Some great tips in there Jimmy! The reason the drill goes straight through the dowel when holding the drill by hand is because of the same principle that lathes work, it's impossible to drill a hole at an angle while the material is spinning basically. The stepped drill is also great when drilling holes in plastic sheeting material, like in enclosures or other boxes. A regular drill bit has a tendency to snag and pull itself in, leaving you with a hole which has the profile of the drill, flutes and all, and a nightmare to redrill. The stepped drill helps a lot with keeping the holes round. Cheers for these!
I used the dowel tip at work for stainless steel rods. They already had tapped holes at the ends, but the holes needed to be widened and made deeper, so I used your tip and chucked the rods in the drill-press and the drill bit in the vise. Worked pretty well! Thank you, Jimmy!
Jimmy, for cutting, drilling, tapping, milling etc. aluminum, ethanol or methanol is a way better lubricant/cooler than oil. I used to make tools for vacuum forming in aluminum and ethanol was all we used. Drilling 1mm holes or stripping a 40mm alu sheet with a circular saw. All good with ethanol as lubricant.
Another great PoorMan's tip is to use an IV line and an used IV bag suspended above the Drill Press. The bag is used to hold the lubricant you need and the flow control (a bended metal sheet or a plastic valve) lets you choose betwen controled lubricant driping, full stream and everything in between. A flexible support made o steel wire in the open end serves very well to position the stream and basket placed beneath the working area let you reuse the lubricant mix (after some filtration). Thanks Jimmy DiResta for sharing so many great stuff everytime.
Jimmy, that drill-angle-block-onsite-drillpress thing is a great idea! Aluminum is the spruce of the machinists, it works with almost all woodworking tools, so I am not too suprised that the forstner bit works :)
Stefan Gotteswinter I agree...i use the rasp file on my knife handle aluminum elements...works like a charm,try it with machining file...NOPE...NOT TODAY SIR...aluminum sticks to it like a glue.
For perpendicular holes, nothing beats a drill block. If I need one in a pinch, I use the drill press to make a hole in some hardwood stock, then clamp the block to the piece I need the hole in. Spike seems especially happy with his new home. Thanks for the great vids Jimmy!
sydnius What happens if you don't have a drill press to make that block with?, if the tool makers made the drill with a straight back then maybe ran a slot down that back you could use a speed square in to guide your drill bit then that would be much better.
jimmydiresta Really usefull tips there jimmy :) - When the glue loosens in some older, cheaper chairs that are put together using dowels I take them appart and try to glue them again. The problem is that sometimes on the dowel itself (if it holds in one side for good) theres some residual glue left. I bought some scrap steel tubing in the most important dowel sizes like 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm ID ( +2 mm OD ) and cut a serrated edge on a piece of the tube (like a 10 cm long piece) with a small triangle file or a angle grinder. Works great for cleaning up the glue without destroying the dowel or reducing it in size. - I actually use the "nail-drill" pretty regularly when installing glazing beads that are made out of soft wood. - We have a sharpening jig in the toolbox that can be installed on the drill itself. Its a great tool to have when on site and the drill goes dull...
They aren't listening! As much as I agree with the form-follows-function philosophy, tool companies design drills to catch the eye of the homeowner dad who has a shelf to fix this weekend. There are far more guys like that than there are specialists, so far more revenue, and far more incentive to target that demographic. I get a new tool, I start modding it immediately: chopping off guards, straps, and other pieces of useless plastic weight that were put there just to snag that impulse buyer. Anyhow, thanks for the tips Mr. DiResta! Loved the drilling down a dowel one.
