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A lathe spins the work and brings a tool to it. A drill press spins a tool and pushes it down. They look related, and every so often someone with only a drill press wonders whether they can bridge the gap for a small turning job. The honest answer...
You have a WEN drill press and the stock cast iron table is too small for panels, too slick for clamping, and too expensive to scar with through holes. The WEN DPA2412T and DPA2513 tables promise to solve all three problems with a large MDF surfac...
The benchtop drill press is the most common drill press in home shops, and for good reason. It sits on a workbench, plugs into a standard outlet, and handles 90 percent of what most people actually drill. If you have ever wondered whether you need...
You slide a piece of half-inch plate under the spindle, dial the speed down with a knob, and lean into the feed handle. The bit bites clean, no belt to move, no squinting at a chart taped to the head. That is the promise behind the Baileigh DP-120...
You pull the feed handle, the spindle drops into the wood, and then nothing. The quill just sits there instead of gliding back up on its own. Or worse, the handle spins loose and flops. That lazy quill is almost always one part giving up: the coil...
A tabletop drill press is the machine most people picture when they decide to get serious about accurate holes: compact enough to sit on a bench, capable enough to handle real work. And a big-box store like Home Depot is a natural first stop, beca...
Finding parts for the Ellis 9000 drill press is fundamentally different from hunting for parts for a discontinued consumer brand. **Ellis Manufacturing is still in business.** That changes everything.
You can cut a mortise with a drill press. Woodworkers have been doing it for over a century. The attachment that makes it work - a hollow mortising chisel with a drill bit running through its center - is still available, still inexpensive, and sti...
Pull the lever, the bit comes down, a hole appears. That is what you see. What you do not see is a small chain of mechanisms working together to keep that bit spinning at the right speed and traveling in a perfectly straight line. Understanding th...
Somewhere online, someone is bolting a cross-slide vise to a drill press and calling it a milling machine. It looks convincing in photos. The part moves side to side, the cutter spins, chips come off. Then the bit deflects, the quill flexes, and a...
The moment you need to replace a worn part or figure out how a mechanism goes back together, you go looking for a parts diagram, an exploded view that names every piece and shows how they fit. And that is where a lot of repairs stall, because the ...
The belt on your Craftsman 15-1/2 inch drill press lets go mid-hole, the motor spins free, and the spindle coasts to a stop. Now you are staring at a stepped pulley trying to figure out which Craftsman 15-1/2 inch drill press belt to order so this...
