Drilling For Common Sense

Let's face it; tools are pretty boring. I grew up in a house with a father who was adept at using all manner of frightening implements that he used to build miraculous things, like our house. But the weekly trips to lumber yards or home centres had me looking around for ways to kill myself. However, tools become a good deal less boring when one has need of them, so a few weeks ago, I bought my first power tool, a Proxxon Precision Drill/Grinder FBS 240/E.

What that means, I'm not totally sure. I can't give you specs, because I don't know them. All that I care about it that it drills very small holes, which it what I need it to do. It might have the capability of doing my taxes too, but hole drilling is all I'm really interested in.

I invested in the drill first, sensibly deciding to wait until next pay period to order the stand that it fits in. But, having a new toy in a box without playing with it became too great a temptation this morning and I set about testing the thing out.

I thought, "Who needs a bloody drill stand anyhow?"

Well, apparently /I/ do. After the fine drill bit that I knew in my heart was a bad choice for free hand drilling broke off and pinged across the garage into the unknown, taking the piece of silver I'd be drilling with it, I trudged upstairs, went back to the Proxxon site and sheepishly ordered the drill stand and a replacement bit.

It seems that my Proxxon Precision Drill/Grinder FBS 240/E is not the only tool in the house.