Hey jimmydiresta, Thank you for sharing your DiResta Jimmy Tips 7. I learned a few things. I'm 54 years old and I wait and smile when Spike shows up. lol :D Peace & Joy
I'm 72 years old and I also wait for the parts of Spike showing up! This is nothing new though... when I was a youngster I used to read Walt Disney comics. If I read a Gyro Gearloose comic, I would immediately go through it again frame by frame and search for Little Helper the "lightbulb" man. We get older... we don't change! :o)
Here's a nice tip for drilling round holes into thin sheets of aluminum. It also works for other metals. Drilling a hole with a (cordless) drill, or even with a column drill, the hole might end up looking more like a pentagon, rather than a perfect round one. A nasty effect many of us might recognize. The trick is to take a 1 inch square piece of felt or very thick cloth and put a few large drops of very thick oil onto it. Now, first drill into the metal, but ONLY make a small dent !! That dent will be/should be round. Lift the drill bit and lay down the oil soaked square of felt or cloth with its center over the dent. Now gently drill the hole, drilling right through the felt. If done well, the hole is much rounder, if not perfectly round !! The reason this works is: eliminating resonance. The drill bit starts to resonate, creating a five pointed hole. Get rid of the resonance and you're done !! Using a (much) shorter drill bit also helps a lot. Another nice side effect is that the oil helps to lubricate the drill bit and the felt or cloth removes burrs. For the most part, usually. A simple and cheap trick, but it really works ! However, for every hole you need another piece of felt. The one you just used got trashed in the process, ofcourse ! ;-)
Jimmy DiResta Thanks for another great set of tips! When I was a kid I made a kind of vertical lathe out of my dad's drill press. I nailed a nearly round piece of, I think ash, and put the nail in the chuck. I did not pin the bottom and forgot to lower the speed. Whoops! The thing spun so fast, it bent the nail and threw my little piece of wood like a big league fastball! So remember to pin the bottom and lower the RPMs was the lesson for me. Thanks again for the great ideas!
jimmydiresta Thanks very much for that Jimmy. I cant get enough of these vids and the flat edge on the drill seems so obvious you should design and patton a model. I no id buy it. All the best.
Dude, I'm a welder fabricator who's trying to get into woodworking, n your vids r perfect for me ;-) passing on your experience is invaluable to someone like me, as u know both metal n wood work VERY differently, I have the metal knowledge, n I'm trying to gain the wood knowledge, so for u to do these vids is a God send man! I also luv that u work with all mediums to, very creative and no nonsense, respect Jim, proper bloke :-D
Thanks for sharing your talent and expertise. So many gr8 tips and tricks. The timing couldn't be better for me as I'm about to get my 1st drill press : D Thanks again, Rodney
This is excellent, love this series of tips and tricks, I'm an engineer and love hearing new tricks and trade tips, and yours are excellent so thanking for sharing your trade secrets!
I never thought of the oil dip under the drill press.... GREAT idea! I went one step further and adapted an old ring clamp from a bunsen burner stand to hold a small stainless steel cup full of oil, under the hole in my elderly drill press.... WORKS GREAT! I also never though of looking in Pablo's cathouse for missing tools, since he likes to watch your videos with Spike in them. We'll never know what he had planned for the power hacksaw I found in there but.... he's no longer allowed to watch your videos alone!
The dowel! That's great for making stand-offs. Also, I actually made a carbide bladed tool that you can put in the drill, and run forward, that does what the file does, and with and with a bigger hole. But it turned into a science project in terms of blade angles, and machining. But I've till got one, and it's a great idea. I love your videos. It's inspiring me to stay creative.
Awesome Jimmy! I especially like the dowel rod trick! I needed to drill through dowel once before to make standoffs to mount a model airplane engine. I had to locate a drill press, had I known this before it wouldn't have been a problem.
I used the same trick for drilling new holes in my granite counter top for my bathroom. The bit for drilling the holes does not come with a center drill, worked great! By the way, I love the clips you put in with your cat :)
Here's one, any drill bit is going to be harder than whatever you're drilling, so if you don't have a scribe handy a drill bit makes a good impromptu one. They're all at least high speed steel, or if you've got the big bucks they're carbide, so you'll never hurt the bit doing that unless you try it with a micro drill
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have been racking my brain on how to keep my kids from reading books. I can't trust them as far as I can throw them. Every time I turn my back my kids try to read books. It is enough to drive a parent crazy. Now I have one less problem to worry about. Thanks Diresta!
Absolutely agree with the flat-topped drill comment. All the decent belt sanders have flat tops for using them in an alternative configuration - drills should get the same treatment.
