If you are like me, your workshop might be a mess from time to time. You are working on more than one project and your power tools from each might not be put away. Your bits are out of their cases and the scrap wood and other material that you can’t bring yourself to throw out is on the floor or stacked in a poor manner...
Here is a handy way to keep all of your drill press accessories right at your fingertips. The two tiers of the drill rack revolve independently of each other for easy selection of the bit or drill you want, and the whole rack will swing around the drill press column.
A recent project called for drilling a row of very acurrately spaced holes. To do this easily on the drill press, I came up with a simple indexing system.
A recent project called for drilling a row of very acurrately spaced holes. To do this easily on the drill press, I came up with a simple indexing system. As you can see in the drawing, my system consists of a short fence and a series of U-shaped stop blocks sized to fit over it...
As any drill press user knows, trying to clamp a workpiece directly to the cast iron table can be trying. The reinforcing ribs on the underside of the table can sometimes make positioning and tightening a clamp nearly impossible...
