Equipment/DrillPress

Drill press

Status

We now have a drill press. The keyless chuck only goes down to 2.7 mm, so we need to get a "pin chuck". Russsss found one at the Crystal Palace workshop apparently, but I don't know where it is.

Or you can use the Dremel and mini-mill for high speed / light duty / precision stuff, and this one for everything else.

Ideal jobs :

Dremel

• High speed, tiny bits e.g. PCB drilling

Mini-Mill

• Milling plastic, small aluminium etc.
• Drilling jobs requiring accurate positioning - use the table positioning

Drill Press

• Most general purpose drilling jobs

Model

• Make: Axminster
• Model: ED16SB
• Manual: on the Axminster website

Log

1. <lovelace_> The chuck for the new stand drill falls out easily
2. <lovelace_> I can't see how it tightens up
3. <artag> it should be a taper. Assuming it's clean (not got anticorrosion varnish on it) then it should want a good fast whack up into the quill. Not with a hammer - just push it fast, by hand. Use the momentmum of the chuck to get it in hard.
4. <artag> if there's a screw thread in the end of the taper thrn it can use a drawbar like the 3-in-1 but that's fairly unlikely
5. <creature> Your mum enjoys a good fast whack up into the quill.
6. <lovelace_> K, seems firmly in now
7. <Randomskk> that's what she said