Talk to your kids about the dangers of carpentry
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Brother, that's a driver bit... I hope you don't try to drill with those bits.
the state it's in it might drill better than it drives
I mean... We know there are a LOT of powerful people who certainly like drilling kids.
She should be terrified! That is a DeWalt #2 Phillips bit. All contractors know that DeWalt bits are terrible. The tools are great, but this means that her daycares contractor is incompetent for not using superior Diablo bits.
Robertson or gtfo
Nah man, torx for life
Wait, really? Their skill saws and drills are great, but a tiny piece of metal is where they skip corners?
Ya, unbelievable, isn't it? DeWalt bits are soft and wear out/strip way too fast. DeWalt is in the same group as Black and Decker and I think that division makes the bits and just slaps the DeWalt name on them. Milwaukee and Makita bits last far longer and usually have better features. I recently got a pack of Diablo bits to try out, their blades and concrete drill bits are top notch, and so far the bits seem to be also.
Ryobi bits are the worst. Some will immediately break. The bits with open ends to fit other bits aren't even to size and the bits you put in them aren't snug and will fall out. First time any bit goes off the track it immediately strips. Some just break on light usage. The steel just breaks in half.
I presume instead of coal coke for carbon, they substituted shit, which while it does have some carbon produces an inferior product.
It’s not the brand that’s the problem, Torx or go home!
Maybe they did and that's why they don't notice a missing philips bit
Good thing she didn't find a 7/16 or a 10 mm socket.
10mm sockets have too high of a vapor pressure. They'd have evaporated long before she could find one.
I always thought they were inter dimensional, and that finding one changes the timeline.
Any socket left by a DeWalt-bit-using contractor, would likely be Pittsburgh branded, and best left to go back to the dust from whence it came.
Quite so. Though I'd say Dewalt tools with Milwaukee bits and Diablo blades. Those shockwave bits can take a beating.
I agree, I also use Milwaukee bits, but got a new pack of Diablo one a few months back. They seem to have the hardness of the Milwaukee bits, but don't get stuck as much in the mag bit holders when pounded in with a DeWalt Atomic impact.
Genuinely not sure what she thought it was.
Bullet I assume
A bullet.
I came into the thread with the same question
Turns out it was something too american for my European mind to comprehend.
Genuinely my best guess was they thought it was a heroin needle
Same and I'm from a gun crazy state.
I think that she thought it was a bullet. I can't imagine being that fucking stupid.
I thought it was a bug, (I'm on phone).
A metallic crystal that famously used in harmful rituals ofc /s
This reminds me of my stepmother who, a couple years ago, had my younger half brother go to public highschool for the first time. She assumed that, in their rather well off suburb, public schools were like a fight to survive. She literally "joked" about wanting to send him to school with a knife to protect himself.
Some people will just believe in propaganda whether it's believing public schools are a dangerous place in a well off suburb or that bullets just chill on the ground outside of a school in the inner city. It's all BS and they'll look for anything to confirm their beliefs, including mistaking an obvious drill bit for a bullet.
i mean we have a city nearby where everyone warns everyone else "don't go to [city], you'll get shot". white people warn white people because they're terrified of gang violence that hasn't existed since the 1990s. everyone else warns each other because the local PD will shoot you if you're not white (they shoot and kill at least 10 unarmed citizens a year, not sure how many unarmed people they only shoot) and they don't respond to your emergency calls unless you're related to someone in the PD.
i guess my point is that even subcultures have their own propaganda.
Looks like it's from a crappy screw gun. Bits that small always seem to be terrible.
That’s a standard size bit - for use in a bit holder. You don’t put that bit directly into your impact gun.
Milwaukee sell them in tic-tac boxes of 25. I only go through a maximum of maybe two bits a day working with timber.
Jeez that's a lot. Why 2 a day? I know I don't do nearly as much drilling as you, but even with cement the bits usually hold up longer for me than the drill. But I still run a craftsman with a c4 battery and DeWalt bits so I'm sure my tech is ancient compared to your day to day.
My batteries don't have much left in them, it takes 2 to get a 7/16" through a cement wall to mount a tv bracket or such, but as a normal every day person I'd say the C4 batteries did me well. I bought them in 2009 I think
Edit for clarification, they are C3 apparently
Old "shitty" drill, not a torque wrench, but the fr has lasted
No pre-drilling. 5” screw. c.200 Nm of torque. 25mm PZ3 (Metabo) bit. Magnetic Milwaukee bit holder.
The bits break first, by design. The bit holder hardly ever breaks. Never broken the gun.
It’s horses for courses at the end of the day. “If it works, it works” is the mantra I was brought up around.
Yeah I never thought that drill would last as it has for me, I need to get an impact drill eventually probably, but I figure I'll do it when I hit a job I can't stand this old thing for. I got that as a young lad, so now I feel like I just drag it out like it's bad knees and ankles setting into the mid-late 30s like me
That yellow band means it's either a DeWalt locking bit, or a cheap knockoff of the DeWalt bits
Oh cool, none of mine have that. Wonder when they started doing that
It's because that's an impact rated bit. They have a thinner section that flexes a little bit to prevent the bits from shattering when used in an impact driver. All the different brands like to put a little ring with their colors on the torsion zone.
They make both kinds, the yellow band ones are just the fancy “premium ones”