On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:35:46 -0700 (PDT), Searcher7
wrote:
On Mar 18, 8:33*pm, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02:58 -0700 (PDT),Searcher7
wrote:

Is it plausible to have a full sized drill press in an apartment?

* If you can fit it in through the doorway, and it isn't expressly
forbidden by the rental agreement language, quite plausible.

From what you are saying, a floor model in an apartmetn is not going
to work.

Perhaps I should just concentrate on getting a *better* benchtop drill
press.

Never said that at all - If you buy a floor model and a benchtop
model drill press that have identical motors and heads on them (the
only difference being the column length and minor details in the work
table and base), and you do identical work with them, the noise
profiles should also be identical.

If you don't do large work where you have to use the floor model to
get the table low enough to get the workpiece under the spindle, I'd
go for a GOOD table-top model. They do exist. But if the items are
large, go ahead and get a floor model - your call.

The only difference would be in the bench that the benchtop model is
mounted upon - the bench itself can add mass and damping that can cut
down on the mechanical noise coupling through the legs and to the
floor if you design it that way.

You could build a pallet sized platform under the floor-mount drill
press to decouple the vibrations, but it would make a raised platform
to step up onto. Over, and over, and over...

And you can make a concrete topped work table to mount the bench-top
unit on and damp the noise - but if you do anything heavy like ma
layer of concrete or bricks, check the floor loading first.

Either way you might have to lay some timbers on the floor to spread
out the leg loading across several floor joists. You do NOT want the
end results to look like that old Goofy short on fitness, where the
downstairs unit suddenly gets a new skylight in their front bedroom...

Waaaa-ha-ha-hooooieeeeeee!!! ;-)

-- Bruce --