it's Friday fool and you need this tool
welcome back to the glorious episode of it's Friday fool you need this tool my
name is Kyle Voss and every Friday I bring you a tool a tool that I use
here in this shop or that I have featured on this channel do anything
like me you use drill bits a lot and because you use them a lot you end up
quiring tons and tons of them for various reasons sometimes because they
get dull and you just buy new ones or you break them or sometimes you just
can't find what you need but you have multiples well today's tool is going to
help you with the first of those no more dull drill bit no more wasting your time
trying to drill a hole no more smoking Wohlers bins Wohlers the word because
this week's tool is the drill doctor drill doctor so if you're not familiar
with the drill doctor basically what this is is a drill bit sharpener and it
makes the job really easy for you there's no kind of guessing on how the
drill bit needs to be aligned how it needs to do this how it needs to do that
to get the perfect drill bit edge now I'm sure there's a lot of you old-timers
out there that think you can sharpen these with your grinder and they're fun
you probably can you can probably sharpen this with a grinder you kind of
know what you're doing and get a halfway decent drill bit tip out of the deal but
this is the thing you really want a good sharpened drill
bit you got to do is the right way you got cutting edge you got a heel edge
you got a relief angle all these things play into how that drill bit is going to
perform when you go to use it this does it all for you so quite simply this is
how it works you got drill bit there needs to be
sharpened it's got this little Chuck that the drill bit goes in this machine
has two sides to it so on this side so on this side it's got this little place
where the Chuck slides into so it's a little lever and press this lever these
little arms hang out basically what you want to do just loosely put your drill
bit in the chuck the hanging out approximately about an inch no it does
it just slides in here lined up
let's chug this slides in here lined up in a particular way so basically this
Chuck has a mark on it and so does the machine at 118 degrees and that's how
you want to line it up once the drill bit is in your bottom it out on this
little plate and then it has these little arms that you'll want to align
with the teeth on the bit itself so you just open it up when you close it it
kind of aligns that bit where it should be
once it's done you kind of tighten this chuck up a little bit pull it out
tighten it up a little bit more if you want to then you just flip it around so
on this side inside it has a diamond coated wheel diamond carbide coated
wheel that's what's actually going to sharpen the bit for you and the way this
thing works is once the the Chuck goes in there it's made to wobble this bit in
a precise precise particular fashion and that wobble is what causes it to cut
properly give it the proper give it the proper relief angle give it the proper
edge make sure the heel is where it should be make sure that the center is
perfectly even and as you roll this thing around you know these are going to
cut both sides exactly the same you can kind of see something wobbles so once
you have that done you just turned on
give it three or four passes as you can see we've got a nice shiny tip now slide
your bid out and you have a brand new drill bit ready for action nice and
clean nice and sharp done the right way no more issues with grabbing drill bits
that don't work just get hot and smoke noise she's let this thing really is
super easy to use it works excellent the
little diamond wheels underneath they're really easy to replace you can buy these
online just replace them as needed
something like this can really save people a lot of money and drill bits if
you use a lot of drill bits like I do
alright guys there you go this week's tool the drill doctor drill doctor the
drill doctor this model is the xpk there are several models out there of these
right here I'll be sure to link them up for you in the description you can go
check them out I don't know you're a fight with drill bits like I have in the
past this is a great tool to have in your shop generally what I do is I'll
sit down and sharpen them all and then kind of put this thing up until a later
date as always thank you for joining me I will see you guys more this week it's
Friday fool