"SonomaProducts.com" wrote in message
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Great "tip" on the adding a bigger plywood base to avoid the tipping
issue.

I watched craigslist for a long time trying to get a 1hp drill press
with the biggest base possible. I felt pretty lucky finding a 20"
Crapsman that had a brand new 1hp motor for $100. Unfortunately the
fricking shaft has some hellacious run out. I suppose the same guy who
fried the motor tweaked the shaft. Oh well, OK for $100. However, I
cringe everytime I walk by the thing and actually tucked it in between
to heavier machines as a "fall back" for when it tips over. I was
thinking I would wedge anchor it down. The engineering of such a small
base seems really stupid. Plywood to the rescue. Smart!
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Another trick we used ws to install some kind of hardware on the forward
edge of the plywood. Several things will work. We used everything from an
eyebolt to a swivel D ring. We would put some rope through it and pull
everytime we needed to move the drill press. To move it back or sideways,
we just grabbed the support post. But this was often impossible to move it
out from the wall. That is why we added the rope thingy to the front of the
plywood.