Air Drills

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 00:18:18 -0000, "Model Flyer"
wrote:


"acepilot" wrote in message
...
I have a 60 gallon upright air compressor and it seems to run the
air
drill fine. I've never seen an electric drill that turned RPMs in
the
thousands.

I have an electric drill that runs at 3000, great for drilling 1/8
but not that good for under that size. It's home made, used the motor

Why would you want to run a drill bit that fast?

I normally use less than half that speed even for the tiny ones.
Although I have a number of air tools, I learned to hate that sound
after working on an assembly line in my younger days.


Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
out of a B&D lawnmower, it used the same caseing as one of the small
B&D's but with a higher gear ratio.

In Roger Halstead wrote:
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 00:18:18 -0000, "Model Flyer"
wrote:

I have an electric drill that runs at 3000, great for drilling 1/8
but not that good for under that size. It's home made, used the motor

Why would you want to run a drill bit that fast?

I normally use less than half that speed even for the tiny ones.
Although I have a number of air tools, I learned to hate that sound
after working on an assembly line in my younger days.

Because they work better at the higher speeds.

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