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Porter Cable built a reputation on job-site tools — circular saws, sanders, routers — but their drill press lineup is a different story. The machines are real, the parts ecosystem is thinner than you'd expect for a name-brand tool, and the model h...
Of all the small changes you can make to a drill press, upgrading the chuck gives back the most per minute spent. The factory chuck on many presses runs with more wobble than it should and struggles to hold very small bits, while the rest of the m...
Swapping the chuck on a Harbor Freight press is one of the first upgrades most owners want, whether the factory chuck runs out or you are fitting a better keyless one. Knowing how to remove the chuck from a Harbor Freight drill press comes down to...
Grainger sells a lot of industrial tools under house brands, and Dayton is one of the oldest and most trusted of them. If your Dayton drill press needs a part, the good news is that Grainger is still very much in the parts business. The challenge ...
The Ellis 9000 is not a Home Depot drill press. If you've found yourself looking for an Ellis 9000 manual, you're probably dealing with a piece of industrial or trade-quality equipment that has been running in a professional shop, a school, or an ...
When a Delta 11-950 starts slipping under load, squealing on startup, or bogging down in a cut, the belt is almost always the reason, and a change is one of the simpler repairs on the machine. The trick is that a belt change is also your chance to...
Delta drill presses have a following for a reason, and part of that reason is the heavy cast-iron table that makes the machine feel planted. So when a table cracks in a fall, or the surface gets chewed up and the center hole opens into a crater, o...
The Grizzly G0925 gets called the "baby" drill press by its own manufacturer, and that is fair. It is a compact 8-inch benchtop press that weighs 34 pounds, stands about 23-1/2 inches tall, and fits on the corner of a small bench. But the features...
Somewhere in the middle of most drill press restorations comes the moment when the old chuck has to come off. Maybe it is sprung and drilling off center, maybe you just want to clean the taper underneath, or maybe you are converting to a better ch...
There is a small, avoidable moment of frustration that happens on almost every drill press: you line up the bit on your mark, lean in to check it, and your own head throws a shadow right over the spot you are trying to see. The overhead shop light...
There is a specific kind of buyer who lands on the JET benchtop drill press search: someone who trusts the JET name from a table saw or a bandsaw, has limited floor space, and assumes there is a compact JET press that drops onto a workbench and ca...
You reach for the feed lever, one arm spins loose in your palm, and the quill barely moves. Before you order a harbor freight drill press replacement handle crank, slow down and find out what actually failed. Most "broken handle" jobs I see are re...
