Being in even darker Afrika than myself, you may have to order those online. most common low wattage resistors and most capacitors will need an 0.8mm drill and maybe it is handy to have a 1mm drill too for fatter legs.... you can always make the hole a little bigger when needed with the point of a knife...but you can't make too big holes smaller...
#72, #68, then some larger ones to cover fat diode leads and such.
There's various dealers on eBay selling surplus or resharpened carbide bits (search for "micro carbide drill bits"). Sometimes bargain tool dealers will have assortments of those bits for good prices.
Regular high-speed-steel twist drills are OK for those occasional larger holes, but if you can't get the carbide bits, you can get by with HSS bits if you resharpen them frequently (a ceramic sharpening stone works). Machine-shop suppliers should have the "number drills" as they're called over here, or the metric equivalents.
There's various dealers on eBay selling surplus or resharpened carbide bits (search for "micro carbide drill bits"). Sometimes bargain tool dealers will have assortments of those bits for good prices.
Regular high-speed-steel twist drills are OK for those occasional larger holes, but if you can't get the carbide bits, you can get by with HSS bits if you resharpen them frequently (a ceramic sharpening stone works). Machine-shop suppliers should have the "number drills" as they're called over here, or the metric equivalents.
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