Drill bits - any recommendations?

I use a LOT of drill bits and for none critical general purpose usage on mild and stainless steel, wood and plastic I buy the cobalt drill bit sets fro the Rennie Tool Company. They are a bit brittle so don't go ovalising (I think I made up a new word there <shrug>) holes or using them as a milling cutter, (not that anyone would dream of inflicting such abuse on a drill bit of course...), but as a general purpose normal (jobber) length bit they have served me well. For critical stuff and taper shank drills I tend to buy Dormer.

For example: https://www.rennietool.co.uk/collec...balt-jobber-drill-sets?variant=32477458530391
 
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Chris I bet you can remember the hand Stanley drill - I couldn't count how many hours I have stood there winding that handle round and round - Electric drills were a blessing.
I do regret not having my brothers very old pillar drill when he moved house - Left it and a huge lathe behind in shed.

I have two blue drill boxes like those but they have Lidl on them :rolleyes:
 
I am sad to say I remember them well, the "posh" ones had a gear on the top and bottom of the chuck shaft to even the load on the handle gear hub shaft. And yes, the electric drill, Black and Decker or the more up market Wolf ones come to mind :)

What I am after is a proper commercial quality drill grinding machine to do up 1.5 inch drills. They all seem to be in the USA and I am past standing for days in machinery auctions, although I did get my Harrison 11 inch swing lathe, a Bridgeport universal mill and a hydraulic surface grinder from such auctions. Bridgeport and lathe have paid for themselves a hundred times over, as has a big blasting cabinet with dust extraction.

Surface grinder means I just buy the thickest tappet shims and grind them to whatever, rather than having boxes of every size at vast expense.
 
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