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18 July 2019 at 12:30 pm #591116
I just bought my first vintage Millers Falls hand brace! Can someone please point me in the right direction to purchase countersinks. For augers I have tapered square shank Irwins with the threaded screw tip.
THANKS!
-eric18 July 2019 at 6:41 pm #591211http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?p=54874&cat=1,180,42337&ap=1
The link above is one option and also if you search eBay for ‘bit brace countersink’ you will find some. Have a great day.
18 July 2019 at 9:19 pm #591265Thank you very much for your response, Derek. That $20 lee valley tool looks perfect!
18 July 2019 at 9:35 pm #591270Glad I could help! Have a great day and good luck on all your future projects.
I bought two sizes of Countersink Bit for my Hand Braces. Like the ones Paul used. Metal cones with a hole in the tip and a cutting edge around that hole.
The shafts were smooth and needed flats filing on them to gain any torque at all.
The cutters arrived blunt. No way to easily sharpen them.Derek’s recommendation is the tool I now use. Paul seems to have switched to this type too. You get a more precise countersink, at slower speed, and one that suits the screw-head perfectly. With a brace, the wood gets chewed-up all too quickly. These Hand-Countersinks can be re-sharpened too.
I own the LV hand-held deburring tool and do not find it particularly effective for countersinking. It doesn’t produce a uniform result like the conical deburring tool does when placed in a driver / motor.
The conical deburring tools remain the best that I’ve found even though they do dull. I’ve only every bought the cheap one from Harbor Freight and it has lasted long enough to be worth its price.
I tried sharpening the deburring tool once by working it into some soft material, like pine, to produce a conical depression and then smearing green polish into the depression. Next, the deburring tool was spun in reverse to polish it. It sort of worked, but not really. I’d like to try again with a coarser compound.
4 August 2019 at 4:10 pm #596013Can you please post some links for these various tools? I bkught the hand held one from LV and it works ok, but for a bunch of screws it is a lot of extra time and effort!THX.
4 August 2019 at 5:33 pm #596046Have been using a pair of Festool deburring countersinks for the last four year, and am nothing but happy with them.
They cost a bit, though clearly less than even a young Burgundy in Boston, and have never given me a headache.
https://www.festool.co.uk/search-results?keyword=countersink&category=all
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You must be logged in to view attached files.The ones at the following link look like the Harbor Freight ones that I have…HF often has the same tool under multiple names, but this should give the idea.
https://www.harborfreight.com/countersink-and-deburring-tool-set-3-pc-61629.html
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5 August 2019 at 2:16 am #596207And at a significantly more pleasant price! Tempted to order a set, just to compare.
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