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Duracraft is not a company you will find with an active website or a customer service number that picks up. It is a brand from the 1970s and early 1980s that sold Taiwanese-made drill presses through Kmart, Sears competitors, and discount retailer...
Every so often someone decides to build their own drill press rather than buy one, sometimes to save money, sometimes for the challenge, sometimes to drill in a way no store machine allows. It is a genuinely satisfying project, but it comes with a...
The vintage Craftsman drill press vise is one of those small tools that turns up in every estate-sale box of shop iron, usually seized solid, painted over, and dismissed as junk. It is almost never junk. These cast-iron vises were built to clamp a...
The day the return spring breaks, you know instantly. You pull the feed handle down, drill your hole, let go, and the quill just hangs there instead of snapping back up. Suddenly you are lifting the spindle by hand between every hole. A drill pres...
The first square hole most people cut on a drill press comes out looking chewed, not clean. The corners are torn, one wall bows, and the chisel screams on the way down. Then they assume the tool is junk and give up. It usually is not the tool. It ...
Someone hands you a drill press bit and says "put it in the chuck," and if you have never used one, you stare at the three-jawed metal cylinder wondering which part is the chuck and how it opens. It is worth demystifying, because the chuck is the ...
You open the garage door and the Craftsman bench press is right there, just as it has been for decades. The nameplate on the rear of the head reads something like 113.213080. You want to know what you actually own, what it can do, and whether you ...
My floor-standing drill press weighs enough that the first time I tried to reposition it, I pulled something in my back and knocked over a can of finish in the process. It sat in that same inconvenient corner for two years because moving it was su...
A portable drill press stand will never replace a floor-standing drill press. Let us get that out of the way immediately. But for woodworkers who do not have room for a benchtop press, for site carpenters who need accurate perpendicular holes on l...
A Powermatic drill press is a machine you buy once and keep, and the PM2800B in particular is a substantial floor-standing tool. That heft is exactly why owners want it on wheels, and exactly why the wrong base disappoints. A mobile base has to ca...
Small shops run out of floor before they run out of ideas, which is why the band saw and drill press so often end up sharing a stand, a bench, or a flip-top cart. Pairing them is a smart use of space, but it raises real questions: can one table se...
The belt on your Guardian Power BDM-58-5S finally glazed over and started slipping, you went looking for a replacement, and you discovered what every owner of this machine learns fast: there is no factory parts counter. Sourcing guardian power dri...
