Hi Dale, I have that vise and it didn't really help me for a similar project. I had to drill a lot of shelf pin holes and found that it did not really help me for that project. I made a drilling jig out of a scrap piece of oak. I set a fence on the drill press table and then drilled a 1/4" hole every 1 1/2" along that board about 10" long. I then clamped it to my shelf and with a hand drill used the jig to drill the first few holes. I then used another drill bit as a locking pin. I inverted it into the jig's top hole and into the last shelf drilled hole. I was then able to drill a few more holes. by moving the jig down I drilled 2 rows of holes on each of 2 4' shelf sides. Lenny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:32 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Drill presses
While on the subject, does anyone have a sliding X Y vise accessory for their drill press? A couple of days ago I began drilling a sequence of holes for the bit storage drawers of my router station. The quarter inch shank used three rows of 12 holes, so did the half inch shank but the middle row was offset by three quarters of an inch to allow for larger diameter bits. The question became how do I efficiently align and drill these holes, six trays of 36 holes each. In the end I clamped a stick as a stop on my little router table with a quarter inch straight cutting bit just touching the stop and ripped a stick of three quarters inch fairly straight strapping in half then using my trusty set-up blocks from Lee Valley made the first cut an inch and a half along the edge pushing the stick into the bit with the miter gauge. The second cut was easy using the 3 inch block from the end and after that I continued using the 3 inch block to space from the far edge of each cut skipping one so that I have now a stick with quarter inch cuts into it at inch and a half centers. Because these cuts are only the depth of the thickness of the router bit it is fairly easy to center the stick on the work to be cut or to align it along any distance from an edge and if I should need more than are on the stick it is easy to register by slipping a bit or two into already drilled holes and aligning the notches to continue. As I am making three of each type of tray I just placed three trays ganged like a sandwich and shot two two inch nails into one end to keep them together and aligned then located my jig stick and pinned it into place then, at the drill press it was a fairly simple matter to just slide the stack along until I felt the drill slide into the notch then drive it through, retract it and slide it along until it settled into the next groove and repeat the 12 holes I needed. I pulled the stick off, relocated it the required distance to first one edge then later to the other edge and repeated the process until all 36 holes were bored. I did a similar thing for the half inch holes except that I offset the center row by measuring the stick in three quarters of an inch from the end on that row and again drilled with a quarter inch bit later going back with the larger 17/32nd bit. Although it took a while to cut the jig, once done I was able to go just about as fast as a sighted driller who would probably have measured out the lines with a gauge then walked off the spacing with a pair of dividers. I am keeping the jig, seems to me that inch and a half spacing might come in handy again some day. I have used pegboard in the past as a template but centering the bit in the hole isn't quite so accurate and not very satisfying unless turning off the press between each hole. I do have a foot switch now connected to my press which is also very handy when I don't forget and switch the thing off by hand. My next modification I am considering is to mount a slow speed reversible motor to the crank lift mechanism for the table for easier and more convenient table height adjustment. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Drill presses > Hi All, > As Dale mentioned there are two types bench tops and floor models. > Because of limited space I created a drilling station. I have a Grizzly 12 > speed bench top with a 3/4 hp motor. I purchased a Craftsman 5 drawer > heavy > cabinet. > I mounted the drill press on this cabinet to create a work station. In the > drawers I store all drilling accessories plus all of my measuring tools. > In > the bottom drawer I store many c clamps etc. > It gave me much extra storage and all drilling items are at one convenient > place. > One thing with the multiple speed press is that you can do some unique > things plus save your bits. > I made a lamp out of a Yuengling Beer bottle using 175 rpm with a glass > cutting bit. And a machinist friend told me that he normally does not > use > speeds greater than 350 rpm this helps to keep the bit from heating up and > dulling. > > I have drum sanders and various hole cutting attachments. > Next to my table saw it is probably my favorite tool. > Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dale Leavens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:17 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Drill presses > > > Good evening Listers, > Drill Press > > Also known as, pillar drill, drill press is popular for its accurate > drilling of holes at correct depth, and its power. You can buy your own > drill press > if you would like to setup a small workshop or complete the work in your > house using which you can bore holes at any angles without the worry of > drill > bit breaking or about the hole being out of shape. You can use the drill > press as spindle sander, mortise machine or a pocket hole machine when you > fit > appropriate attachments with it. The basic models of drill presses are > Bench-top drill presses and Floor-model drill presses. > > You can enjoy the comfort working with the bench-top drill presses as they > can be fit or mount on a table to work with. For home-based small jobs, it > would > be an apt choice for its compact size; however, they come with less > attachments and less capacity motors. The floor-model drill presses make > an > excellent > choice for bigger jobs at the commercial workshops. Moreover, you get lot > of > attachments and accessories along with powerful motors. Whichever drill > press > you opt for, you should remember to check for different criteria like > Horsepower or hp, size or center of the drilling capacity, variable > speeds, > quill > travel, Depth-stops, table, drill bits, and so on. > > The motors with the ranges ΒΌ to one Horsepower, the maximum power are > available. The higher the horsepower, the tougher material it can bore > holes > into. > The distance from the center of the chuck to the column determines the > center drilling capacity, and twice the distance from the center of the > chuck to > the column is the size. For example, you can bore a hole of 16" diameter > circle with a 16" drill press or 8" hole from the edge of a straight > board. > Five > to twelve speed settings are available for the drill presses, of which the > drill press with the speed of twelve is more versatile. The speed allows > you > to drill holes of different sizes through various materials, without any > problem to the material on which it is being used or the drill bit. > > Another important feature is table, which has the flexibility to move up > and > down the column to which it is fitted. Moreover, you can even turn it to > around > in the angle of 360 degrees so that it can bore holes into odd shaped > objects. You can get large tilting tables with fences that have better > capabilities. > To determine the depth of the holes that a drill press can bore, quill > travel is used. To bore deeper holes, you need greater quill travels. To > get > more > accurate boring, you can use a drill press with more precise depth stops > that allow you to bore holes repetitively at the same place or to bore > dowel > holes. > Fences, mortising attachments, sanding drums, and planer heads are > different > attachments or accessories that you would be able to get with the drill > press. > The drill bits are of different types like steel bits, high-speed steel > bits, Titanium coated bits, carbide-tipped bits, and cobalt bits. > > bosstoolsupply.com > > > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! 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