FWIW -- while the old HUOT drill indexes were gray hammertone,
and the newer ones are something like a fine-grained gray wrinkle
finish, the #61-#80 index from HUOT is blued steel -- or at least mine
is.

Hey DoN,

OK. Thanks.

I have three new Huot's for inch/number/letter purchased (empty) just
last year, but they don't have that "hook" piece. I have a Cleveland
and a few "Chinese clones of the Huot's" of the same type, and they
don't have it either. Funny thing is, I have about a dozen Huot boxes
altogether, and not one of them has what I would consider a "part
number" on them, so I have no reference to note.

In any case, I only have a few of the # 61-80's indexes, but none are
Huot that I could see, and I don't use anything in them often enough
to care about keeping them "convenient". In the smaller sizes, I keep
package size lots of just what I do use, including a goodly number of
the numbers and smaller inch, but none of the smaller letter drill
bits. I'm not good enough and don't care to learn how to sharpen the
itty-bitty stuff, and they are not expensive in package lots, so when
they quit cutting, they quit being drill-bits and become "pins".

Take care.

Brian