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The first hole most people drill on a bench drill press wanders. You line up the bit, pull the feed handle, and the tip skates a little before it bites, leaving a hole sitting a hair off the mark. That wander is not bad luck. It is almost always t...
There is a moment every woodworker hits at the drill press: the hole needs to go somewhere the fixed column will not let the spindle reach, or into the middle of a panel too wide to swing under the head. On a standard press you are stuck. On a rad...
Lose the little key that came with your drill press and you hit a wall fast: the chuck will not tighten or release, the machine is useless, and you are staring at a wall of chuck keys online with no idea which one fits. The good news is that the r...
Browse used-tool listings and you will run into machines badged K&F, Cummins, Duracraft, and other names that no longer sell new. Many are 16-speed floor drill presses, and people find them cheap and wonder whether they are worth it. The honest an...
People shopping for a variable-speed drill press often fixate on the motor, assuming that a special motor is what makes the speed adjust. Sometimes that is true, and sometimes the motor is completely ordinary and a mechanical system does the work....
Moving a belt across stepped pulleys to change speed is one of those chores that feels fine the first time and tedious the hundredth. Drill a hole in pine, then a big hole in steel, then back to pine, and you are opening the pulley cover twice per...
Drilling a bead, a pendant, or a thin sheet of silver is not a scaled-down version of drilling a plank, it is a different problem. The holes are tiny, the material is precious, and the bits are fragile enough to snap if the press runs too fast or ...
A bench or floor drill press assumes the work comes to the machine. A lot of metal work does not cooperate: a beam already bolted in place, a large plate too heavy to lift onto a table, a hole in a structure you cannot move. That is the gap a port...
The question sounds like it should have a simple answer, and it does, but not the one most people expect. A drill press and a milling machine look related, both spin a cutter in a vertical spindle over a clamped workpiece, and that resemblance foo...
You are standing in front of a steel beam that needs a hole. The beam is too big for a benchtop drill press, too heavy to move to a shop, and too awkward to clamp to a table. A hand drill will wander, chew up the bit, and leave you with an oval ho...
