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You need a drill press table that supports your workpiece, a fence that keeps it square, and a stop block that lets you repeat holes without measuring every time. The stock tables on most benchtop drill presses are too small, too slick, and too ea...
If you own a Central Machinery 12-speed drill press, the manual is the document that tells you which belt, what spindle speeds, how to adjust the table, and how to identify each component by number. Central Machinery is Harbor Freight's house bran...
Most people run a drill press at one speed for years: whatever it happened to be set at the day they bought it. Then a big spade bit chatters, or a small twist bit in metal squeals and burns, and they realize the machine had gears all along. Learn...
A dead motor feels like the end of a worn-out import press, but before you write off the whole machine or order the first motor you find, it pays to ask two questions: is the motor actually the problem, and is this press worth a new motor at all? ...
Every home-shop owner eventually faces this fork: the bench is getting crowded, the budget allows one more machine, and the choice is between a mill and a drill press. The forums will tell you a mill "does everything a drill press does and more," ...
Among vintage drill press people, Walker-Turner has a quiet, serious reputation. The company built heavy, well-engineered machines in New Jersey from the 1920s through the 1950s, and its drill presses, especially the Driver Line, are prized for sm...
The Delta 1/4 HP drill press is the smallest of the Delta bench machines, and that single fact answers most questions about it before you even plug it in. A quarter horsepower is modest power, chosen for compact presses meant for small, precise ho...
If you have a Craftsman drill press - the 113.213850, the 10-inch benchtop, the 15-inch floor model - and you want a vise for the table, here is the most useful thing anyone can tell you: Craftsman does not sell a current drill press vise on Amazo...
You are welding steel plate on a construction site, fabricating a trailer frame in a garage, or repairing a bridge beam in the field. You need to drill a clean, precise hole through thick steel, but the workpiece is too large to move to a shop dri...
It is Sunday, the store is closed, and the chuck has to come off now. You do not own a wedge set or a taper drift, and the internet is full of people swearing you must have them. You do not, at least not always. Removing a drill press chuck withou...
There is a well known move among Harbor Freight tool owners: buy the machine, then quietly upgrade the one or two parts that hold it back. On a Central Machinery or Bauer drill press, the chuck is often exactly that part. The factory chuck can run...
The Craftsman floor drill press has been sold in enough configurations over the decades that shopping for one on the used market is genuinely confusing. Sears offered floor presses under the Craftsman name ranging from a modest 15-inch swing to a ...
