I use to be a machinist in a track shop (railroad track) where I operated many machines. A large Cincinnati milling machine was just one I operated. I often thought about purchasing a milling machine. I had a friend who had a Bridgeport mill for sale once, but I didn't buy it. Then I thought about the mini mills that are for sale today, but once again I didn't buy one. Your idea about using a cross slide vise on a drill press is a very economical way to do some light milling which is probably enough for most people in their home workshop. Who knows, I might have to go out and buy a nice drill press and a cross slide vise even in my advanced years. For most of my life I have been making something, at the track shop I cut steel harden steel castings, even stainless. At home I had a wood working shop, and I've done auto body work for years. I say all this to give a warning. The heavy metal dust, sawdust, and even auto body filler dust have ruin my lungs, I now have pulmonary fibrosis. So the warning is ALWAYS WEAR A DUST MASK. It will save your life. Thanks for the video, I'm sure it will help many to get into some light milling.
Why have I been fighting with three drill press handles for so long??! I wish I could give this video 10 thumbs up! That dust collection bit was life-changing.
One stop shop channel of brilliance. Thanks for being out there brother. Everything that I’ve been thinking/imagining all of the possibilities that I can do with my newly acquired perfectly patinated 8” 1991 Craftsman Drill Press. Having a Father-in-law that’s been a machinist for over 60 years as my walking, talking encyclopedia as backup has given me a new found love for reshaping material. God Bless n God Bless 🇺🇸
Almost two years since you posted this - and this still a stand out fantastic video! I am shocked that there have not been a ton of content inspired by this! Fantastic channel - thanks for the great content.
Cut off carbide saw tooth bits are one of my cheap tricks. Mounted in the cross slide the results are surprisingly good. Plus you get 40 to 60 bits per used 10" saw blade
Those are some great tips! I especially like the straw and cup for cleaning debris from the cross slide screw. The keyless chuck is a really good idea and I need to get one too. Thanks for sharing these ideas.
Ok, a lot of content out there: One decent tip, dragged out into a 24 minute vid. This content: at least 8 hell-yeah , usable tips in 6 minutes. Left me wanting more.
I just bought a vintage cross slide vise at a yard sale for $20. I'm going to need to clean it but it was an awesome deal. I currently have a bench top drill press but I'm ordering a full-sized 20" drill press later this month. I'm looking at a Jet 1.5 HP model. These tips were quite helpful. I like the replacement chuck.
Mean Green awesome, glad you liked it. Don't forget to check out my Kickstarter campaign for the "Alfred" Backpack hanger kck.st/2Yi2Qnd thanks for your comment and support much appreciated.
As a 40 year journeyman tool & die maker I too have used this method at home. People need to be aware that a drill press chuck is only press fit into the spindle, and therefore, the side pressure of milling can and will eventually make your chuck fall out, or be corkscrewed into your workpiece. Be safe.
This press has worked like a charm for my projects ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxajoEbapTfqWaadnqb04h6U576yxXp-FE . I didn't even secure it to my table top, mainly due to the fact that I was using a 15 lbs drill vise. It's not flimsy at all as to what others have claimed it to be. Make sure the locking nuts and levers are secured and there won't be any issues with light pressure and patience. I was able to drill through aluminum, plastic, and steel (steel took a while) with no problems at all. Yeah it took a little longer than a regular drill press, but I don't have the space OR the money for one.The instruction manual was worthless, but luckily assembling the press was intuitive. However, the manual would be good for ordering replacement parts if needed. There is a nice breakdown of the parts that are included in the kit. Before ordering, make sure it is compatible with your unit, it is clearly stated what models the press is compatible with.This was an excellent purchase for $40!!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!! This is so cool! I have one of these drill presses & just inherited another HF one, like the one you have, & decided to have one for woodworking & the other for metal work. Never really thought about nor had a thought about milling, as mills are big & expensive, until I watched your video. THANKS! I also just subscribed as you come up with ideas for the common person. Great video!
