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13 May, 2017
Pleasantly surprised by these excellent performers
1 of 1 found this helpful These are efficient and smooth-cutting - as a long-time user of spade/flat drillbits, I have been pleasantly surprised by the performance of these DeWalt extreme spade bits and will continue to use & buy them in future.
Please note that to get the best from these, you really need to use a drill with plenty of torque.
For example, a DeWalt DCD795 will drill with one of these spade bits (20mm) on high speed (23nm soft rating), will perform adequately in softwood, but struggles to perform properly with a larger diameter bit, unless switching the gearbox down to slow speed (60nm hard rating). Therefore, if you need to drill holes in excess of 20mm, at high speed, and/or in hardwood, you will need to seriously consider using a flagship combi (such as DeWalt's DCD995/6, or Makita, Hitachi, etc. equivalent flagship), or a mains-powered drill. Impact drivers are also a viable option, as these DeWalt spade bits have a 1/4" hex-shank. The only downside with using an impact driver for spade bits is that their 1/4" hex chucks do not hold the bit as tight & straight, during drilling, so there is more potential for the bit to stray during the cut.
Bosch's Speed-Cut spade bits are also good performers, but if you are trying to choose between those and these DeWalts, then I can tell you that the Bosch spade bits are excellent for drilling deep holes in end-grain timber, but can cause break-out when used to drill materials with delicate surfaces (veneered or melamine-faced chipboard, or plain MDF, or side-grain timber, to name a few examples). This is because the Bosch spade bits have an aggressive screwthread on their points, which draws the bit rapidly into the cut - great for making light work of challenging end-grain boring, but bad news when trying to avoid break-out in less robust materials or scenarios. It also demands even more torque, since it is trying to force a more rapid feed-rate, and thus cut&eject more material per second.
The DeWalts feed more smoothly, and with the feed-rate being determined largely by the operator rather than by an aggressive screw thread (the DeWalt spade bits have no tip-thread at all)
I own sets of both the Bosch spade bits and the DeWalt ones, and I like both, but I use the DeWalts for most tasks, only bringing out the Bosch bits when I need to drill into end-grain timber (which they excell at).
In summary, if you can afford only one set of spade bits, then the best all-round choice between DeWalt and Bosch would therefore be DeWalt.
Also note that there is room in the supplied case to add 4 more bit sizes, if you decide to purchase them individually (e.g. 10mm DT4762, 14mm DT4765, 35mm DT4776, 40mm DT4778).
Finally, anyone reading this who may also be seeking decent masonry drill bits, do try DeWalt's Extreme 2 masonry bits (be it the tri-shank for standard chucks, or the SDS plus shank, the cutting section remains identical). I'm not a DeWalt fanboy - I choose each tool and each accessory based upon it's quality and performance - this means that I have a wide variety of manufacturers in my tool kit. It just so happens, though, that the DeWalt 'Extreme' range includes some excellent spade bits and excellent masonry bits. The Extreme 2 masonry bits are stonking-good bits (I own tri-shank versions, and also 'full-head', AKA 4-cutter, SDS versions, and they all perform superbly, which is why I thoroughly recommend them to colleagues).
13 May, 2017
'Okay', but definitely not equivalent of Bosch/Makita/DeWalt T234X
These Saxton blades are similar to Bosch T234X (and Makita/DeWalt clones), but I now know that the Saxtons are not the same quality for less money.
They are less quality for less money.
I should've known better, but I was tempted by the large price difference.
The tooth profile is broadly-similar to genuine T234X, but the steel is very slightly thinner when viewed edgeways-on, and considerably slimmer when viewed from the side, so the net result is that you're getting a less-robust blade, and this is very important because many people who regularly use genuine T234X do so specifically because it doesn't wander when cutting thick kitchen worktops. I am sorry to say that these Saxton copies do wander noticeably more when cutting - not horrendously, but noticeably more than genuine T234X.
Also of note is that these Saxton blades are SPRAY-PAINTED silver! That is a disconcerting quality flag for me - the steel underneath is quite black, once the blade has been used for a few minutes, so it might, perhaps, indicate a lower grade of steel being used by the (probably Chinese) manufacturer. It's certainly peculiar, at the very least.
In summary, these blades cut admirably fast and are not bad value, for 50p a piece, if all one wants to do is crudely cut through 18mm MDF or 2x4 timber, but for anyone who has grown accustomed to the impressive quality of cut (and trueness/lack of wander of cut) which genuine T234X blades provide, and who really needs accuracy, then these may fall short, as they have done for me. It's back to the genuine ones for me; you'll have to draw your own conclusions on these Saxtons.
13 May, 2017
This product improved after early batches
This supplier was grinding the chamomile flowers too coarsely, to begin with, and perhaps with too high a proportion of flower stalk/stem included, but my second batch (after I'd mentioned this) was much more finely-ground, and had a sweeter taste and better efficacy.
I have found that, if one consumes a heaped teaspoonful of this, at bedtime, (not boiled in water, just swallowed as it comes out of the packet), it has a beneficial effect upon the liver, seemingly relaxing the bile ducts during sleep, and thus aiding detoxification.