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Every drill press table eventually collects a scatter of drilled through holes, the marks of years of work where bits broke through into the cast surface. Beyond looking rough, those holes and the raised burrs around them stop workpieces sitting f...
A 6-inch cross slide vise promises the best of two tools: the secure grip of a big vise and the dial-in positioning of a cross-slide table, in one unit that bolts to your drill press. It is a genuinely useful combination for repeatable, positioned...
Most people looking for a steel speed chart want a single number to dial in and forget. The number matters, but by itself it will not save a bit or produce a clean hole. Steel responds to the whole setup: the speed, yes, but also the feed pressure...
Ryobi benchtop presses are common in home shops, and the chuck comes off for the usual reasons: an upgrade to a better keyless chuck, a service, or a wobble worth curing. The method is the same friction taper routine as any benchtop press, but a c...
When the quill on your Craftsman press stops snapping back and you have to lift it by hand, the return spring has given out. Replacing the spring on a Craftsman drill press restores that self-returning feed, but this is the one repair that has a r...
You put a big hole saw or a large twist bit in an old Craftsman drill press, pull the trigger, and the bit screams, smokes, and skates across the metal instead of cutting it. The press is running too fast, and no amount of pressure fixes that. Wha...
Aluminum looks like the easy metal, and then a bit grabs, climbs the flutes, and welds a gummy ribbon of metal to itself halfway through the hole. Anyone who has drilled aluminum on a drill press knows that squeal. The fix is rarely a better machi...
The term hand drill press gets used for a few different things, and that is exactly why people searching for one end up confused. Sometimes it means a small manual, human-powered drilling machine. Sometimes it means a stand or attachment that turn...
The Delta drill press model 11-990 has a strong reputation among people who own one, which is exactly why so many change hands secondhand. It is a 12-inch cast-iron bench press with a smooth induction motor, the kind of machine that keeps working ...
The Delta 12-inch drill press, most often the model 11-990, is one of those benchtop machines that shows up constantly on the used market and for good reason: it was a well-built, sensibly sized press that Delta sold to homeowners and woodworkers ...
A floor drill press in a woodworking shop can feel like overkill until you use one. Woodworkers do not need the raw power that metalworkers chase, so the case for a floor model rests on different strengths: table height for tall work, a long quill...
A drill press earns its footprint the day you stop thinking of it as a hole-maker and start thinking of it as a joinery machine. Dowel joints, pegboards, candle holders, cutting boards with finger holes, shop jigs: nearly all of them come down to ...
