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From the Australian site Krafty Farm Assistant comes this great little tool tip for drill bit sharpening.
Get two hex headed bolts and nuts and mount them in a piece of off-cut steel or timber so that two of their edges are touching (as shown).
Bolts of a suitable construction can be welded together to ensure they don’t move.
Sharpen your drill bit carefully using a bench grinder being extra careful not to be too heavy handed.
After only a few moments of grinding, remove the drill bit and test against the two hex headed bolts as shown in the image.
After touching up each cutting side of the drill your drill should fit squarely in the angle of the two bolt heads.
The accuracy obviously relies on how close you placed the two bolts together but with this guide it removes the need to eye ball the angle and hope that it’s right.
As someone points out in the comments, you also need to ensure that the bit being sharpened remains perpendicular to the shanks of the bolts to make sure the cutting edges of the bit are properly angled.
This tip was found on the awesome HandmadeTools site, an encyclopedia of tools that you can make yourself. It’s great to have a central tool-making project repository like this. Many of the tool project articles they list are found on various specialty project forums where content can often be hard to locate. HandmadeTools also offers a free ebook of their most popular tool-building projects when you sign up for their mailing list.
See the original post on Krafty Farm Assistant here.
And check out the HandmadeTools site here.
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The homemade tools site is full of useful tips.
my associate’s stride close relative makes $98 an hour on the portable workstation……….Afterg an average of 19952 Dollars monthly,I’m finally getting 97 Dollars an hour,just working 4-5 hours daily online.….. Weekly paycheck… Bonus opportunities…earn upto $16k to $19k /a month… Just few hours of your free time, any kind of computer, elementary understanding of web and stable connection is what is required…….HERE I STARTED…look over here
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➤➤➤➤ http://GoogleTopMegaJobsNetworkOnlineCenters/$98hourlywork…. =======================================================
Oh, piffle! 19952 dollars monthly? Use my system, and you’ll make that much — and more — BEFORE LUNCH! I made enough money with this system to buy not one, not two, but five brand new Teslas! And then I bought five more, one for my wife, one for my daughter, one for my girlfriend, one for my other girlfriend, and one as a spare! And I did all this the first month on the system! Now, I make $37,842 every minute. Every minute!
So you if you folks want to make some serious cash, go to this website: http://www.IAmACompleteSucker.com and wait for the Big Bucks to start rolling in!
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