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A Fleetwood heavy duty drill press is the sort of machine you meet secondhand: solid, cast iron, clearly built for real work, and wearing a name that is more familiar from old catalogs than from today's tool aisle. The question is always whether i...
The phrase "Craftsman 15-inch drill press 12-speed 1 HP" turns up in parts searches, eBay listings, and shop forums constantly, and for good reason: Sears sold several variations of this class of floor press under the Craftsman name for decades. I...
The Proxxon TBM 115 is a miniature precision bench drill press designed specifically for micro-drilling applications: jewelry, model building, electronics, watchmaking, and fine-craft work where hole diameters are measured in fractions of a millim...
I bought my first cross slide drill press vise on a whim, mostly because it looked serious and I liked the idea of turning two little cranks to place a hole. It arrived heavy, blue, and coated in grease. I bolted it straight onto my drill-press ta...
A proper drill press earns its keep by drilling perfectly straight, square holes and by holding the work steady while it does. A DIY drill press, usually built around a handheld drill held in a shop-made stand, can approach that, but only if you a...
The word antique gets thrown around loosely at flea markets, but with a Delta drill press it means something specific and useful. Delta started stamping serial numbers on its machines in 1941. A Delta with no serial plate, and no holes where one b...
Someone always asks it in the farm-tool groups: I found an old hand crank drill press in a barn, what is it worth? And the answers scatter wildly, because antique hand crank drill press value does not come from one thing. It comes from the maker, ...
A Craftsman drill press parts diagram is the map between what broke on your machine and what to order. Without it, you are guessing at part names, numbers, and compatibility; with it, you can identify the exact component, confirm it belongs to you...
A drill press clamp is the humblest accessory in the shop and quietly one of the most important. It is the thing standing between a securely held workpiece and a spinning metal helicopter. Plenty of people own clamps and still hold parts by hand o...
Wood forgives a lot, right up until it does not. A press that seems fine boring shelf pins will scorch the rim of a large Forstner hole, splinter the back of a through hole, or wander on an angled cut, and the reason almost always traces to two th...
Among old-machine enthusiasts, the Fosdick name is well known: the company built radial drilling machines that were serious industrial equipment in their day, and survivors still turn up in shops and at auctions. A Fosdick radial arm drill is not ...
The belt broke on Saturday. You pull out the snapped piece, squint at the model plate on the head, and realize the number is too faded to read. Or maybe the plate reads clearly and you have a model number, but three different online listings claim...