Great ideas! 👍👍 Question! Now that it's been about 5 years since this video came out, how are the bearings on the drill press doing? Have you had any decrease in performance or had to replace anything, or is it all still working fine?
I'm a machinist. Great tips for the hobbyist. Although I cringe seeing you use a drill chuck with endmills. LOL But, for the light work being done, it works.
great vid. I'm a retired machinist and have a story you might like. I took one of these vices once out to a customer who had a rotating shaft that needed to machine a little off the end to adapt a new piece on the end. so i made a little platform that clamped to the machine and had him crank it up and I was able to do the job without them having to remove the shaft. it would have been a massive job to take the part out and would have cost them many thousands to do it that way. all I got was a pat on the back and the feeling of accomplishment. no free dinner or nuthin! typical
So happy to have finally found your channel! Where have you been hiding, anyway? No joke: I’ve wanted to be you “when I grow up” for a good 25 years or so by now. 🤓 I’m a hobbyist maker, but I strive to find methods as clean, precise, and complete as yours... I can only dream of what it must be like to be as capable and skilled as you clearly are... You’ve got a new subscriber, moreover, a humongous new fan.
hey man great starter vid you have me excited about my drill press and milling ,theres no way i can afford a milling machine and for basic stuff this should get me going ,thanks
Liked the fact that you noted you're using tools from Harbor Freight. Also that you were honest about the quality of some of the tools. Was really interested in the keyless chuck, I'm considering the same thing. A video on how you determined what chuck would fit your machine and a source for the chuck would be interesting.
I have not checked all of the comments so the answer may be there. However you failed to mention how to keep the MT chuck adapter held firmly attached to the spindle under the side loads encountered when milling. The MT taper is great for drilling as all loads are axial so the taper keeps the chuck adapter solidly located into the female MT taper of the spindle. However when side loads and vibration are encountered as when using an end mill the radial loads imposed to the MT taper will allow it to rattle out unless a drawbar is used. No mention of how this was accomplished.
Love the tip about removing the two handles. In about 10 minutes I’m heading to my garage and taking those suckers off. I also saw in another video where the guy puts golf balls on the end of the arms, which I’m also going to do since ny harbor freight drill press
Brilliant video thank you. I was lucky enough to buy an old Whitecote drill press from the 1970's - it came with the slide vice (I didn't know what it was called until seeing your video) and a massive haul of big and little morse taper and straight-shank drills - all for £40 ! Re-wired it with a new starter, and it's so heavy there's no vibration at all, even with large drills. Finished making a precision 9BA needle pin screw for a 1930's phonograph with this setup. I will buy some of the tools you suggested, I did not even know these existed.
5y late but I must tip my hat to you sir. Badass on every level, even the music selection was banger. And your tips are solid. If that seems like a pun, maybe it should be 😂 🎩👌🏼
I tried this years ago but soon found the job too heavy for such a set up. Drill press use ball bearings set up for thrust loaded, milling machines use tapered roller bearings (Timken) and can take side loads. The channels ideas are OK for very light mill jobs. BTW, a keyless chuck is a great investment for a drill press.
Eric, my tip is to get some button magnets and place them onto the speed change cover, then I place my selection of centre drills, chuck key, countersink drills etc. They are always at hand and are kept out of the way when finished with. :-))
Using a magnet to hold your bits makes them magnetic as well, even when taken away from the strip or tray. Which means that ferrous metal chips cling to them. Sometimes tenaciously. The bits can have a beard of filings that shift but wont easily wipe off. This interferes with cutting, wears out the tool and produces poor quality holes, scoring or embeds metal especially in soft material. You can degauss them, but that's just another step.
I'm just getting started in trying to use my Drill press for rudimentary Micro Lathe Work & some Milling. This video has been the perfect enlightenment I needed right now.
