Plunge Drilling – Bench Dog Jig - Part III

[vinht]

Rod,

I'm coming in late on this thread but I wanted to commend you on the amount of care you take in doing something as rudimentary as drilling holes. I say this in a good and admirable way. It takes an incredible amount of patience and attention to detail. When I drilled my dog holes I simply used a piece of scrap with a hole drilled from my DP as a guide.

Thanks for sharing,
Vinh

[LCHIEN]

quote:Originally posted by RodKirby

Drill bits in Oz are very easy to get in either inches or mms. I have sets of both.

...

See! a conspiracy to get you to buy twice as many bits and tools as you need. I have a couple of sets each of mm and SAE wrenches, sockets etc.
and now I'm feeling the need for another set of (metric) drill bits.

I think the tool companies missed a bet... (or not)
I have 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" drive socket sets with sockets in metric and SAE sizes.

Do European tool comapnies sell ratchets and socket drivers in 6mm, 9mm and 12 mm drives? And do they sell both inch and metric fastener sized sockets with metric drives? With all the combinations of metric and SAE drives and fasteners you could sell four times as many tools as they do now and it would take twice as long to do any job if we randomly mixed fastener types like the US Auto manufactuers managed to do in the 80's with SAE body hardware and metric engines.

If they make them close enough we could have a hard time telling the 6mm sockets drives from 1/4" socket drives and be constantly wearing tools out from mismatched tools and fasteners.

Am I being too sarcastic here?[}]

[RodKirby]

Loring - check this out:

http://www.justtools.com.au/prod891.htm

[nmorning]

Thanks, Rod. That is what I want my dawg holes to look like (remember I live in the South). I don’t recognize the plunge drill & base since I am not accustom to working with good tools until the BT. What is it? Where can I get it

[RodKirby]

Nick - here 'tis http://www.triton.net.au/products/pd.html

Triton (Oz company) is also sold in the USA and Canada. Bounce around the site to find contact numbers.