Ignoramus10622 wrote:

A company gave me this drill press.

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Allen-Drill-Press.jpg

I will actually use it instead of scrapping, and my question is, is it
better to use soluble coolant, or cutting oil on it.
For general purpose drilling of a few small holes in typical materials,
brushing on a little cutting oil each hole makes the least mess.

For really serious drilling of large holes in tough materials, then flood
coolant will make sense. So, it totally depends on what you will use it
for.

Jon