You really aught to get some lathe tool holders though if you're going to be turning (machining with a lathe) I saw that he used a chisel which can work but seeing the endmill kinda made me cringe. Lathe tool holders are generally flat on four sides so they clamp well. You can get cheep sets for as little as 15 bucks but having five or six different holders that take carbide inserts is a much better option, in my opinion.(check banggood.com 30 to $40) 10 to $15 at harbor freight can also buy you the ability to sharpen carbide when it chips, using diamond. Or, use the search term "DMT Diamond Pocket Whetstone Tool" (14 bucks for each grit though). High speed steel isn't a bad option either if you're only turning mild steel, aluminum & softer materials. I was thinking of doing a video on converting a drill press into a mill but then my friend found me a beat-up, rusted Smithy 1220xl for $200 so I rebuilt that. I was lucky though, the gearbox was fine so I just added oil. Rebuilding the rest took around 80 hours. Still, with some fairly simple modifications, & around $200 you can turn a drill press into a decent, half-assed mill. There's more videos to find on the subject. Tapered roller bearings for the spindle & the addition of a draw-bar being very important but just adding a small, rectangular piece of brass into that little channel on the side of the quill , where that little screw goes for stopping the quill from moving is a simple & fast way to reduce vibration & run-out considerably. ooops! 11 months ago... maybe I'm too late. Good luck, regardless.
@@davidwillard7334 are you asking me the total cost of turning a drill press into a mill? If that's it, I bet you could do it for $200 but you may need access to a mill or lathe to modify a few things because you want tapered roller bearings & a drawbar. I sometimes forget that I went to school for this stuff & watched probably several hundreds of hours of videos in the last 4 years on every machining subject I could find. Without that knowledge it's probably frustrating to figure out, like if you're a beginning hobbyist. I'm starting to remind myself of a friend of mine a little bit. His answer to everything is "Oh, that's easy, all you gotta do is...".
I’m a machinist and a good machinist will make do with what they have. Used many drill presses with a add on cross slide vise. One axis is enough to get by.
If you’re going to use a drill press the last thing you want to use is a Harbor Freight press or any press with a Morse taper! Get an old Craftsman ore equivalent with a fixed Chuck that can’t drop out from side pressure or radial loads!
You just saved me so much time and trips to the looney bin from beating my head against the wall. Some things were so obvious but your already in too deep and thinking way to complicated about something so simple. I've always wanted to learn your trade and just be able to make anything from anything or scratch shall I say. I need to come apprentice under you for a few years in a few years when my youngest (last nester) is done with high school and off to explore the world. Maybe we will both come apprentice you never know with this one.
I use to be a machinist in a track shop (railroad track) where I operated many machines. A large Cincinnati milling machine was just one I operated. I often thought about purchasing a milling machine. I had a friend who had a Bridgeport mill for sale once, but I didn't buy it. Then I thought about the mini mills that are for sale today, but once again I didn't buy one.
Your idea about using a cross slide vise on a drill press is a very economical way to do some light milling which is probably enough for most people in their home workshop. Who knows, I might have to go out and buy a nice drill press and a cross slide vise even in my advanced years.
For most of my life I have been making something, at the track shop I cut steel harden steel castings, even stainless. At home I had a wood working shop, and I've done auto body work for years. I say all this to give a warning. The heavy metal dust, sawdust, and even auto body filler dust have ruin my lungs, I now have pulmonary fibrosis. So the warning is ALWAYS WEAR A DUST MASK. It will save your life.
Thanks for the video, I'm sure it will help many to get into some light milling.
Best of luck
Thanks for rocking the old school Robert Miles. Brings me back to a warehouse party somwhere in 1998...
Why have I been fighting with three drill press handles for so long??! I wish I could give this video 10 thumbs up! That dust collection bit was life-changing.
Cool
One stop shop channel of brilliance.
Thanks for being out there brother.
Everything that I’ve been thinking/imagining all of the possibilities that I can do with my newly acquired perfectly patinated 8” 1991 Craftsman Drill Press.
