Homemade Drill Press

My Jennyless weekend. A drill press for $25 and some scrap wood!

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[NeyJerk]

How do you ensure that it's perfectly level for 90° holes?

[kofimarc]

@NeyJerk I leveled the slides on the wall, cut the bracket perfectly square, and carefully drilled the hole that accepts the drill. This hole is not round - it is relieved in three places (sort of clover shaped) which allows a precise and repeatable fit.

[mrfnk]

you need safety glasses.

[kofimarc]

@mrfnk Good point! My mistake. I do wear them when working - need to remember that they are just as important when recording videos!

[deezynar]

Hey, great idea. I've been thinking about making something like that. The advantage of a unit like yours is that it has a far longer stroke than any store bought DP. I make mortises in timbers at times, and a standard DP can't hack it.

I want to mount mine on a plywood disk mounted on the wall. The disk will allow the whole slide unit to pivot for angled holes.

[kofimarc]

@deezynar Yep - 24" stroke on this one, though I can't imagine you'd ever need quite that much. And it does develop a little play when the slides approach full extension.

[cadaveramatore]

Gracias por compartir y demostrar que no tener dinero no quiere decir que no se tenga la inteligencia para crear. Muchas gracias me a sido de mucha ayuda

Thanks for sharing and show that not having money does not mean you do not have the intelligence to create. Thank you very much to me was very helpful

Sorry for my inglish i use the traslate

C:-

[king4george]

very good. i just want to make a same one and try to get some idea here. thanks.

[sydfloydpink]

thats one way to get your self in the emergency room 

[edcaddict]

Great , I like that !

[Thekrega]

This is an awesome idea. I would love to see a more detailed vid with the drill removed. And I am also curious about how you keep the platform from coming away from the wall.

[stitch14505]

ingenioso. como sugerencia. en ves de calzar los sujetadores con madera podrías ponerle un tornillo que les de altura a cada sujetador

[xOrhan1976]

Hi Marc, i really appreciated your creativity, i could say that is a victory against impossibilities.

[clintonearlwalker]

Nice vid and that may be all the drill press you need. However, I would recommend getting a small table top drill press, they are not that expensive. Look on Craigslist, you might even find one for free. For drilling steel, they come in handy. I traded our table top model to my brother in law for a pretty large floor model. It's pretty old, but It will drill through anything. Good luck.

[luizneiva]

parabéns!!!

[bloodynuts2]

lol i love the safety hint theres always one of them on every vid ..gets sadder by the day . asif =you got to answer to the great one in the sky..