Equipment/DrillPress

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Drill press
Drill press.jpg
Model Axminster ED16SB
Sub-category Fabrication
Status Good working order
Consumables oil, cutting fluid
Accessories Unknown
Training requirement No
Training link Unknown
ACnode No
Owner LHS
Origin Unknown
Location Basement, workshop

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

Pictures

The Hackspace drill press, from the front
The Hackspace drill press, from the side
The Hackspace drill press, from the other side

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