Last Christmas I was given one of those big sets of incredibly cheap drill and screwdriver bit sets from my neighbour. I hadn’t touched the set until yesterday when I could not find the 5/32″ bits I was using the day before. I grabbed one of the cheap “titanium nitride coated HSS” bits from its plastic box and used it to drill out 3 pop rivets. I say 3, for that is all it managed to do. Wasn’t much to ask was it? The bit dulled quickly and became bent. I looked again at the bit, didn’t seem right to me, what do you think? A less cheap uncoated bit beside it just incase you forget what a regular bit looks like 🙂
shooftie 
#1 by Ed on July 31, 2011 - 9:41 am
maybe you could use those drill bits for twist ties (closing bread packages, etc….)
#2 by albell on August 1, 2011 - 8:16 am
Need more suggestions as what to do with probably 100 bad drillbits…
#3 by oldfussbudget on July 31, 2011 - 6:44 pm
Looks like they hardened the wrong end… ;->
#4 by albell on July 31, 2011 - 6:52 pm
and they couldn’t make up their minds which way the flutes should go.
ab
#5 by oldfussbudget on July 31, 2011 - 7:08 pm
Well of course, they’re transverse flutes. 🙂