Drill bit sharpener

[devonwoody]

Looked in Lydl yesterday.

They have a drill bit sharpener at nearly £20.

Is it any good?

I believe there are other ones about at tool outlets from around £15 plus postage I suppose, any good?

 

[Louise-Paisley]

a bench grinder and the right flick of the wrist is all you need

 

[bugbear]

a bench grinder and the right flick of the wrist is all you need

On that argument, all you need to make a Rembrandt sketch is pencil and paper

BugBear

 

[Louise-Paisley]

a bench grinder and the right flick of the wrist is all you need

On that argument, all you need to make a Rembrandt sketch is pencil and paper

BugBear

true, you do, a Rembrandt would come in handy too

But drill sharpening is actually pretty easy once you get the knack, the only problem being that if the boss finds out you can do it when you are serving your apprenticeship they present you with a box 2 foot long, by 18" wide by about 10" deep full of blunt drill bits and tell you to sharpen them! On the plus side I learned to do it faster.

 

[gregmcateer]

a bench grinder and the right flick of the wrist is all you need

Can you post a quick video of you doing it - I hate throwing out blunt drills.

Thanks in advance! :lol:

Greg

 

[rich.h]

Looked in Lydl yesterday.

They have a drill bit sharpener at nearly £20.

Is it any good?

I believe there are other ones about at tool outlets from around £15 plus postage I suppose, any good?

Not sure about ones from lidl etc but have a look on toolstation they do a multisharp kit for about £15 with free postage, for your total £20 you could get the sharpener along with a coulpe of spare wheels.

They are handy bits of kit if you only use your drill bits in the diy/hobby sense. I happily sharpen hand tools by hand as I use them often enough to make it worthwhile, but if your only blunting a bit every 4-5 months you have to wonder if the hours and hours invested in learning how to sharpen by hand is worth the trade off opposed to a quick 5 minutes zipped on a small sharpener.

For myself the other bonus was the ability to sharpen any kind of drill bit on one device as to learning a new skill along with 4 variants of it's application.

 

[Lons]

I have one like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DRILL-GRINDER ... 5d355210b7 you set it up next to your grinding wheel. I bought it years ago from Machine Mart (worth a look btw). Don't use it often but have a "session" a couple of times a year and it works pretty well.

Bob

 

[heimlaga]

The problems with most cheap drill bit sharpeners is that they get useless as soon as the wheel gets the slightsest bit worn. There are better models which work on the perimeter of the wheel but those are expensive enough to roughly equal the effort needed to learn hand sharpening.

Just my oppinion. Right now I am well on my way to learn hand sharpening. I started with the bigger sizes from 14mm and up because those were said to be easier to sharpen. Lately I have gotten well on the way learning to sharpen small drills.

 

[Noel]

Some help and a little practice and it's not too hard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GID_kRsW ... re=related

 

[Eric The Viking]

I have one like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DRILL-GRINDER ... 5d355210b7 you set it up next to your grinding wheel. I bought it years ago from Machine Mart (worth a look btw). Don't use it often but have a "session" a couple of times a year and it works pretty well.

Bob

I've got an old British one like that. I haven't used it in years, but it was producing results better than new last time I had it fitted to the grinder. The only drawback is that those things are apparently no good with small drills. I'm going to try it with my wet grinder (Dakota), but it's waiting for a permanent location (gets moved about too much at the moment).

E.