Model Forum / General / Models / August 2005

Hi,

I keep seeing sets of these (reduced shank drills) at very reasonable
prices cf taper drills and I wondered if anyone here has any experience
of them in a model engineering context ?  One possible drawback that
occurred to me is with a shank of around 12mm an eg 20mm drill is going
to exert quite a large torque and might move in the chuck, is this a
real problem ?  I'm also interested to know what use they are actually
intended for (yes I can already guess blacksmithing :-)

Thanks,

David