aggressive at removing swaff faster. that means the drill doctor sharpens it all at the wrong angles no matter what you do with it.
Swarfmonkey
Member
- Location
- Hampshire
Freehand on the bench grinder for drill bits that don't need an ultra accurate grind on them, Brierley for those that do.
Dave W
Member
- Location
- chesterfield
I got a drill doctor and get on very well with it. For me the trick is to keep turning and cutting until it's virtually stopped taking anything off. If you just give it a few revolutions it cuts the tip down but not the metal behind so the tip is no longer the highest point
anyone use of these https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cbs16-electric-drill-bit-sharpener/ or even the LIDL equivalent
bravheart
Member
- Location
- scottish borders
Got the Aldi equivalent and other wonderful gizmos probably amounting to a three figures price cause I refused to pay a three figure sum for a drill doctor bit sharpener.
My drill bits are still f***ing blunt.
MickW
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- Location
- South West
I have the lidl version and it absolutely useless I should have put the money towards something that works well
5 inch grinder with 120 grit ceramic flap wheel