Customer Reviews

Steelex D1137 HSS Drill Bit Set in Steel Index, 115-Piece

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The sizes on the shank are often very faint or missing so you'll need a mic to tell them apart. The number drills are only approximate in size. For instance, the #16 should be 0.177" but was 0.171". Many of the smaller drills are actually the same size rather than getting progresively smaller. #45-47 were all 0.0081", #39-42 were all 0.0096", #35-37 were all 0.104". If you need the precision offered by a 115 drill bit set, this isn't the set you should get.

It's hard to go wrong with drills, but these guys managed to do it.

Smaller drill sizes (in the top row) were mostly broken by the time I first opened the box.

Many of the drills had come out of their places during shipping, so I started putting them back in the correct holes for their size. It was then that I noticed that some of the drill sizes were duplicated. For example, the 3/8 size and the next size down from that each had a 3/8 drill - instead of there being two different sizes. It's like the packager just had a bucket of drills and was just putting them in whichever hole was close to the drill size.

There were 115 drills as advertised - but what I wanted were 115 different sizes, whereas I got about 98 different sizes.