You can get them pretty cheap, but some of them are pretty sloppy.
Some have locking gibs and that is a nice feature.
Personally, I'd look at it as a long term investment and go for an
X-Y table with tee slots so I could either put a vise on it or use the
tee slots to hold things down.
On my 15" Craftsman floor model drill press, I have a 40 year old
(bought it new) Craftsman/Atlas X-Y table that also rotates. I have 3
different size vises that I bolt onto the table for various jobs. I
even have a wooden table (6" of 2X4 that clamps into the vise with a 10"
square of plywood screwed to it that I use real often. Using that table
gives me a surface that I can drill into and I don't have to remove the
X-Y table.
Also, I'd go for the biggest table I could afford.

Palmgren is a good name.

Pete Stanaitis
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Alex wrote:
I am on the market to buy a cross slide table or vise for my drill press.
I won't be doing any milling on it.
Can you recommend me any particular xy vise or xy table plus regular vise?

My budget is $100

Thanks,
Alex