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For a lot of people, the drill press search starts and ends at the same place: the tool aisle at Home Depot, or its website late at night. It is convenient, the selection is right in front of you, and you can often walk out with the machine the sa...
A benchtop drill press packs real capability into a small footprint, and a stand unlocks it, raising the machine to a comfortable height on a base rigid enough to drill accurately. But a benchtop machine on a stand has its own quirks, its limited ...
I still remember the first time I watched a mag drill grab a steel beam like a limpet and core a clean hole in seconds. No clamping, no bolting to a table — just magnetic force doing work that a benchtop drill press could never touch. If you've go...
Search for a magnetic drill press vise and you get a confusing pile of results: portable steel-drilling machines that weigh forty pounds, magnetic mounts the size of a hockey puck, and plain cast iron vises with no magnet anywhere on them. That is...
Palmgren is a name metalworkers know well, largely through its vises and work-holding, and the same company builds drill presses aimed at the serious shop. If you have run across a Palmgren drill press and wondered where it fits, the answer starts...
If you've ever wrestled with a wobbly import drill press—chasing runout, fighting a vague depth stop, squinting at a belt chart taped inside the head—you already know what you're buying when you step up to a Baileigh. The DP-3814B is Baileigh's mi...
If you've ever tried to cut a mortise with a router jig and ended up with walls that look like you were holding the tool in your teeth, you already know why a mortising attachment exists. The hollow chisel mortiser attachment for drill press is on...
Craftsman sold drill presses for decades, which is wonderful until you need a part. The name on the machine tells you almost nothing about which components fit, because "Craftsman" covered many models made by different manufacturers over the years...
Milling means removing material by moving the work sideways past a spinning cutter, cutting slots, flattening a face, squaring an edge. People look at a drill press, see a spinning cutter pointing down, and wonder if they can add an XY table and m...
You fire up the drill press, feed a bit into hardwood, and the motor groans. The belt slips. The smell of burnt rubber fills the shop. You tighten the motor mount bolts another half turn, and the next time you run it, the bearings sound like grave...
A mini drill press bench is exactly what it sounds like: a small drilling machine that sits on a workbench, desk, or table and handles precision work that a full-size drill press is too large and too powerful to do well. If you have ever tried to ...
The **SKIL 3320-01 3.2 amp 10-inch drill press** was one of the more capable machines in its class when it was in production, offering a genuine cast iron table and five step-pulley speeds. It is now discontinued, which means no factory parts, no ...