Hi Jimmy, a tip I learned as a young fella from an old fella - when machining aluminium, don't use oil....use parafin, you will be amazed. Love your vids
Spike is a beast!! I have bruises on my ribs due to cutting into copper with hole saw bits. Next time I'll try my forearm/wrist. Keep the videos coming, thumbs up. If I was somebody, I would get Jimmy+David tated on my body.
Really enjoy your tips and tricks videos. They always remind me of some of the old guys I've worked with in the past. A lot these things I've been doing for years and have learned from old timers Luess I always took them for granted and assume they were more common knowledge
jimmydiresta With the clamp and file..if you put the clamp the way of the twist it would act as a stop for the work piece...allow the piece to turn onto the bar of the clamp and continue on..
***** So true, I say the same thing all the time. And as a corollary, beware of those who have to tell you they have common sense, as they often do not. Their "common" is not necessarily the same "common" as they think it is.
Thanks Jimmy for another excellent video in your "Tips" series. Watching these videos provides insight into many of the techniques you use in your making videos. I recognize that those "Making" videos are fast-paced for entertainment purposes and for professional reasons (as you are sometimes working for a client) so I greatly appreciate the Tips series; It has reduced the number of times I have to rewind during the Making videos, asking myself "what exactly did he do there?" Thanks again, and please keep them coming.
Thanks for the tips, I will definitely be using some of these. Now here's a tip from me. If you need to drill through very hard steel and you don't have metal drill bits that can do so, you can use a stone drill and sharpen it like a metal drill bit. Just don't sharpen or overheat it too much or the diamond plate will fall out of the tip.
+jimmydiresta When we need to pilot a small hole, we will clip the bottom piece off a wire coat hanger and use it as a pilot bit. Works especially well with carpet.
These are awesome tips! For drill bits, about 2-3 times a year Menards has their crazy large pack of like 200 drill bits for $10 after rebate. Believe it or not, they're decent bits. They also give you many, many, many small (easily broken) bits and only a few of the larger. I love the breaks with the cat, especially when it took your drill! :)
Some great tips! I don't have a drill press, so I'm going to make one of those sliding guides you had at the start of the video this weekend. Thank you Jimmy!
Well, i haven't read all 456 comments, but I suggest that you mill a slot for depth stop on the vertical drill guide (first tip shown). Maybe a couple of holes for dowels in the base too, for centering the guide on a piece of stock.
Great tips! Please keep them coming because I learn something new every time. At the end of the video, you see spike looking back at his castle. He worked hard stealing it and getting it in there without your knowledge. (Dave ratted on him) Poor Spike, he's wondering why you took his drill away.
a sharpened tube drills holes in nomex honeycomb too. I tried this today after seeing this video a while back. after looking like the hero I felt obligated to come find the video and comment.
0:09 RIP Spike 0:51 drills still look like sneakers 3:10 still remember this one 4:39 I always like the makeshift hole punch 6:34 done this with the ice pick just gotta be easy not to break the glue bond 7:49 I do this all the time I’ve seen people put use 2 hole saws as one. I’m sure you’ve seen it to. 9:33 I’ve used router bits as well on aluminum. 13:31 I must’ve learned this from you. Been doing it on high risk holes. 14:18 I’ve used the drill doctor good product 16:37 good classic tips
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Some great tips in there Jimmy! The reason the drill goes straight through the dowel when holding the drill by hand is because of the same principle that lathes work, it's impossible to drill a hole at an angle while the material is spinning basically.
The stepped drill is also great when drilling holes in plastic sheeting material, like in enclosures or other boxes. A regular drill bit has a tendency to snag and pull itself in, leaving you with a hole which has the profile of the drill, flutes and all, and a nightmare to redrill. The stepped drill helps a lot with keeping the holes round.
Cheers for these!
The first one was by far my favorite!
***** now if only a tool maker would listen and do the right thing.
John Smith good luck with that...
I used the dowel tip at work for stainless steel rods. They already had tapped holes at the ends, but the holes needed to be widened and made deeper, so I used your tip and chucked the rods in the drill-press and the drill bit in the vise. Worked pretty well! Thank you, Jimmy!
I’ve been watching your videos for years and still come back to watch the tip videos. My favorite!
