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A JET drill press is a serious machine, so it is natural to want it doing serious joinery, and mortising is where that thought usually lands. Here is the thing nobody tells you up front: JET does not sell a mortise attachment badged for its drill ...
The phrase sounds a little clunky, but the idea behind a "drill press portable attachable" is simple and genuinely useful: a device you attach your own drill to that gives you portable drill-press function. It is the answer for anyone who wants st...
When a steel job calls for clean, accurate holes in the field, the DeWalt DWE1622K is one of the most recognized tools for the work. It is not a woodworking bench press; it is a two-speed magnetic drill, the machine ironworkers and fabricators cla...
A drill press switch looks simple, but the wiring behind it is the one place on the machine where a mistake can hurt you or ruin a motor. Whether you are replacing a failed switch, chasing a machine that will not start, or rewiring an old Craftsma...
You only have to watch a workpiece spin out of a poorly clamped drill press table once to understand why hold-down clamps matter. A drill bit binds in the hole, the workpiece breaks free, and now you have a spinning chunk of wood or metal swinging...
Holding a workpiece by hand under a spinning bit is how holes get ruined and fingers get hurt, and a vise solves both by gripping the work and letting you clamp it to the table. A wooden drill press vise is a satisfying shop project, and for woodw...
A vintage Craftsman drill press is a specific kind of temptation. It sits in an estate sale or garage with a few decades of dust, heavy cast-iron construction that modern lightweight machines cannot match, and a price that seems absurdly low for w...
A quill that will not spring back, or a feed handle that kicks when you release it, points at the return spring, and the temptation is to dive straight into the cap. The checks first are what separate a clean repair from a spring that jumps loose ...
The Delta 16-1/2 floor drill press, usually the model 17-965, is one of the classic full-size Delta presses, and it is a machine that rewards an owner who understands it. A 16-1/2-inch swing on a cast-iron floor column, a 3/4-HP motor, and a wide ...
The idea is understandable. A lathe spins a workpiece so a tool can shape it, and a drill press spins a chuck, so people wonder if they can mount a piece in the drill press and turn it. You will find videos of exactly this, usually small, light sh...
Search for a bowling ball drill press and you will find something that looks like a shop drill press but is not one. Drilling a bowling ball is a precision fitting job, the finger and thumb holes have to match a bowler's hand, span, and pitch angl...
There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with owning a solid, heavy 15-inch floor press that the manufacturer no longer stocks. The DP15501 still bores clean holes, the cast iron still shrugs off vibration, and then one day the belt cr...
