On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:41:46 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , "Cyberosity!" wrote:

Can anyone out there sell me a Sears Portalign Tool.

Friends don't let friends buy Portaligns.

The company that
made them was out of San Diego, CA, but they are out of business now.

There's a good reason for that...

The Portalign tool is a prcision drill alignment tool for 3/8" drills.

I suppose it might be, if you have a *really* creative understanding of
"precision".

I bought one about 25 years ago because I got taken in by the same "precision
alignment" advertising hype. It's a piece of crap. You're *way* better off
buying a cheap drill press.




Hey, Doug....

while the portalign and it's clones are no substitute for a drill
press, they aren't without usefulness. there are lots of hole drilling
jobs where what is needed is slightly better accuracy than I can get
by hand and eye alone and/or enough repetitive layouts to do that
stops on the base make sense and/or workpieces that are too big to fit
in the drill press that the cheezy thing ends up being pretty useful.
that said, mine sits in a drawer most of the time.

and for the OP, try ebay.
Bridger