Jimmy, for cutting, drilling, tapping, milling etc. aluminum, ethanol or methanol is a way better lubricant/cooler than oil. I used to make tools for vacuum forming in aluminum and ethanol was all we used. Drilling 1mm holes or stripping a 40mm alu sheet with a circular saw. All good with ethanol as lubricant.
Another great PoorMan's tip is to use an IV line and an used IV bag suspended above the Drill Press. The bag is used to hold the lubricant you need and the flow control (a bended metal sheet or a plastic valve) lets you choose betwen controled lubricant driping, full stream and everything in between. A flexible support made o steel wire in the open end serves very well to position the stream and basket placed beneath the working area let you reuse the lubricant mix (after some filtration). Thanks Jimmy DiResta for sharing so many great stuff everytime.
Jimmy, that drill-angle-block-onsite-drillpress thing is a great idea!
Aluminum is the spruce of the machinists, it works with almost all woodworking tools, so I am not too suprised that the forstner bit works :)
Stefan Gotteswinter I agree...i use the rasp file on my knife handle aluminum elements...works like a charm,try it with machining file...NOPE...NOT TODAY SIR...aluminum sticks to it like a glue.
cut the tips off they work great in the lathe, 38mm is the largest I have bored no problems.Use small drills first.
I was taught that trim nail/drill trick as an apprentice 30 years ago and you are the only other person I know that uses it. That really made my day!
For perpendicular holes, nothing beats a drill block. If I need one in a pinch, I use the drill press to make a hole in some hardwood stock, then clamp the block to the piece I need the hole in.
Spike seems especially happy with his new home. Thanks for the great vids Jimmy!
sydnius What happens if you don't have a drill press to make that block with?, if the tool makers made the drill with a straight back then maybe ran a slot down that back you could use a speed square in to guide your drill bit then that would be much better.
jimmydiresta
Really usefull tips there jimmy :)
- When the glue loosens in some older, cheaper chairs that are put together using dowels I take them appart and try to glue them again.
The problem is that sometimes on the dowel itself (if it holds in one side for good) theres some residual glue left. I bought some scrap steel tubing in the most important dowel sizes like 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm ID ( +2 mm OD ) and cut a serrated edge on a piece of the tube (like a 10 cm long piece) with a small triangle file or a angle grinder.
Works great for cleaning up the glue without destroying the dowel or reducing it in size.
- I actually use the "nail-drill" pretty regularly when installing glazing beads that are made out of soft wood.
- We have a sharpening jig in the toolbox that can be installed on the drill itself. Its a great tool to have when on site and the drill goes dull...
Great tip on the steel tubing vs. old glue on dowels. I'm putting THAT tip in my tool bag. Thanks.
They aren't listening! As much as I agree with the form-follows-function philosophy, tool companies design drills to catch the eye of the homeowner dad who has a shelf to fix this weekend. There are far more guys like that than there are specialists, so far more revenue, and far more incentive to target that demographic.
I get a new tool, I start modding it immediately: chopping off guards, straps, and other pieces of useless plastic weight that were put there just to snag that impulse buyer. Anyhow, thanks for the tips Mr. DiResta! Loved the drilling down a dowel one.
Yep. Thank you brother
1eazrx
hey can you suggest me a good quality drill for home needs
Manish, it is not the best but for the money you really can't beat the Ridged portable tools at Home Depot.
+Manish Shukla Use makita or dewalt, they both work very well
This was super awesome! The flat side of the drill trick for parallel holes was my fav.
that blew my mind how simple yet incredibly useful that is
My 5 year old will watch the entire video with me waiting for spike to show up. She was genuinely concerned when he stole the drill.
I hope she was able to get to sleep. Salts
+Dustin Penner I am 22 years old and I also wait for the parts of spike showing up!
