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Watch someone use a Dremel Workstation for the first time and you will usually see the same thing: one hand working the plunge lever, the other pinching a tiny workpiece a fingernail away from a spinning bit. It works right up until the bit grabs ...
The idea is seductive: a drill press already spins a workpiece, so surely with the right vise and a tool holder it can turn metal like a lathe. Videos make it look plausible. Then you actually try to face the end of a steel rod, feel the whole hea...
Search "DeWalt drill press" and the results can confuse you, because they mix two very different ideas. DeWalt does not make a traditional benchtop or floor woodworking drill press; what DeWalt builds is the mag drill, a portable magnetic drill th...
A Craftsman standing (floor) drill press is the machine that has anchored countless home shops, and used ones still turn up constantly. "Standing" just means floor-standing rather than benchtop, and Craftsman built these in several sizes and speed...
The Central Machinery T-583 is one of the better-known Harbor Freight drill presses, a 16-speed benchtop machine that found its way into a lot of small shops. If you own one, you already know its appeal: it drills accurately, handles most benchtop...
Harbor Freight is the first stop for many home shop owners who need a small drill press without spending much. The store sells benchtop presses under the Bauer and Central Machinery brands, and the smallest machine in their line is the Bauer eight...
The first time you watch an annular cutter work, it looks like cheating. Where a twist bit grinds an entire hole into chips and labors through thick steel, the annular cutter carves only a thin ring and drops out a clean slug, making a large hole ...
The Craftsman drill press stand model 25921 belongs to a category people forget existed. Before affordable benchtop drill presses were everywhere, Sears sold a clever middle ground: a stand that held your portable 1/4-inch or 3/8-inch electric dri...
The Duracraft MD-1600 is a vintage benchtop press that has outlived its maker, which is exactly why owners end up hunting chuck parts by model number and by the 3/4 inch chuck capacity stamped on it. With the company long gone, you cannot order a ...
Harbor Freight is the first stop for many home shop owners who need a benchtop drill press without spending much. The store sells two lines under the same roof: the newer Bauer brand and the older Central Machinery name. Both are benchtop machines...
The Craftsman name has been on drill presses for the better part of a century, which is part of the charm and part of the problem. When you search for Craftsman 103 drill press parts, you're potentially looking at a machine made during any one of ...
You flip the switch, the motor hums the way it always has, and the chuck barely turns. Or there's a slap-slap-slap coming from under the belt cover and a faint smell of hot rubber. That is almost always a belt that has stretched, glazed, or cracke...