Having a Father-in-law that’s been a machinist for over 60 years as my walking, talking encyclopedia as backup has given me a new found love for reshaping material.
God Bless n
God Bless 🇺🇸
Almost two years since you posted this - and this still a stand out fantastic video!
I am shocked that there have not been a ton of content inspired by this!
Fantastic channel - thanks for the great content.
Yup, I would agree with that
Cut off carbide saw tooth bits are one of my cheap tricks. Mounted in the cross slide the results are surprisingly good. Plus you get 40 to 60 bits per used 10" saw blade
Those are some great tips! I especially like the straw and cup for cleaning debris from the cross slide screw. The keyless chuck is a really good idea and I need to get one too. Thanks for sharing these ideas.
Ok, a lot of content out there: One decent tip, dragged out into a 24 minute vid. This content: at least 8 hell-yeah , usable tips in 6 minutes. Left me wanting more.
This was the video I was looking for. Cross Vice In the mail. Ty
dang, eric has bunch of new toys. Nice shop! Thanks mister.
Every single tip here is actually useful! Great vid!
Thanks for sharing these excellent tips, very useful information, keep up the good work.
Did you read my mind??? I was just thinking about getting a milling ttable and using my drill press. Thanks for the tips on how to get that going.
Your channel is both cool and inspirational for a scratch builder to be like me! Thanks a lot!
I just bought a vintage cross slide vise at a yard sale for $20. I'm going to need to clean it but it was an awesome deal. I currently have a bench top drill press but I'm ordering a full-sized 20" drill press later this month. I'm looking at a Jet 1.5 HP model. These tips were quite helpful. I like the replacement chuck.
Thanks! The cup/straw vacuum attachment was particularly sweet.
Your intro got me hooked. Well made and easy to understand vid. Thank you.
Mean Green awesome, glad you liked it. Don't forget to check out my Kickstarter campaign for the "Alfred" Backpack hanger kck.st/2Yi2Qnd thanks for your comment and support much appreciated.
Thanks Eric. I'm a 17 year old building my workshop at the moment and I appreciate all the useful tips.
Seth Gaston Me too, but mine is a corner of dad's workshop
It's been 3 yrs, how is the shop coming along?
This is what I was looking for. Thanks brother.
Good luck, be safe
Nice job Eric, I DO have a CNC mill and a lathe and I would say the video was still for me. Keep the videos coming, you do a great job
As a 40 year journeyman tool & die maker I too have used this method at home. People need to be aware that a drill press chuck is only press fit into the spindle, and therefore, the side pressure of milling can and will eventually make your chuck fall out, or be corkscrewed into your workpiece. Be safe.
i was going to say the exact same thing, he should have mentioned that first as someone will get hurt, a milling machine has a draw bar for a reason.
I learned that the hard way. A bit of loctite works well.
This press has worked like a charm for my projects ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxajoEbapTfqWaadnqb04h6U576yxXp-FE . I didn't even secure it to my table top, mainly due to the fact that I was using a 15 lbs drill vise. It's not flimsy at all as to what others have claimed it to be. Make sure the locking nuts and levers are secured and there won't be any issues with light pressure and patience. I was able to drill through aluminum, plastic, and steel (steel took a while) with no problems at all. Yeah it took a little longer than a regular drill press, but I don't have the space OR the money for one.The instruction manual was worthless, but luckily assembling the press was intuitive. However, the manual would be good for ordering replacement parts if needed. There is a nice breakdown of the parts that are included in the kit. Before ordering, make sure it is compatible with your unit, it is clearly stated what models the press is compatible with.This was an excellent purchase for $40!!
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!! This is so cool! I have one of these drill presses & just inherited another HF one, like the one you have, & decided to have one for woodworking & the other for metal work. Never really thought about nor had a thought about milling, as mills are big & expensive, until I watched your video. THANKS! I also just subscribed as you come up with ideas for the common person. Great video!