I am 42 years old and I also wait for the parts of spike showing up! :)
Hey jimmydiresta, Thank you for sharing your DiResta Jimmy Tips 7. I learned a few things. I'm 54 years old and I wait and smile when Spike shows up. lol :D Peace & Joy
I'm 72 years old and I also wait for the parts of Spike showing up! This is nothing new though... when I was a youngster I used to read Walt Disney comics. If I read a Gyro Gearloose comic, I would immediately go through it again frame by frame and search for Little Helper the "lightbulb" man. We get older... we don't change! :o)
Here's a nice tip for drilling round holes into thin sheets of aluminum. It also works for other metals. Drilling a hole with a (cordless) drill, or even with a column drill, the hole might end up looking more like a pentagon, rather than a perfect round one. A nasty effect many of us might recognize. The trick is to take a 1 inch square piece of felt or very thick cloth and put a few large drops of very thick oil onto it. Now, first drill into the metal, but ONLY make a small dent !! That dent will be/should be round. Lift the drill bit and lay down the oil soaked square of felt or cloth with its center over the dent. Now gently drill the hole, drilling right through the felt. If done well, the hole is much rounder, if not perfectly round !! The reason this works is: eliminating resonance. The drill bit starts to resonate, creating a five pointed hole. Get rid of the resonance and you're done !! Using a (much) shorter drill bit also helps a lot. Another nice side effect is that the oil helps to lubricate the drill bit and the felt or cloth removes burrs. For the most part, usually. A simple and cheap trick, but it really works ! However, for every hole you need another piece of felt. The one you just used got trashed in the process, ofcourse ! ;-)
Jimmy DiResta Thanks for another great set of tips! When I was a kid I made a kind of vertical lathe out of my dad's drill press. I nailed a nearly round piece of, I think ash, and put the nail in the chuck. I did not pin the bottom and forgot to lower the speed. Whoops! The thing spun so fast, it bent the nail and threw my little piece of wood like a big league fastball! So remember to pin the bottom and lower the RPMs was the lesson for me. Thanks again for the great ideas!
Those are the lessons that stick forever !! Thank you
jimmydiresta Thank you Jimmy for the education and inspiration!
jimmydiresta Thanks very much for that Jimmy. I cant get enough of these vids and the flat edge on the drill seems so obvious you should design and patton a model. I no id buy it. All the best.
Dude, I'm a welder fabricator who's trying to get into woodworking, n your vids r perfect for me ;-) passing on your experience is invaluable to someone like me, as u know both metal n wood work VERY differently, I have the metal knowledge, n I'm trying to gain the wood knowledge, so for u to do these vids is a God send man! I also luv that u work with all mediums to, very creative and no nonsense, respect Jim, proper bloke :-D
After 1,5 minute watching i've already seen a fantastic tip for drilling straight holes. Thanks for all your video's, Jim. They're great!!
Spike rocks. Long live Spike!!! Thanks for the great tips Jimmy.
Spike ROCKS!! I truly enjoy watching your videos. You always have GREAT tips!! Thanks!!
Bravo jimmy. I loved the oil press tip. Never seen it before and I'll be using it in my own shop when I drill steel stock. Thanks for making these.
I love all these "tips" videos! There is no substitute for experience in any field. Thanks Jimmy!
Это не первое видео с Вашим участием которое я просмотрел, очень Вам благодарен за те идеи которые вы предоставляете своим зрителям. Спасибо Вам!
Thanks for sharing your talent and expertise. So many gr8 tips and tricks. The timing couldn't be better for me as I'm about to get my 1st drill press : D
Thanks again, Rodney
Dude, these videos are absolutely incredible. You truly do belong on television. Don't stop being awesome.
I didn't know most of these tips. Way to think outside of the box guys. Thanks for great tips
jimmydiresta I think these tip videos are some of the most useful maker/craft/diy/etc videos on youtube!. keep them coming please!
Some tips I knew, others I knew and forgot and still more that were totally new to me. For all of them, thanks for the video.
more of such tips please - they are priceless! thanks
It's always nice to learn a few new things. Thank You for the useful tips!
Jimmy, receive a big hug and continue creating .Your friend of Brazil, Geraldo.
SpikeTV! More Spike, more of the time. Another excellent video Jimmy, thanks again.
I always learn a thing or ten from your TIPS videos. Thanks!
Thank You for your tips, they are excellent. If you continue with this series i would like to see your welding tips.
wicked tips Jimmy. Appreciate you sharing all your experience with us!
Love this series. Professions tips for the everyday guy. I always look forward to these. Thanks Jimmy and David.
