I'm looking for a standard to suggest to customers looking to tap multiple
holes at once with a drill press.

Grizzly used to make the G0521 self-reversing drill press for rigid tapping
without the use of a tapping head.

Ellis makes the 2400 which is essentially the same exact machine with MUCH
better motor controls, etc.

I could and sometimes do suggest a Bridgeport to folks but that requires a
manual flip of the rotation and is risky, etc.

So, given the scenario of a customer looking to inexpensively mount a
multiple spindle head on a drill press that will reverse all by itself when
it hits a certain depth, does anyone know of a machine that will accomplish
this?

The G0521 was around $1300 and had a "V" machined into the quill which
stabilized the multiple spindle head that would be clamped to it... It was
a great, semi-low cost solution for a production drilling / tapping
operation. The Ellis is great, but a bit costly and I simply don't like the
Bridgeport answer.

We currently make a set-up that uses a Tapmatic head and the multiple
spindle head, but it is a bit bulky for some applications and I'd love to
simplify the design.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Joe Agro, Jr.
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