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How To Repurpose Center Drill?

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I read somewhere that a broken center drill could be reuse as a spotting drill by grinding off the rest of the nub. This doesn't work. The drill won't drill. I tried grinding a facet at a shallower angle at the cutting edge. This works,but requires quite a bit of drilling force. Is this expected? Or does the web need to be relieved as well. Center drills don't really look like spotting drills in the center, and probably they shouldn't because that wasn't their original purpose. It would be...

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