Price of MDF

loudwagon15s · Post by **loudwagon15s** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:40 am

tapping drill bit? i've prolly seen one before, but i've never heard of it.....?

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:45 am

im probably giving u the incorrect name for it, but what id does is it drils a small diameter hole into the wood to the depth of your screw and the top of it taps the top so that the screw head sits in the wood, and not on top of it.

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:46 am

Sorry its called a Countersink, thats what i meant.... here is what it looks like
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN ... 66&pos=n24

loudwagon15s · Post by **loudwagon15s** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:25 pm

ahhhh, now i know what you are talking about, my toolbox is full of those and other assorted countersinking bits, (the one good thing coming from my dad's factory job)

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:02 pm

yea thats a countersinking bit a tap is what puts threads on the material.

cargodz · Post by **cargodz** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:35 pm

Yeah Price sucks during the winter... price of glue goes up.
Have Depot cut it to size for ya too... big time saver... you just have to cut the hole. :)

CaptainPioneer · Post by **CaptainPioneer** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:39 pm

Ya see Bill i just couldnt think of the right word lol

geolemon · Post by **geolemon** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:20 pm

I've seen it as high as almost $30 during times when wood was in high demand (post hurricane, etc).

It's one of the cheapest wood products out there. I don't even think OSB is much less, and that's some real crap there!

geolemon · Post by **geolemon** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:28 pm

CaptainPioneer wrote:Sorry its called a Countersink, thats what i meant.... here is what it looks like
http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN ... 66&pos=n24

I'd suggest a setup like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MQ-QUICK-CHANGE-TOO ... dZViewItem

Granted, that's some three-piece generic set - but I have a Dewalt one of these, and it's the box builder's best friend. It has a quick-release chuck, so you can drill a hole and countersink in one stroke, then quick-release, flip it around to the screwdriver bit, drive your screw, and then back again. It's really a huge timesaver.

And, generic or not, it looks identical to mine (probably made at the same factory), and it's as cheap as the single countersink bits that they sell at Home Depot.

Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:40 pm

geolemon wrote:I've seen it as high as almost $30 during times when wood was in high demand (post hurricane, etc).

It's one of the cheapest wood products out there. I don't even think OSB is much less, and that's some real crap there!

OSB is another all over the place in regards to price.

It's been as high as $25 (or more) a sheet all the way down to $18. My dad is always telling me how much it is everytime he goes to home depot or Lowes. He waits for it to get down to the teens and buys a bunch. Just to have.. Never know when you might want to build a shed or something, he always says.