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A drill press wearing the Illinois Industrial Tool name raises the same practical questions as any tool sold under a brand you do not see every day: what is it, who stands behind it, and how would I keep it running? These are fair questions, and t...
Pocket holes are one of the fastest ways to join wood: an angled hole that lets a screw drive from an inconspicuous spot into the mating piece. Most people make them with a dedicated jig, but a drill press can produce clean, consistent pocket hole...
Imagine a part that has to be drilled, then countersunk, then tapped, the same three operations, on piece after piece after piece. On an ordinary drill press that means changing tooling three times per part, or shuffling the part between three sep...
A drill press assumes something you rarely check: that the table sits exactly perpendicular to the bit. When it does not, every hole leans, and you usually discover it only after a dowel will not seat or a bolt goes in crooked. Squaring up the tab...
A sanding drum spinning in a drill press looks like the real thing from across the shop. Get closer, run a curved piece of poplar against it, and the gap shows up in about a minute. The drum digs a faint groove at one height because nothing moves ...
A drill press spins a chuck, so it is natural to wonder whether you can turn a small wooden piece on it like a lathe. The honest answer is that you can do a narrow slice of what a lathe does, and only with the grain oriented one way and the tool h...
Drilling through steel plate, aluminum angle, or stainless bar stock with a benchtop press is like cutting firewood with a steak knife. It can work, but it takes forever, burns the bit, and leaves you frustrated. Metal needs slow speed, high torqu...
There comes a point in most shops when the benchtop drill press stops being enough. The work gets taller, the holes get deeper, or you simply run out of bench, and the answer is a standing drill press, the floor-mounted machine that trades benchto...
Delta is one of the most respected names in stationary shop machinery, and its floor drill presses are the kind of tools that outlast their owners. Search the lineup and you find machines like the 16-1/2-inch floor presses and the 17-965, full-hei...
Jewelry work asks a drill press for finesse, not force: tiny bits, delicate materials, and holes placed precisely on small parts. That makes choosing one different from picking a general shop machine, because the features that matter for a big woo...
You are standing in front of a full-height floor press with a red cast-iron head, a laser crosshair, and a crank that raises the table, and you want to know whether the JET JDP-17 drill press is the one machine you buy once and keep. The short ver...
The Craftsman 34-inch radial drill press is a benchtop radial arm drill press from the Sears-era Craftsman 113-series line, built to allow the head to swing out over a wide radius rather than drilling straight down on a fixed column like a convent...
