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05-08-2009, 05:45 PM
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does anyone else use these bits?
I have a set, and these suckers are MEAN!!!, takes a good drill to run em, but they go through so much faster than spade bits. They have a pilot bit on the tip of them that draws the bit through, don't have to push it through the stud untill the last 1/4-1/2" once the pilot bit has come out the other side.
Or maybe I've just been using cheap spade bits, LOL. Another thing, these bits last and last and last
Irwin speedbor max
http://www.amazon.com/Irwin-Industri...1822372&sr=1-1
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05-08-2009, 05:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fr8train
I have a set, and these suckers are MEAN!!!, takes a good drill to run em, but they go through so much faster than spade bits. They have a pilot bit on the tip of them that draws the bit through, don't have to push it through the stud untill the last 1/4-1/2" once the pilot bit has come out the other side.
Or maybe I've just been using cheap spade bits, LOL. Another thing, these bits last and last and last
Irwin speedbor max
http://www.amazon.com/Irwin-Industri...1822372&sr=1-1 |
Just the latest take on a ship's auger. 
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05-08-2009, 06:12 PM
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Fentoozler
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I prefer a regular old ship auger.
I bought one of those "new" style ones a year or three ago....used it once.
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05-08-2009, 08:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by neolitic
Just the latest take on a ship's auger. |
actually a very short ships auger
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05-08-2009, 09:06 PM
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I haven't used the irwins yet but I borrowed a green lee ship auger bit from an electrician once to drill a hole and they are a great bit. Pretty expensive but well worth it.
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05-08-2009, 09:23 PM
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quiglag, those bosch bits look pretty nice. To my eye, the Irwin's look like 2 of them put together, but with more of a twist so the pilot and the tip look the same, but the Irwin's look like a regular drill bit going up the side. That video was pretty impressive. 
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05-08-2009, 10:47 PM
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They are decent, but they have the same problem of most self-feeding bits, onece they dull a touch you have to lean on them the get through that last bit of wood.
Greenlee augers are great for the first few months until you sharpen the cutting point down to nothing then they are fit for the bin. Irwin's are a nice auger, hilti has a nice auger, milwaukee too. The Ideal cuts like nothing else but since its a double cutter then clog in long cuts and if they get jammed are impossible to get out.
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