drill press

[indiana_jones]

hi everyone, i hope you are all doing fine. i have a question, first of all i have a floor , full size drill press, and for some time now i have been wanting something smaller to drill the many holes , we need for scroll saw work. i know they make bench top drill press but they all have the same huge motor, and top. so do they make a hobby size drill press?

i know they make a drill press that you can mount a drill in, but before i buy that i want to make sure there is not something better.

thanks

[blame]

what about a dremel with the plunge router base? i read somewhere where somebody was doing that i my self just use my 18 volt cordless drill

 

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[Travis]

I'd recommend the Dremel plunge router as well. Problem with benchtop drill presses is the throat capacity is a bit short. With the Dremel plunge router, you won't have to worry about that at all. Plus you can use your Dremel for a multitude of other purposes, which is always nice. But I got away for the longest time with a cheap $16 corded hand drill. Works just fine, assuming you don't need exactly square holes, which was the majority of my projects (I tend to do portrait style cuttings). Hope this helps!

[joleet]

Travis and blame is right on with thier suggestion. I have a radial arm Craftsman drill press which is terrific for very large items but wanted something more portable so I took the suggestion of a member and bought a plunge router for my Dremel and havent gone back to the drill press since. The bests thing is the portability of it, I can take it anywhere, closer to good lighting, tall bench, sit down bench, etc.. The only thing that I have found is that if you need to change bit sizes quite often, it is a little more of a pain to change them, so I try to plan my drilling so not to change as much. Ron T.