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It is a tempting idea. You have a solid benchtop drill press, you wish it stood on the floor with more room under the chuck, and somewhere online someone swears they just bolted theirs to a taller pipe and called it a floor model. Before you buy a...
When a job calls for drilling steel that will not come to a bench, a beam in place, a bolted plate, a standing column, the tool you need is a magnetic drill, and a big-box store like Home Depot is a common first place to look. You can see the mach...
Search for drill press stand ideas and you will drown in clever-looking builds, rolling carts, flip-top stations, towers with a dozen drawers. Most of them look great in a photo. Fewer of them make the drill press drill better. Before you copy a b...
Delta built its reputation on stationary woodworking machines, so it makes sense that woodworkers go looking for a Delta mortising attachment when they want square holes from a Delta drill press. The search gets confusing fast, because Delta's own...
You set up a careful hole, drill it, and the far side comes out at a slight angle, or a dowel seated in it leans. The usual culprit is not your technique but the table: it is not square to the bit. A drill press table that sits even a degree off w...
WEN pulled off something clever in the drill press world. It took a category dominated by either cheap, forgettable benchtop machines or expensive floor presses and filled the middle with a whole ladder of models, each a clear step up from the las...
If you have been shopping vintage tools, you have seen the name in two forms: Delta, and Delta Rockwell. They are the same lineage. For a stretch of the 20th century, Delta's machines were sold under the Rockwell Manufacturing umbrella, and the dr...
If you've been drilling freehand on your press's factory cast-iron table and wondering why your holes wander, a purpose-built MDF drill press table is the fix. Rockler has one of the better-known designs in the woodworking world, and people search...
The Delta 14-070 drill press is a 14-inch floor-standing machine that Delta sold as an entry-level floor press, and it has a devoted following alongside a fair share of honest criticism. Owners who use it for hole-saw work and general drilling kee...
Aluminum sheet looks like the easiest thing in the world to drill, right up until the bit grabs, the sheet spins into a spinning aluminum saw blade, and you are left with an oval hole and a bent piece. Learning how to drill holes in aluminum sheet...
Here is the honest answer upfront, because a lot of buyers search for a DeWalt drill press expecting to find something like a DeWalt version of a WEN or JET floor press: DeWalt does not make a traditional wood or bench drill press. If you picture ...
The Delta 8-inch drill press 11-950 has a small, loyal following, and once you spend time with one it is easy to see why. It is a compact bench press from an era when even entry machines were built with cast iron and induction motors, and that con...
