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The drill press came with a chuck and maybe a cheap bit, and for a while you make holes and think that is all it does. Then you watch someone bore a flat-bottomed recess for a clock movement, or drill a clean row of shelf-pin holes without a singl...
If your Craftsman drill press came from Sears, you are dealing with a specific era of the brand: the Sears-era 113.xxxxxx machines, built in the United States and Canada through various manufacturers under Sears's direction from the mid-20th centu...
There is a difference between a cheap drill press that is a bargain and a cheap drill press that is a trap, and from the outside they can look identical. Both are inexpensive, both drill a hole in the store demo, both have a full-color box promisi...
Delta built drill presses that people hold onto, which is exactly why the used market is full of them and why they are worth buying. A used Delta can give you cast-iron quality and a name with real parts support for far less than a new machine, bu...
Finding the manual for an old Craftsman drill press is only half the job. The other half, the half that actually makes the machine drill straight and run right, is knowing how to use it. A manual is not bedtime reading; it is a working reference w...
The spindle is the shaft that carries the chuck and delivers every bit of the motor's turning to your bit. When it wears, the symptoms are the ones that make a press feel worn out: runout that no chuck swap fixes, a rumble that grows with speed, o...
A woodworker shopping for a benchtop drill press faces a market designed to sell the wrong things. The listings lead with laser crosshairs, big chuck numbers, and motor horsepower, none of which is what woodworking actually rewards. What wood need...
Most botched motor swaps do not fail because someone bought a bad motor. They fail because the new motor would not bolt to the bracket, or its shaft was the wrong size for the pulley, or it spun the spindle at double the intended speed. An IMS DP-...
You cleared a corner of the bench, stacked some maple for a shelf, and you want holes that go straight down instead of wandering the way they do with a handheld drill. That is the job this Porter-Cable 3.2-amp 5-speed bench drill press review is b...
Craftsman drill presses are shop mainstays, sold by the thousands across decades, which means "Craftsman drill press table" covers everything from a small vintage benchtop casting to a newer model with a tilting table. That range is exactly why or...
The first time I stood next to a Craftsman 17 inch drill press, it changed how I thought about the tool. My little bench press had trained me to work small. This one, all cast iron and floor-planted, drilled a 1/2 inch hole through steel plate lik...
The question I hear most often from Rockwell 17-600 owners isn't "where do I buy parts?" It's "will this part from a Delta actually fit my machine?" It's the right question to ask — and the answer is more nuanced than most forum posts admit.
