Funny you should ask...

As I write this, the fully opened chuck of my floor model drill press is
serving as a low pressure clamp squeezing down on a little wooden item I'm
gluing onto the top of a two foot tall wood part.

It was quicker than digging our the right sized bar clamp and adjusting
it, and SWMBO had just rung the dinner bell, so I had to think fast. G

I've used my drill press lots of times to spin a felt buffing wheel or a
wire brush mounted on a threaded arbor. I never push on them hard enough
to do any damage, and I've been doing that kind of stuff to my trusty
Craftsman drill press since I bought it new some 35 years ago.

Until I got a real router table I used my drill press a few times to rout
simple shapes and grooves along pieces of wood by clamping a wood fence to
the drill press table and spinning a router bit in the chuck at the
press's fastest speed..

Before anyone jumps on me, the chuck on my drill press is secured to the
spindle by a threaded collar, so I'm not in danger of experiencing the
"hand grenade" effect.

Jeff
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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone
to blame it on."



Ryan Wright wrote:

I could also title this thread, "Help me spend my money".

OK, so I'm just starting to get into metalworking, and my first two
purchases are a chop saw (bought it) and a drill press (still
looking).

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