Sure, the HSS Twist Drills work good, but there is always a better way. I was told once by a tooling rep that you couldn't use spade drills in a manual lathe. Boy, was he wrong! These things are awesome in a manual lathe! Sure, they throw coolant everywhere. But, they also plow through the material like its nothing. In this short episode, I use an AMEX Spade Drill to make DOM tubing for one of my repeat jobs. Since this size isn't available, this is the best logical approach. Drilling 12+" deep in less than 4 minutes! I'd call that Super Fast and Awesome! Topper Machine LLC is an entirely manual machine shop located in Spooner, WI. Our videos will highlight some of our shop work as well as the sawmill we built in the shop and our A.D. Baker steam engine, and others we work on. Thank you for watching! Please Like, Subscribe, & Share. https://toppermachine.com/ For Official Topper Machine LLC merchandise, check out our StoreFrontier: https://www.storefrontier.com/toppermachinellc Support our channel https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=NCH6C5MSTJJHJ #machineshop #machinistlife #manualmachinist