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Six inches of spindle travel is a lot of quill stroke. It puts a drill press into the territory of heavy industrial and serious production work, where the ability to plunge 5 to 6 inches in a single stroke without repositioning the table is the di...
The JET 13r is a dependable benchtop press with a loyal following, and sooner or later its chuck needs to come off, for worn jaws, a keyless swap, or to service the arbor. JET 13r drill press chuck removal is quick once you recognize that the chuc...
You are browsing used tools online and see a Grizzly benchtop drill press for a fair price. The ad says heavy-duty, 3/4-horsepower, 14-inch swing. It sounds like a serious machine. But Grizzly makes several benchtop models, and not all of them are...
Search for a **Delta 8-inch drill press** and you'll find one machine that earns that label clearly: the Delta 11-950. But you'll also run into the older Delta 11-100, a different machine that sometimes shares search results. This article sorts ou...
A part number like 421B-104 on a model 4214 press sends owners straight to a search box, when the smarter first move is to find out what the part actually is and whether it truly needs replacing. These older presses often fail at a related part, a...
The idea is appealing: you already own a drill press, so why buy a whole separate sander when an attachment can turn the press into a spindle sander for smoothing curves and edges? For Delta owners in particular, the question comes up because Delt...
It is one of the most tempting ideas in a home shop: you already own a drill press, a milling machine is expensive, and both spin a cutter, so why not turn one into the other? The honest answer is that you can do light milling on a drill press wit...
Here's the thing nobody warns you about when you order parts for the Porter-Cable PCXB620DP: the model number alone isn't enough. You'll search "PCXB620DP V-belt," add it to your cart, and feel good about yourself. Then the belt arrives and it's w...
Let me be direct with you: the Craftsman 8-inch 1/3 HP drill press is a capable little machine for what it is — and a frustrating one if you expect more than it's built to deliver. I've seen people praise them and curse them, usually because they ...
The DeWalt DWE1622K is a magnetic drill press, not a conventional column press, and that distinction is the whole ballgame. If you drill holes in structural steel, beams, plates, and fabricated assemblies, this is a serious tool built for the job....
A full-size drill press is overkill for jewelry, and often worse than overkill: it will not close its chuck on the tiny bits jewelry needs, and its lowest speed can still be fast enough to snap a fine bit or crack a bead. A mini drill press is bui...
Every so often someone posts a photo in a tool group, an old drill press they just bought or inherited, and asks the inevitable question: what is it worth? The replies are usually all over the place, because value on an old machine cannot be read ...
