DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2010-09-28, Brian Lawson wrote:

"hooking"? Wuzzat?????? Maybe like when the bits slide out of situ
while the case is closed, and they get caught or "hooked"?

Yep! You grab the edge of the topmost letter tray in the
115-bit set and start to lift it, and it comes up about a quarter inch
or less and then pulls out of your grip ...

I didn't have a Huot, but my index did that & was very irritating. So I
just left it open. But it was on a shelf and the sizes were hard to see
beyond the 1st row.

What I did was take the bit holders out, mount them side-by-side, just
above my drill press:
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/DrillIndex.jpg

They are very conveniently located, I can see the sizes, and I can
extract & replace bits easily. None of which was true before.

I never could see the usefulness of boxed indexes - YMMV,
Bob