A new kind of Drill Press

Jeez my 3" pipe is at the back of my DP table, yours goes through the middle of the table???

Reply to
Leon
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Hey if you are happy, it is good enough.

Reply to
Leon

Maybe his DP only has an 8" swing. ;-)

Reply to
krw

Not completely happy. I listed the two things my DP doesn't have that would make me happier, although not $1500 happier. One is bench top model, and the other is easier table lifting mechanism.

Reply to
Jack

Jeez if I built a cabinet around my drill press most likely the pipe would be centered in the cabinet.

Reply to
Jack

Jack, why not make lifting and lowering your table easier by counterbalancing the table. Just drill throught the pole just under the head , mount a garage door pulley about $6 from the borg, then use some steel cable and attach to the table, use weights ((for lifting) or make your own )to counter balance the weight of the table.

Reply to
woodchucker

Why? Like Leon, I'd put the post at the rear (unless the cabinet was much deeper than the DP). There is no reason to spin the head around and drill in the rear of the cabinet.

Reply to
krw

Wasn't one of your original dislikes the amount of floor space your DP takes up?

Wouldn't it take up even more space if you centered the pipe in a cabinet?

Reply to
DerbyDad03

You did read the "slide it in [on casters] by leaving a hollow for the drill press post/stand", right?

Reply to
Scott Lurndal

I was talking about the quality of finish left by a segmented spiral cutter. :~)

Reply to
Leon

Yes the post is in the rear dumb ass. If I built a cabinet around it, the post would be centered right to left, not front to back in the cabinet.

Reply to
Jack

I wouldn't center the pipe in the cabinet because I wouldn't be the one building a cabinet around my drill press. I would build a cabinet as I liked, full of drawers to store stuff. I would then place a Bench top DP on top of the cabinet. So then, I would have a cabinet and a drill press where I now have a drill press only.

I could build a cabinet on legs, stick it in front of my drill press, which would be about 14 inches off the wall, making the cabinet stick way out in the room, or, build it so shallow, it would be stupid. Also, I could build a standard cabinet with a 14" hollow cut out for the post, which would be even more stupid.

If I really cared that much about space, I would have sold my drill press and bought a bench top model. I don't care that much, actually not at all as my wood working days are nearing its end. I simply mentioned what I personally would like in a drill press. the Nova offers expensive features I personally never longed for, and if they don't offer a bench top model, I wouldn't buy it with your money.

Those starting out, with limited shop space and w/o an oil well in their back yard, might mull over. Those with unlimited shop space, and an oil well in there back yard can run out and buy a Nova. I'd bet there are plenty of other, even more expensive drill presses that they could buy. Just think what great furniture, or domino's they could build then...

Reply to
Jack

So was I. I call BS to those saying the finish left by a segmented spiral cutters leave a less smooth finish than a non segmented cutter. It just ain't so in real life, if anything, it's exactly the opposite.

Reply to
Jack

Well that's obvious. Most people are smart enough to save words for something more meaningful.

Reply to
krw

Exactly!

Reply to
Jack

..and yet you used 274 words to explain to me how you would build a cabinet for an imaginary bench top drill press and how you don't really care about floor space after originally saying "the floor model takes up valuable floor space."

You sure could have saved some words there.

Reply to
DerbyDad03

I'm not the one worried about running out of words. And I didn't ask anyone about how to build a cabinet around my drill press. The dumb ass pontificates about the post being in the back of the drill press (DUH) so I have to "waste words" explaining to the dumb ass that the post is centered left to right, not front to back (another DUH) then the idiot chastises me for explaining it to him. He is a simpleton, plain and simple.

As for you wasting your time counting my words, I already "wasted words" explaining my thoughts were not for the geniuses in this group to explain to me what I needed to do, but to give my opinions on what I would look for in a drill press based on my considerable experience. I have not a problem with people making suggestions I didn't ask for, since it provides a platform for everyone to learn.

I gave reasons for my opinions, such as I rarely to never had a need for a floor model drill press, and a bench top could sit on top of a useful cabinet, things a newbie might want to consider.

You of course wasted words explaining to me some nonsense about wasting space building a cabinet around a drill press. Sure hope you don't run out of words because of that wasted effort.

Reply to
Jack

If you would write clearly, there wouldn't be any misunderstanding. More words doesn't equate to better writing.

...and the wasted words keep coming.

..and coming.

Eveready words.

Reply to
krw

If you learned how to read and comprehend, I wouldn't need to "waste" words explaining the obvious to the likes of you.

Reply to
Jack

Why gawd invented the Bozo bin ...

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Swingman

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