Love the block glued to the drill! That is a must do!!
Thanks for all the tips, very useful for someone like me wanting to learn, keep them coming
This is excellent, love this series of tips and tricks, I'm an engineer and love hearing new tricks and trade tips, and yours are excellent so thanking for sharing your trade secrets!
Great tips again, so simple yet effective! Gonna be using that oil under the drill bed tip at work now, never would have thought of it!
Can't get enough of these videos!
I find each one of these videos tremendously educational. Thank you, Jimmy and Dave!
Great stuff Jimmy. They say you should try to learn someing new every day. Well there's one week taken care of. Spike sure is one smart cat too!
Only 30secs in and already added to 'liked' & 'Favorite' lists. Cause it's Diresta!
You and Spike are hilarious... Love it!
Good call on the flat sided drill.
Big fan of your work, thanks for sharing.
Once more you have done it. Made, a fun, enjoyable, informative video. Thank You for your time.
I never thought of the oil dip under the drill press.... GREAT idea!
I went one step further and adapted an old ring clamp from a bunsen burner stand to hold a small stainless steel cup full of oil, under the hole in my elderly drill press.... WORKS GREAT!
I also never though of looking in Pablo's cathouse for missing tools, since he likes to watch your videos with Spike in them.
We'll never know what he had planned for the power hacksaw I found in there but.... he's no longer allowed to watch your videos alone!
You blew my mind like 3 times in this video, good stuff man.
i use the drill doctor. it took a few tries, but it really does work. i was shocked.
The dowel! That's great for making stand-offs. Also, I actually made a carbide bladed tool that you can put in the drill, and run forward, that does what the file does, and with and with a bigger hole. But it turned into a science project in terms of blade angles, and machining. But I've till got one, and it's a great idea. I love your videos. It's inspiring me to stay creative.
Very nice of you to share you expertise, Jimmy. All respect to you. I subscribed and I'm gonna make sure I like every video I open. Cheers!
Love your old drill press.
Always looking for tips...you gave plenty for me to take on board..👍🏻🇦🇺😁
Awesome Jimmy! I especially like the dowel rod trick! I needed to drill through dowel once before to make standoffs to mount a model airplane engine. I had to locate a drill press, had I known this before it wouldn't have been a problem.
I used the same trick for drilling new holes in my granite counter top for my bathroom. The bit for drilling the holes does not come with a center drill, worked great!
By the way, I love the clips you put in with your cat :)
Thanks for sharing your experience and expertise!
These tips are awesome
These videos are pure gold thank you so much!
Thank you Jimmy for these practical inspiration.
Here's one, any drill bit is going to be harder than whatever you're drilling, so if you don't have a scribe handy a drill bit makes a good impromptu one. They're all at least high speed steel, or if you've got the big bucks they're carbide, so you'll never hurt the bit doing that unless you try it with a micro drill
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have been racking my brain on how to keep my kids from reading books. I can't trust them as far as I can throw them. Every time I turn my back my kids try to read books. It is enough to drive a parent crazy. Now I have one less problem to worry about. Thanks Diresta!
My greatest inspiration, what a legend!
Absolutely agree with the flat-topped drill comment. All the decent belt sanders have flat tops for using them in an alternative configuration - drills should get the same treatment.
謝謝您不藏私的傳授技巧、讓我受益良多、再次感謝您。
Hi Jimmy, a tip I learned as a young fella from an old fella - when machining aluminium, don't use oil....use parafin, you will be amazed. Love your vids
Tips worth listening to. Good stuff Jimmy.
Spike is a beast!! I have bruises on my ribs due to cutting into copper with hole saw bits. Next time I'll try my forearm/wrist. Keep the videos coming, thumbs up. If I was somebody, I would get Jimmy+David tated on my body.
Jimmy and David, very useful and extremely inspiring as usual, thank you!
Thanks for the great tips, Jimmy. But to be honest, Spike stole the show.
Really enjoy your tips and tricks videos. They always remind me of some of the old guys I've worked with in the past. A lot these things I've been doing for years and have learned from old timers Luess I always took them for granted and assume they were more common knowledge
Thank you yes I too encountered a few old timers in the 80s I hear them in my head all the time!
jimmydiresta With the clamp and file..if you put the clamp the way of the twist it would act as a stop for the work piece...allow the piece to turn onto the bar of the clamp and continue on..
