Browse our complete collection of benchtop drill press reviews, floor drill guides, chuck & vise setups, and maintenance tips.
Aluminum looks like the easy metal. It is soft, it cuts fast, and a sharp bit sails through it. That reputation is exactly why it trips people up. Aluminum is gummy, it grabs bits, and it welds itself to a cutting edge if you get the setup wrong. ...
The drill press that came out of the box is a hole-making machine. With a handful of accessories, the same press becomes a joinery tool, a sanding station, and a repeat-drilling jig that turns out identical parts all afternoon. Woodworkers who fee...
Most cracked glass happens before the bit ever touches it. The pane was resting on a hard, uneven surface, or there was no water ready, or the piece could slide, and the crack that ruined it was set up by a rushed setup, not by the drilling itself...
The first time a DP15000 owner goes looking for a replacement chuck or a fresh drive belt, they usually hit the same wall: the machine still runs fine, but nobody at the counter recognizes the model number, and half the parts photos online look al...
When a woodworker or metalworker decides it is time for a real floor-standing drill press, JET is one of the first names on the short list. JET has built a reputation for machines that sit between hobby tools and full industrial equipment, well ma...
Someone hands you a Craftsman 15-1/2 drill press parts number over the phone and you order it, only to find the chuck or belt does not fit when it arrives. That mismatch happens constantly with these old Sears presses, and it comes down to one thi...
JET has built drill presses for a long time, and the lineup spans benchtop, floor, and radial machines with names like JDP-17MF, JDP-17, and J-2530. That variety is why ordering the wrong part is easy: two JET presses can look similar and share no...
When a Craftsman press motor finally gives up, the frame designation on the motor plate becomes the most important number in the whole repair, and on many of these presses that number is 56Z. Get the frame right and the new motor bolts up as if it...
Tapping threads by hand is slow and unforgiving, and tapping under power on a bare drill press is how taps snap and threads go crooked. Between those two frustrations sits a clever piece of tooling that a lot of people have never heard of: the tap...
The Central Machinery 8-inch 5-speed bench drill press is one of the most visible entry-level machines at Harbor Freight. It shows up in garages, schools, and workshops across the country. Whether it belongs in yours depends on what you are actual...
The arbor is the small adapter that decides whether your chuck even fits your spindle, and choosing the wrong one is the most common reason a new chuck will not seat. Choosing a replacement arbor for a drill press is simple once you know the two t...
The Klutch cross slide drill press vise has a loyal following among people who drill hole patterns in metal, and for good reason: it is a heavy cast-iron cross slide that lets you position a part in two directions by turning handwheels, then lock ...
