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The 10-inch, 12-speed benchtop drill press is the sweet spot a lot of home shops land on, and for good reason. The 10-inch swing covers most workpieces you will center a hole in, and twelve speeds give you enough range to run tiny bits in wood and...
The idea is tempting. A drill press already spins a chuck, so why not chuck a metal rod, bring a tool to the side, and turn it down like a lathe? People try it, and a few get away with a light cut before something goes wrong. It is worth being cle...
The first time you see a Nova Viking drill press run, something looks wrong, in a good way. There is no belt cover to open, no pulleys to shift, and when you tap a button the spindle simply spins at the exact speed you asked for. This is a drill p...
A WEN 4208 sits on my second bench, and I reach for it more than I expected when I bought it. I thought it would be a starter machine I would eventually replace. Three years later it still handles small drilling, shelf pin layouts, and occasional ...
A drill press assumes you can bring the work to the machine. But a great deal of drilling happens on things that cannot be moved: a steel beam already erected, a ship's hull, a bridge, a large weldment bolted in place. For that world there is the ...
Bauer is Harbor Freight's higher-tier power tool brand, and the 8-inch 5-speed benchtop drill press with light (item 58780) is its compact bench offering. It is aimed at the home shop that wants a real drill press without a floor machine's footpri...
Ryobi drill presses have been quiet workhorses in home shops for years, and if you own one, sooner or later you will need a part: a belt, a chuck, a switch, a table lock. Here is the reality that trips people up. Ryobi has sold several drill press...
Most vises hold work flat and square, which is exactly what you want until the job needs a hole at an angle. That is the niche the Wilton cradle style angle vise fills: it cradles the work and tilts it, so you drill an angled hole without shimming...
Walk into any serious pro shop and the drilling station is rarely a bare drill press. It is a rigid press wearing a purpose-built jig, and for a lot of shops that jig and its gauges come from Innovative Bowling Products. Understanding an Innovativ...
A mobile base makes a floor-standing drill press easy to move, but it also puts the machine up on wheels, and wheels are the enemy of the rock-solid footing accurate drilling needs. The whole art of a good mobile base is resolving that tension: ro...
Pick up an antique hand drill press at a farm sale and the first thing you notice is the heft, the second is that nobody wrote a model number where you can find it, and the third is that a critical part might be missing and you would not know whic...
You found a great deal on an MT2 chuck and a set of MT2 collets, and now you want your press to run them. Before you buy anything else, stop and check one thing, because the plan to convert a drill press spindle to an MT2 spindle fails most often ...
