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If you've inherited a Delta floor drill press and you're pretty sure it's a 17-600, the first thing worth doing is making sure you're right. The 17-600 and its successor, the 17-900, look similar enough to create real confusion — and the two machi...
The bit keeps wobbling, or you want to fit a keyless chuck, or the jaws are packed with grit and rust. Whatever brought you here, learning how to remove a chuck from a drill press is a skill every owner should have, and it is far easier than it lo...
A drill press is accurate straight down, but the moment you need the same hole in twenty parts, or a row of evenly spaced holes, or a hole at a repeatable distance from an edge, doing it by eye gets slow and inconsistent. That is what a jig is for...
The SKIL 3320 is a 10-inch, 5-speed benchtop drill press that was widely sold through home centers and has since been discontinued in North America. The belt is the most common maintenance item on any step-pulley drill press, and on the 3320 it is...
If you have shopped for a Craftsman drill press, new or used, you have run into the "2/3 HP" figure and probably wondered what it actually delivers. Here is the honest answer up front: 2/3 HP on a Craftsman benchtop press is almost always a peak o...
Your belt let go mid-hole, or it is cracked and squealing, and the obvious move is to search "10 drill press replacement v belt," add the first result to the cart, and get back to work. That is exactly how a lot of people end up with a belt that i...
Stand in the drill press aisle and the sizes read like shoe sizes: 8-inch, 10-inch, 12-inch. It is easy to assume the number describes how deep the machine drills or how thick a board it swallows. It describes neither. The 10-inch label is a swing...
You want to use your drill press for light milling, slot cutting, or precise pattern work, and you need a table that moves in the X and Y axes with enough accuracy and rigidity to handle the side loads. A milling table or cross slide table is not ...
Somewhere between the tiny 1/3-horsepower hobby presses and the big 3/4-horsepower floor machines sits a whole class of Craftsman drill press 1/2 HP models, and they occupy a genuinely useful middle ground. Enough motor to drive real bits, small e...
Ask a machinist of a certain age what drill press they learned on, and a fair number will tell you it was a Craftsman. Specifically, a Craftsman they found in their dad's garage, or a neighbor's basement, or a shop teacher's hand-me-down. These ma...
Sooner or later every drill press owner needs to get the chuck off, to replace a worn one, to fit a different taper, or to clean and reseat a chuck that keeps slipping. And this is where a lot of people either give up, thinking the chuck is someho...
The WEN 5-speed drill press (most often the 8-inch 4208) is the machine that gets a lot of people their first real drill press. It is compact, simple, and does exactly what a small bench press should. But "5-speed" tells you something important ab...
