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wrote:
Most of those are inherently a waste of money unless you ALWAYS use
the exact same length of drill bit in all the bits you have/use. If
the length differs, then you gotta re-adjust/re-calibrate the laser

I believe that a drill press laser guide could be quite cost effective
in certain situations/applications. I've never used one, so I don't
know how difficult it is to recalibrate. (Also, unless you bottom out
your bits you might want to readjust the laser each time you put a bit
in the chuck.

There ARE laser alinement devices for around $60 that chuck into the
drill press and give you fairly accurate indication of where on the
workpiece the drill will go, but those need to be chucked up every
time you want to drill a hole, and then once aligned you unchuck the
laster and chuck up the drill bit. Not real convenient nor will it
speed up your drilling, BUT it WILL increase the accuracy of the
drilling

Wow. I can't imagine many situations where that would be of use in a
woodworking shop. Perhaps for large forstner bits?

JP

John

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:39:01 -0600, "mywebaccts (at) PLUGcomcast.net"
"mywebaccts (at) PLUGcomcast.net" wrote:

I noticed that some drill presses come equipped with laser guides. Is
this something that you can buy as an attachment to most drill presses?

Jack