£10.83 from drill serviceYou can still have problems with metric. If my memory serves me right the Roman Harvest pen uses a 13.1mm drill !!!!
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Metric pen kits
- Thread starter Dalboy
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You can still have problems with metric. If my memory serves me right the Roman Harvest pen uses a 13.1mm drill !!!!
I definitely had a problem with that one, I dropped my bit and it broke, I ordered 5 from Cane Adam just under £10 for the 5 inc. postage that was on the 7th. I phoned them today and they had emailed me saying they are no longer made, no email arrived not has any refund, they were waiting for me to contact them. Ordered one today from Amazon so will see if that turns up.
Peter
Not including delivery it under jobber drills
Walter
Fellow
I looked at uk drills and couldn't see any 13.1 on ebay there are some 33/64 but most of the are MT
Peter
Penpal
Grand Master
Consider it a minor problem considering just how many drills we do buy difficult sizes I buy in pairs keeping a back up also a minor cost alongside CA, Blanks, Kits, Lathes, Grinders gear of all sorts when amortised glad there are answers for this. The UK from memory took a whole lot longer to convert from memory than out here. I imagine Europeans must have thought us quaint with our Imperial system in America I believe they are further away from real change with their mixed up system. Still devotees in Steam in all countries. Each to his own I say. Not everyone gives a fig about penmakers supplies.
Peter.
Peter.
There you go Peter one of many they have a drop down list of sizes 5 JORAN 13.1MM HSS METAL PROFESSIONAL QUALITY TWIST DRILL BITS | eBay
Thanks Woody, I have searched loads of times for 13.1mm qne 33/64 and that one certainly didn't come up.
Peter
Penpal
Grand Master
I have noticed that it is getting harder to find drill bits for pen kits. Why do our suppliers not ask the manufactures if they can make the kits so as the tubes are metric which seem to be the easiest bits to get or are the suppliers on a good screw selling the imperial bits.
I am now going to get my coat and leave the building for a while
I believe we are on the end of consideration for pen kit sizes they the makers seem to sub out brasses etc to specialist people ending up packaging and selling least ways Timberbits on his travels to them has described them this way cottage industry nearly.
In the electrical business my experience was nothing from one mob ever fitted the others products so call bastard threads were the norm. Remember Land Rovers full of exhaustive numbers of nuts and bolts costing big money to have work done on them for many years the petrol tank was under the drivers seat, GMH with their early Holdens full of fat self tapping screws. In Civil Aviation I spent years out on freezing runways planes circling repairing landing lights freznel furnished almost impossible to pull down and fix, The primitive strouger relays controlling taxiway etc lighting that had piggy backed contacts that had to be stroked with a special tool to set them up. Mixed American manufacture of stray voltage converters ganged up in crazy fashion in critical installations.
Bottom line is they price down, bulk handle ,where price rather than quality reigns. Beware of the sleeping giant. I am not deceived enough to think that makers are ready yet to standardise with common threads or standard brasses.
Coming back to drills they are notorious for their minor variations from their stated sizes anyway.
WE are in the swings of the roundabouts with Imperial and Metric with so many in between.
I like Engineering sales where real choice still can be found and quality is the norm.
Have success mate we all try our best.
Peter.
donwatson
Fellow
Could I say a quick :thanxs: THANK YOU :thanxs: to Woody for his recommendation re. UK Drills.
After a trawl through the Cromwell Tools catalogue I found the 25/64" and 15/32" drills I needed, I went down to the dealer and asked for them, he searched for a while then said they had none.
He then checked the national stock list and said there was none and there were no plans to order any
I came home and checked this post cos I remember Woody said summat about buying drills and I have just ordered as per the easy peasy instructions on the website of UK Drills.
Again Woody
After a trawl through the Cromwell Tools catalogue I found the 25/64" and 15/32" drills I needed, I went down to the dealer and asked for them, he searched for a while then said they had none.
He then checked the national stock list and said there was none and there were no plans to order any
I came home and checked this post cos I remember Woody said summat about buying drills and I have just ordered as per the easy peasy instructions on the website of UK Drills.
Again Woody
Before you put the link up for the 13.1mm drill bits on ebay I had ordered one from Amazon, just had an email from them saying the supplier didn't have one in stock so haven't been charged. Just ordered one from Ebay didn't look at the seller it's from Hongkong.
Peter