Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools

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Bormax3 - the first Carbide tipped Forstner bit The BORMAX3 made by Famag (Series 1663) is the first carbide tipped Forstner bit. You can use it freehand or in the drilling machine and in the drill press. This bit cuts cleanly into softwood, all hardwood, and all kinds of plywood and chipboards. Even extreme hard tropical woods like Bongossi are no problem for this bit.

Application: Carpenters, handymen, and do-it-yourself enthusiasts are increasingly having to work with hardwoods, particularly exotic ones as used in garden furniture or terraces and also for interior installations. Coated materials with wear-hard surfaces such as Corian and plastic-coated laminates are also becoming more common in kitchen cabinet doors, bath furniture, washstands and kitchen countertops. Very often, one needs to be able to bore holes in these kinds of materials with battery powered and other types of hand drills. The common problem: Traditional Forstner bits are manufactured from tool steels. With this type of bit it is very easy to cut an accurate and clean hole with hand-held drills, but because of the relatively soft steels normally used in these tools, they are not well-suited for use on hardwood and other hard materials. While drilling these kind of materials, the bit quickly dulls, and then a lot of heat is produced. Plastic surfaces can be disfigured by the heat or actually burned, and the heat also softens and dulls the bit even more. The tungsten carbide tipped drill bits often used in drill presses have very good wear characteristics, but drill presses are often difficult or impossible to use on the worksite or in the middle of a countertop, for example. And put in a hand drill, it becomes almost impossible to guide them while drilling and it is easy to have one walk out of the cut, tear up the surface and ruin very large pieces of expensive materials. The solution: Bormax3 A tungsten carbide tipped drill bit, Bormax3 is an entirely new product by FAMAG! It is an improvement on the traditional Bormax. The normal Bormax is manufactured from tool steel, but is designed to cut in a way that minimizes heat build up while drilling even in hardwoods and chipboards. Now these Bormax bits have been developed with cutting teeth in tungsten carbide, similar to many circular saw blades, for instance. The result is Bormax3: The Jack of all trades for Jacks of all trades! These bits are really the best available for almost any kind of material. The perfect combination of long-wearing, durable, tungsten carbide cutting teeth, with the excellent hand control that the traditional Forstner bits provide. With this Bormax3 one can for the first time drill freehand into all wood and plastic materials: soft wood, hardwood both European and exotic (also Bongossi!), MDF, coated and uncoated chip boards, and many kinds of plastics! These characteristics represent the new yardstick by which to measure all drill bits designed for wood. In other words, the first really universal wood drill.