Throwing out drill bits is easy. Reusing them takes more thought. This article breaks down realistic ways to reuse them ...

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A drill bit is what actually cuts into the rock when drilling an oil or gas well. Located at the tip of the drillstring, below the drill collar and the drill pipe, the drill bit is a rotating ...

It’s often said that you don’t need a drill bit; what you need is a hole. How you make that hole is up to you, but it’s a given that you want to make it as efficiently as possible. The drill bit, ...

A hole is nothing. Or more precisely, it’s the absence of something—wood, metal, concrete, or any number of different materials. Since holes are nothing, why do we care about them and how to make them ...

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Howard Hughes Sr. revolutionized the drill bit more than 100 years ago to accelerate the oil boom that made Houston and Texas the nation's energy capital. Today, his legacy company is aiming to make ...

Breaking a stud or a bolt is a pretty common shop catastrophe, but one for which a fair number of solutions exist. Drill it out, shoot in an extractor, or if you’re lucky, clamp on some Vise-Grips and ...