Thanks for your comment and support. Very much appreciated. Feel free to post on your favorite social media and share with the world. Thanks again 😊👍
Subbed! The cup/straw/vac was gold.
Awesome, thanks for the comment and support. Much appreciated. Feel free to share on social media that helps the channel. Rock on!
Love your channel. So much to learn and is a source of inspiration.
Great ideas! 👍👍
Question! Now that it's been about 5 years since this video came out, how are the bearings on the drill press doing? Have you had any decrease in performance or had to replace anything, or is it all still working fine?
Sir, you are tremendously talented!!! Thanks, Sir
New subscriber here and I can't wait to watch this. Thank you for broaching this subject!!
Enjoy and be safe
Thank you for a very helpful video. To keep a chuck key in one place use and old hard drive magnet mounted either on or close to the machine.
From Honduras in Central America thank for sharing
Rock on indeed sir. Love that you say that to!
Useful. Glad you kept the background "music" low. As a musician I hate how so many instructional videos have audio crap in the background.
Thanks, getting better at it.
Great video, Brother!
I'm a machinist. Great tips for the hobbyist. Although I cringe seeing you use a drill chuck with endmills. LOL But, for the light work being done, it works.
Absolutely fantastic for plastic and wood
Best on youtube for about 5 year now and this is the first I have given a thumbs up to, good advice and for the simple man, me knuckle dragger 🙈
Thanks, feel free to share on social media!
Thanks buddy!!!! You just taught me how to build GOBS of stuff for my shop trailer!!
Cool, be safe.
@@EricStrebel ALWAYS.
Very beautiful video, detailing is awesome, and your voice is really like teacher... Great. 👏 👏 👏
great vid. I'm a retired machinist and have a story you might like. I took one of these vices once out to a customer who had a rotating shaft that needed to machine a little off the end to adapt a new piece on the end. so i made a little platform that clamped to the machine and had him crank it up and I was able to do the job without them having to remove the shaft. it would have been a massive job to take the part out and would have cost them many thousands to do it that way. all I got was a pat on the back and the feeling of accomplishment. no free dinner or nuthin! typical
Too many ppl expect machinists to be magicians
I like the cup n straw tip. Especially for car detailing! Crazy that's the first time I've ever saw it unless you're the inventor? 👍💪🇺🇸💯
Thanks
This is the video I've been looking for. Thanks.
Cool! glad you liked it, feel free to share with the world on social media
As a machinist, I take big advantage of the compliance of certain tools. There is no such thing as a bad tool depending upon what you are doing!
Very
So happy to have finally found your channel! Where have you been hiding, anyway?
No joke: I’ve wanted to be you “when I grow up” for a good 25 years or so by now. 🤓 I’m a hobbyist maker, but I strive to find methods as clean, precise, and complete as yours... I can only dream of what it must be like to be as capable and skilled as you clearly are...
You’ve got a new subscriber, moreover, a humongous new fan.
Cool, feel free to share with the world on social media. Glad to have you as a subsriber
Great video. You have a nice setup
Great little video & great tips, thanks.
Good stuff Eric. I need to get myself a good keyless chuck and a milling vice. You sir, are a genius!
Ain't it convenient to have Lemmy always handy as an assistant!
Absolutely
Good job, love how clean you work
These were some really helpful tips!! Thank you for sharing this.
You're welcome
Fantastic video, getting ready to build a plane and this is exactly what I needed to see.
Awesome, feel free to share on social media
Do You Build ! Jack ! Planes !?
Really useful tips
Muy bueno!!! Gracias Eric!! ( desde Argentina)
You're most welcome, be safe
I enjoyed the video and found it very informative,and for light work,this will work just fine,thanks.
I was impressed by the Motorhead T-shirt !
Thanks, rock on!
Thank you, great help this video was.
