I got my jewelers drill bits in today. I already lost one.

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I got my jewelers drill bits in today. I already lost one. I need a special work area for this stuff with a light, a microscope and a box to work in. I also need to get another caliper so I know what size bit I am holding.

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Yeah, jewelers’ benches typically have a half-round cutout with a catch cloth beneath it so anything you drop ends up there. One: no more hunting around in the dust for diamonds, and two: catches all the gold dust for later collection. But it also functions nicely for catching 0.2mm drillbits.

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I once fabricated a hotend nozzle with a 0.15mm hole. It was lovely for fine detailed work, but it also jammed constantly: any fragment of anything in the feed material would clog it.

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@John_Bump I rarely bother with less than a 0.5mm nozzle and still get tons of jams. :confused:

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Yep. We were using cheap filament, which was definitely part of the problem. But, man, jam city. It was an interesting project, though.