Drill Press Buying Advice

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

When doing heavy drilling in the drill press it's worth putting a prop of some sort under the table at the outboard edge, you will then find that the only movement is the drill head, have not got a cure for that.

Ian S C

[larry phelan 1Participant @larryphelan1]

With a bit more time on my hands this morning,I dug out my Aldi 5 speed bench drill [been buried for the last year]

.Set it up on the bench and drilled a 5mm pilot hole,then reduced speed and went straight to 10mm with no problem. With a further speed reduction,11.5mm. Did not experience any real flexing using the 11.5,so I think there may be something not quite right with your drill,but do check your drill bits,no machine will cope with blunt drill bits.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

But why would you step drill an 11.5mm hole?

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

Sorry this is a bit of a late follow up, but in the end I went on Neil’s advice and bought one of the Clarke drills (in this case the CDP452F from Machine Mart). After a few month of ownership I’m very happy with both the drill and the service from Machine Mart. I certainly don’t have any of the problems I showed in my opening video. Thanks for all the advice, it proved useful, and hopefully also useful to people reading this in the future!

David

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I acquired a Nutool DP16-12 very cheaply (assumed model number as I think it was the smallest of a family of similar drills)- it required the motor pulley be be bushed + re-drilled so it ran true otherwise the vibration made it useless – the table and column appear to be reasonably substantial but getting + keeping it trammed is somewhat of a pain – however the chuck according to documentation found on line should be a small JT taper but I can’t see any retaining LH screw inside the chuck nor can I remove the chuck which obviously is supposed to be removeable as the guard wont fit over it – any ideas – if nothing else the motor claims to be British made and looks useful

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

If the rest of the drill press is OK, quill has good fit, chuck good, motor good, etc. I'd try a reinforcing angled brace from front underside of table back and down to the column. If you face the brace with a block of brass or bronze next to the column you will avoid marking the column and still have excellent support. A vertical brace from end of angled brace up to the table rear underside would triangulate the assy and make it very stiff. As others have mentioned re the apparently rubber table I would also examine table and mount for cracks and fix those with epoxy and screwed strips or bronze welding etc. before bracing it.

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