THANKS, FOR SOME GOOD IDEAS!!!!
hey man great starter vid you have me excited about my drill press and milling ,theres no way i can afford a milling machine and for basic stuff this should get me going ,thanks
Very well thought out Sir.👏👏👌🇨🇦
Excellent - it gives me hope for a next project !
Awesome, well done. I'm tired of people commenting that milling with a drill press can't be done. This proves then wrong.
Sir you just saved me having to spending thousands of dollars, truly thank you
Thanks for the video. Just bought myself a drill press and needed a vice. I'll pay a little more and get a cross slide vice.
I own a cheap mil drill but your ideas are great for me too
Great video. Now I have a bunch of ideas that need actualizing!
I dig these kind of videos.
Great, thanks
Nice set up
Great content!
Liked the fact that you noted you're using tools from Harbor Freight. Also that you were honest about the quality of some of the tools. Was really interested in the keyless chuck, I'm considering the same thing. A video on how you determined what chuck would fit your machine and a source for the chuck would be interesting.
I believe that the truck is listed in the description or at least a link to the company that I got it from CMS I believe
Good video. Helpful tips. FWIW, I have 4 working drill preses; every one has just one arm for a handle. Really makes things easier.
I agree, thanks for the comment
I have not checked all of the comments so the answer may be there. However you failed to mention how to keep the MT chuck adapter held firmly attached to the spindle under the side loads encountered when milling. The MT taper is great for drilling as all loads are axial so the taper keeps the chuck adapter solidly located into the female MT taper of the spindle.
However when side loads and vibration are encountered as when using an end mill the radial loads imposed to the MT taper will allow it to rattle out unless a drawbar is used.
No mention of how this was accomplished.
Awesome tips thank you
Some good ideas 💡
Very important knowledges about machines,thank you sir for this video.
Some really good tips, thanks 👍👍👍
Fantastic, glad you like them.
Good Vid Bro..Your Voice is Soothing..Continue those vids & of course continue to ROCKMAN😎
Hi Eric, I put a magnet on the side of my drill case and put my chuck key and my metal peg for the tilt table. I won’t lose it now!
Dude thank you. I have great purposes for this. I appreciate this
Love the tip about removing the two handles. In about 10 minutes I’m heading to my garage and taking those suckers off. I also saw in another video where the guy puts golf balls on the end of the arms, which I’m also going to do since ny harbor freight drill press
As a retired Tool Room machinist this scares the literal crap out of me. In more ways than I can describe
Brilliant video thank you.
I was lucky enough to buy an old Whitecote drill press from the 1970's - it came with the slide vice (I didn't know what it was called until seeing your video) and a massive haul of big and little morse taper and straight-shank drills - all for £40 ! Re-wired it with a new starter, and it's so heavy there's no vibration at all, even with large drills.
Finished making a precision 9BA needle pin screw for a 1930's phonograph with this setup.
I will buy some of the tools you suggested, I did not even know these existed.
Awesome
5y late but I must tip my hat to you sir. Badass on every level, even the music selection was banger. And your tips are solid. If that seems like a pun, maybe it should be 😂
🎩👌🏼
Very cool vacuum trick mate
God that background music at the beginning, takes me back to the day where every video had darude sandstorm in it!!
Excellent ideas… subscribed🤠👍
Thankyou helped a lot with my mini bike built
I tried this years ago but soon found the job too heavy for such a set up. Drill press use ball bearings set up for thrust loaded, milling machines use tapered roller bearings (Timken) and can take side loads. The channels ideas are OK for very light mill jobs.
BTW, a keyless chuck is a great investment for a drill press.
Tapered rolled bearings could do the trick possibly
Excellent T-shirt dude 🤘🏼
Eric, my tip is to get some button magnets and place them onto the speed change cover, then I place my selection of centre drills, chuck key, countersink drills etc.
