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Before you bolt anything together, know this: a drill press spins its work vertically and pushes down, while a wood lathe spins it horizontally and lets you present a tool along its length. That difference is why a drill press makes, at best, a cr...
The small cast table on a drill press is fine for metalwork and awkward for wood, which is why a homemade table is the upgrade most people build first. But a table is only worth having if it stays flat and square, because those two qualities are w...
The Craftsman 113-series drill press is probably the most widely owned vintage bench and floor drill press in American garages. Sears sold millions of them from the 1950s through the 1990s, in sizes from small 10-inch benchtops to full 15½-inch fl...
I bought my first WEN accessory almost by accident. I needed a drill press table in a hurry, my budget was thin after buying the press itself, and the WEN unit was sitting there at a price that felt almost too reasonable. I braced myself for disap...
When a Craftsman owner decides to move up from a benchtop press, the floor model is the destination. These are the full-height, freestanding machines that reach the center of wide workpieces, carry stronger motors, and hold holes straighter thanks...
For years I chased hole accuracy the hard way, with a hand drill and a lot of hope. Then I set up a proper drill press stand, clamped a scrap block, and drilled ten holes that were actually perpendicular and actually where I wanted them. That was ...
A floor drill press is a wonderful machine and a miserable thing to move. It is tall, top-heavy, and bolted down by its own weight, which is exactly why a mobile base is such a tempting upgrade for a shop where the press has to share floor space. ...
The 1/3 HP Craftsman drill press is one of the most debated tools on the used market. People defend it because they grew up using one, and people dismiss it because the horsepower sounds low. Both groups are partly right. The 1/3 HP machines, spec...
Search for a Bridgeport drill press and you run straight into a small myth. Bridgeport, the legendary name stamped on more machine-shop tools than almost any other, is famous for milling machines, not drill presses. So if you are hunting for one, ...
An 8-inch benchtop drill press is the smallest machine most people consider a real drill press. It is not a Dremel workstation or a precision jeweler's tool. It is a bench-mounted machine with an induction motor, a keyed chuck, and a cast iron tab...
The Delta 14-040 is a well-built press, and its chuck removes cleanly by breaking a Morse taper, but the smart move is to diagnose why you are removing it before you commit. On a Delta drill press 14-040, chuck removal is a two-minute job, yet man...
Nothing is more frustrating than ordering a drill press vise, bolting it to your table, and watching it shift the moment you start drilling. Most of the time, the vise itself is fine. The problem is the mounting hardware - the T-bolts, studs, or h...