Cory Tichenor
Common knowledge, like common sense, isn't all that common any more! :-(
***** So true, I say the same thing all the time. And as a corollary, beware of those who have to tell you they have common sense, as they often do not. Their "common" is not necessarily the same "common" as they think it is.
Love the tip with the block of wood attached to the drill.
Thanks Jimmy for another excellent video in your "Tips" series. Watching these videos provides insight into many of the techniques you use in your making videos. I recognize that those "Making" videos are fast-paced for entertainment purposes and for professional reasons (as you are sometimes working for a client) so I greatly appreciate the Tips series; It has reduced the number of times I have to rewind during the Making videos, asking myself "what exactly did he do there?"
Thanks again, and please keep them coming.
I love these old school tips.
Thanks for the tips, I will definitely be using some of these.
Now here's a tip from me.
If you need to drill through very hard steel and you don't have metal drill bits that can do so, you can use a stone drill and sharpen it like a metal drill bit.
Just don't sharpen or overheat it too much or the diamond plate will fall out of the tip.
Tips are allways welcome and you are willing to share. Nice this time i knew them all. But fun to watch.
The tip about how to enlarge a forstner hole just saved my bacon. Thanks much
+jimmydiresta
When we need to pilot a small hole, we will clip the bottom piece off a wire coat hanger and use it as a pilot bit. Works especially well with carpet.
These are awesome tips!
For drill bits, about 2-3 times a year Menards has their crazy large pack of like 200 drill bits for $10 after rebate. Believe it or not, they're decent bits. They also give you many, many, many small (easily broken) bits and only a few of the larger.
I love the breaks with the cat, especially when it took your drill! :)
Some great tips! I don't have a drill press, so I'm going to make one of those sliding guides you had at the start of the video this weekend. Thank you Jimmy!
Spike is such a beautiful and cool cat!
Thanks for the tips.
Theses things make my day. Thanks for awesome videos Jimmy, Dave and of course Spike!
Love this series.
Probably the best tip video to date.
Great tips Jimmy, thanks.
Take care
Mike
Well, i haven't read all 456 comments, but I suggest that you mill a slot for depth stop on the vertical drill guide (first tip shown). Maybe a couple of holes for dowels in the base too, for centering the guide on a piece of stock.
Great download thanks for all the tips. Spike still the star.
I haven't watched a video yet, that I didn't learn two or three good ideas.....thanks Jimmy !
Great tips! Please keep them coming because I learn something new every time. At the end of the video, you see spike looking back at his castle. He worked hard stealing it and getting it in there without your knowledge. (Dave ratted on him) Poor
Spike, he's wondering why you took his drill away.
a sharpened tube drills holes in nomex honeycomb too. I tried this today after seeing this video a while back. after looking like the hero I felt obligated to come find the video and comment.
Love this kind of videos. Thanks!!!
That quick drill press idea was good. I'll have to use that one. :)
You are gold. Great vid thankyou. Quite a few of these tips where new to me.
All round excellence, well done. I have subscribed. 🇬🇧
Hey Spike - Your some Cool Cat. Thanks for all the great tips and videos. Tell Jimmy thanks too!
0:09 RIP Spike 0:51 drills still look like sneakers 3:10 still remember this one 4:39 I always like the makeshift hole punch 6:34 done this with the ice pick just gotta be easy not to break the glue bond 7:49 I do this all the time I’ve seen people put use 2 hole saws as one. I’m sure you’ve seen it to. 9:33 I’ve used router bits as well on aluminum. 13:31 I must’ve learned this from you. Been doing it on high risk holes. 14:18 I’ve used the drill doctor good product 16:37 good classic tips
I literally slapped my face because of that flat-top hack. Damn brilliant!
You know what, SPIKE is very well Tips adviser, thank you guys
I love the Spike transitions. Makes me laugh every time.
Thank you for those bits of information!
Spike is a clepto. LOL! Your tip vids are going in my all time favorites. Great stuff.