I use a small 1/4" head one from Tracey a lot of the time, part of a set of three. Very easy to twiddle it round rather than twisting a fixed one in your hand.

Also got an ARC set with a couple of them but tend to keep a hook type bit in the handle.

I used to do a lot of contract work for a Blue chip chocolate company. They often sent lots of product to be packed elsewhere. One day they had a machine go down & asked me to go have a look at it. The packaging was not the company that had made it. UMM.

Steve.

I have one of those (haven't checked if NOGA or a clone) – it came as part of a toolkit for preparing small bore, stainless steel high pressure piping. It is very easy to use, and fast for tidying the ID of the pipe after cutting to length and coning the OD.

I was sceptical when I first saw it – but I'm a convert now.

Expensive for such a simple tool, but they are good.

I use these often, 6mm, 10mm and 16mm ones.

MSC sell them for £33 complete (+VAT).

Jim

I have a few of the NOGA offerings – the large handled kit, a large handled single unit, mainly for deburring edges, corners and sheet edges, and a mini-kit.

To be honest, I NEVER use the countersink capability – I find it awkward and an uncomfortable motion. For CSK deburring, I have some of these:

Ann I use them in a small battery powered drill – that works very well, at slow speed, and one gets the hang of it very quickly – easy to deburr a hole drilled, or apply a more prominent CSK to a tapped hole, etc.

For deburring corners of material, such a milled flat surface edges, or guillotined sheet metal edges, etc, the NOGA kits work well, but I find the long handled types uncomfortable and when doing inside curved edges for example, the need to rotate the tool in a compound fashion while sliding the cutter along the edge is uncomfortable – it requires the whole wrist and fore-arm to rotate, rather than fingers and wrist.

The Mini-Kit is my go-to deburrer ( is that a word??) – very slick to use, quick and easy. Hard to describe the uncomfortable action, but its like whittling a chicken egg sized object with a carving knife versus a penknife…

The NOGA kits I have – this one is new and used maybe a half dozen times – probably won't ever use it again…

This is just a single tool, with spare deburring blades in the handle – gets used when really heavy cuts are needed..

And my favourite: The handle is 80mm long, 16mm across flats

Joe

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Price has increased to £34 from catalogue.

Jim

It's not counterfeit, what's the best way to put it? Nonbranded? They're made from the same moulds, just have the noga logo removed in that square box.

Can't say I've ever had a problem – but I do only use it for deburring. If I want to countersink a hole, I … well …. countersink the hole.

I still have my original Noga from 1982 and still works well. Noga works really well, and to me is worth my money to buy a quality tool that easily does a great job of deburring. The knock off blades are junk and break. So I now juts buy the genuine ones. There is loads of accessories that still work with the early handles like I have, that have a multitude of deburring knives in it's handle. The rotodrive is really great to use. I only have the smaller one.

Did you purchase the same one as mine Tony?