They are always at hand and are kept out of the way when finished with. :-))
Using a magnet to hold your bits makes them magnetic as well, even when taken away from the strip or tray. Which means that ferrous metal chips cling to them. Sometimes tenaciously. The bits can have a beard of filings that shift but wont easily wipe off. This interferes with cutting, wears out the tool and produces poor quality holes, scoring or embeds metal especially in soft material. You can degauss them, but that's just another step.
I'm just getting started in trying to use my Drill press for rudimentary Micro Lathe Work & some Milling. This video has been the perfect enlightenment I needed right now.
You really aught to get some lathe tool holders though if you're going to be turning (machining with a lathe) I saw that he used a chisel which can work but seeing the endmill kinda made me cringe. Lathe tool holders are generally flat on four sides so they clamp well. You can get cheep sets for as little as 15 bucks but having five or six different holders that take carbide inserts is a much better option, in my opinion.(check banggood.com 30 to $40) 10 to $15 at harbor freight can also buy you the ability to sharpen carbide when it chips, using diamond. Or, use the search term "DMT Diamond Pocket Whetstone Tool" (14 bucks for each grit though). High speed steel isn't a bad option either if you're only turning mild steel, aluminum & softer materials.
I was thinking of doing a video on converting a drill press into a mill but then my friend found me a beat-up, rusted Smithy 1220xl for $200 so I rebuilt that. I was lucky though, the gearbox was fine so I just added oil. Rebuilding the rest took around 80 hours. Still, with some fairly simple modifications, & around $200 you can turn a drill press into a decent, half-assed mill. There's more videos to find on the subject. Tapered roller bearings for the spindle & the addition of a draw-bar being very important but just adding a small, rectangular piece of brass into that little channel on the side of the quill , where that little screw goes for stopping the quill from moving is a simple & fast way to reduce vibration & run-out considerably.
ooops! 11 months ago... maybe I'm too late.
Good luck, regardless.
Thanks!
@@christurnblom4825 Total Cost !!??
@@davidwillard7334 are you asking me the total cost of turning a drill press into a mill? If that's it, I bet you could do it for $200 but you may need access to a mill or lathe to modify a few things because you want tapered roller bearings & a drawbar. I sometimes forget that I went to school for this stuff & watched probably several hundreds of hours of videos in the last 4 years on every machining subject I could find.
Without that knowledge it's probably frustrating to figure out, like if you're a beginning hobbyist. I'm starting to remind myself of a friend of mine a little bit. His answer to everything is "Oh, that's easy, all you gotta do is...".
Great ideas thanks man
Thanks for the tips .
I came here for the "a drill is not a milling machine, it was not designed to take radial loads" comments.
The old timers around here have been using their drill press as milling machines for over 40 years...
I’m a machinist and a good machinist will make do with what they have. Used many drill presses with a add on cross slide vise. One axis is enough to get by.
😂
Bumblebees aren't aerodynamic, and theoretically aren't supposed to fly, but...
;^)
If you’re going to use a drill press the last thing you want to use is a Harbor Freight press or any press with a Morse taper! Get an old Craftsman ore equivalent with a fixed Chuck that can’t drop out from side pressure or radial loads!
I got my first drill press today also from Harborfrieght. I plan to use it on my channel for my creations. Looking into those milling bits to.
Clean set up
Very useful, thanks, liked and subbed :)
You just saved me so much time and trips to the looney bin from beating my head against the wall. Some things were so obvious but your already in too deep and thinking way to complicated about something so simple. I've always wanted to learn your trade and just be able to make anything from anything or scratch shall I say. I need to come apprentice under you for a few years in a few years when my youngest (last nester) is done with high school and off to explore the world. Maybe we will both come apprentice you never know with this one.
Thanks for the trips.
You're welcome, be safe
Thumbs up for the Tips n Tricks & the Motorhead shirt
some really good tips, thank you
I subbed for the Motorhead jersey! Neat tips, I can use some of them.
Fantastic! Rock on
very usefull just need mill bits and a cross vise