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Atlas drill presses have a quiet cult following, and once you understand the company's history, you see why. Atlas Press Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan built solid, affordable machine tools for decades, and it also built drill presses that Sears s...
The Delta Shop Master line is Delta's value tier, the machines aimed at the home shop and the budget-conscious buyer rather than the professional cabinet shop. Over the years Delta has sold several drill presses under or alongside the Shop Master ...
Woodworkers tend to buy a drill press to solve one problem, drilling a row of straight shelf-pin holes, then discover it doing a dozen jobs a hand drill never could. Which press deserves the bench space depends less on power than on two things a w...
Removing a chuck from a drill press is a straightforward procedure when you know which type of mount it uses and have the right tool for the job. The difficulty comes from assuming you can just pull or twist the chuck off — which damages the spind...
The Guardian Power BDM-58-5S is one of those imported benchtop presses that turns up under several names, and owners often go looking for parts by the model number stamped on the casting. When the chuck wobbles, drops bits, or needs upgrading, cha...
A new chuck arrives, you go to install it, and you realize nobody explained the one thing that actually matters: the chuck does not screw on or bolt on. It holds by a friction taper, seated with a firm push, and if you do it wrong the chuck either...
Harbor Freight's Bauer line is the newer face of the store's power tool department, pitched as a step up from the older Central Machinery brand. The Bauer ten-inch five-speed benchtop drill press is the most popular model in the line, and it is ea...
Of all the parts of a drill press, the chuck key is the smallest, the cheapest, and the one most likely to hurt you. It is easy to lose, easy to leave in the chuck, and easy to replace with the wrong size out of a junk drawer. Yet this little tool...
If you've ever held a cordless drill and tried to bore a perfectly perpendicular hole freehand, you already know the problem. You watch the bit wander, the hole exits slightly off-angle, and suddenly your dowel joint is a disaster. That's exactly ...
There is a difference between drilling a hole on a drill press and truly operating one. Anyone can pull the lever and make the bit go down. Operating the machine means knowing what every control does, adjusting the press for the job in front of yo...
I still remember the first time I fired up a belt-drive floor drill press in a real woodworking shop. The smell of machine oil, the satisfying thunk of the quill engaging, the sense that this machine was built to outlast everyone in the room. The ...
The Powermatic 1150 is a vintage floor-standing variable-speed drill press from Powermatic's American manufacturing era — a machine that stopped production decades ago but remains highly regarded on the used market for its build quality and genuin...
