On 2010-09-28, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
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 ...
Actually -- that should be the topmost fractional tray. My
memory had it backwards.
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.
However -- that appears to be only the factional sizes -- 1/16"
to 1/2". What we've been talking about is the combined index which
holds the fractional, the letter sized and the number sized bits in a
single index.
I never could see the usefulness of boxed indexes
I use them in the drill press, and in two different lathes --
far enough apart so the portability of the index box makes things a lot
more useful. Yes, I have a stand index for a second set of fractional
size bits near the bigger lathe, and another stand index near the
smaller one. The index (along with a pair of Metric indexes, and a
number-sized cobalt screw-machine length set with split points. These
are on the end of a shelf set behind the drill press.
Oh yes -- there is also an index which spends most of the time on
the floor -- 3/4" to 1" with MT-3 shanks. It is just a bit too heavy to
put over my head on a shelf. :-)
I like the countersinks on the left of the assembly. What is
that on the right -- center drills? Chuck key? (The image does not go
low enough to show whether it is a keyless chuck. :-)
Enjoy,
DoN.
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