I purchased a Drill Doctor drill bit sharpener several years ago. It has to be at least 6 or 7 years. They had just come out on the market not too long before I bought it. The model that I bought was the one that would sharpen drill bits up to 3/4". It would make both standard and split point drills and sharpen masonary bits. I think it is a model 750.
I thought the unit was ok, but after a while I had some problems with it. There are two chucks for holding the drill bits. One is for bits up to 1/2" and the other one is for bits on up to 3/4". The 1/2" chuck fell apart and it was a bear to get back together! It has a bunch of fingers and little spring clips that hold the fingers to the chuck. It took me over an hour to get the parts all back together at the same time. Another issue was that the chuck would not always rotate easily in the guide hole. I tried numerous things to solve this issue, with little in the way of positive results. I called Drill Doctor's home company to see if I could purchase a new 1/2" chuck and to inquire about the fitment problem. I must have owned the machine for about 4 or 5 years by this time. The lady was extremely nice and asked me a couple of questions about the machine itself. I remember that one thing she asked me was if the unit had a slide switch or a rocker switch on it. I told her that it had a slide switch. She told me that there were some issues with that model and they would send me a complete , new unit. I gave her all my address information and I recieved a new unit in less than a week. All that I had to do was pay a bit of shipping to send the old unit back to them. Needless to say, I was shocked and thrilled!!! The unit was way past its warranty and I didn't expect them to do anything even close to replacing the unit. The new unit will do all the same things that the old one was supposed to do, and it does it a lot better. They have improved the way the chucks are designed and the chucks fit and work properly in the ports on the eunit. I am not convinced that it always sharpens bits as good as they were when new, but it does a pretty good job. Another good thing is that it is totally accessible to a blind guy. These are a must for anyone who uses bits a lot. I can't say enough good things about the company for standing behind their product. Take care-- Mickey ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/437 - Release Date: 9/4/2006 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
