This press has worked like a charm for my projects ruclips.net/user/postUgkxajoEbapTfqWaadnqb04h6U576yxXp-FE . I didn't even secure it to my table top, mainly due to the fact that I was using a 15 lbs drill vise. It's not flimsy at all as to what others have claimed it to be. Make sure the locking nuts and levers are secured and there won't be any issues with light pressure and patience. I was able to drill through aluminum, plastic, and steel (steel took a while) with no problems at all. Yeah it took a little longer than a regular drill press, but I don't have the space OR the money for one.The instruction manual was worthless, but luckily assembling the press was intuitive. However, the manual would be good for ordering replacement parts if needed. There is a nice breakdown of the parts that are included in the kit. Before ordering, make sure it is compatible with your unit, it is clearly stated what models the press is compatible with.This was an excellent purchase for $40!!
Great build, I have built something very similar. The only problem I encountered was screwing the T track into MDF. It eventually pulls out after use do to clamping pressure. Better off drilling right through MDF and using machine screws bolted on the underside.
Another plus of the store bought fence is that you can turn it flat to use as a low profile fence for smaller stock where the chuck would hit the fence.
I dig it. Jonathan Katz Moses makes probably the best stop block around. Figured since you used his table as a base, pimping his stop block is a fair compromise. 😁🤟
Holy cow, that Laguna table saw was spewing some serious dust. Love your approach to these videos. The easy switch from woodworking to metalworking for a drill press is key. Glad you underscore that.
Very good design. Not too bulky or obtuse. I would add one last thing... Extendable side wings, I like Shop Smith's that slide out on square aluminum bars. Sometimes you need that extra distance when drilling out waste for table legs. But even hinged extensions could work also.
Awesome build. And you’re way better than the Sham Wow guy ever dreamed of being! If RUclips doesn’t work out, you could have a great future in infomercials!
I found multiple mistakes in the directions I paid for. It didn't keep me from building it correctly, but it required extra time to figure out what the directions should have said. I am happy with final results.
Great video. I liked everything up to the point of paint. I must say, you have far more confidence in your plans then I do. Doing all the cuts for the entire project in advance takes guts and confidence you may not want to modify it.
Cool build! One of the things I'd like to see is how to quickly and accurately keep the table perpendicular to the drill itself. My table always rotates along the post as I raise/lower it.
If you never have need to shift the table left and right based on the kind of work you do with the drill press, the solution is simple: drill 3/16" hole in the top and the bottom of the toothed rack on the vertical pillar and install a screw into the pillar. That keeps the center of the table perfectly aligned with the quill's axis as you raise or lower the table.
I know it would be more expensive to make it out of aluminum extrusion, but have you looked into the product below? At 10mm or about .4 inches it could make a nice drill press table and add a wooden top. McMaster-CARR Miniature T-Slotted Framing and Fittings part number 1959N1 up to 24 inches.
Haven’t even watched it yet and I’m so excited, finally!!! Now can you build custom organization in your shop cabinets... I need ideas like drop down shelves etc. 🤞🏼
Building one for my shopsmith. Love how you made it thin, if deeper, drawers become full,, heavy, unorganized Great idea on magnets and tape storage I will add foam to one drawer, as I use the router, pin router in mine. Trying to figure out my pin, on the top of table. I came up with a circular removable insert in my drawing. Rotate vacuum hole around work, pin is centered anchored to base below. Am I missing something. Need mine light, as I will be installing on my aluminum table, when standing up, revoing otherwise. Part of the Shopsmith system, I am developing for building guitars mostly. Thanks, great content.
I'd add some thumb screws to the 4 corners for hot swaping those metal/wood interchangable tops. Also, maybe just me but I like to keep my drill/forstner bits nearby, so I'd add a mount for those (maybe to the stand itself so they stay with the press instead of being removable).
Nice job and looks great! Let’s see it in action doing some drilling. I wouldn’t cut your aluminum fence yet an d try modding your wood fence to dial in first.
I agree.... If you are using the fence, most likely something will be up against it (the purpose of the fence, right?) thus blocking the cutout... Maybe the hole in the sacrificial insert, or slightly undersized/sliding like the Katz-Moses version so you can have dust collection in front of the work piece.
Hmmm, maybe I'll buy a $40 table so I can build a really sweet one, LOL, very tempting but maybe just but the newer Wen, and mod it to get the DC. Also love the hi-lo fence!
Something I noticed is a lot of drill presses have a pipe to attach the table for mounting. If you have the capability, you could build your wooden table with a pipe and simply swap the metal and wood table, instead of using a bunch of clamps on the metal table.
Love it. I watched all of it even though I have very little interest in getting a drill press right now. Over the years I have watched all of you videos, it has been awesome to see you grow and improve your videos and your skills. Keep up the good work! You clearly love your “side hustle “
I like your table with the dust collection. I'm thinking of making one, too, but with a bunch of holes surrounding the zero clearance plate. This will give the dust a place to go. I only have a bench version so I will have to carefully consider the drawers, but if they fit.....
I like your table design an I'm considering some thing like for my bench top along with a roll cabinet. Rings workshop could be worth watching for drill dust collections.
Great build. Is there any functional reason why you had the removable top cap screws screw in from the bottom rather than screw down from the top? I would probably be dropping and losing the screws when taking out !! Also would need a set of the screw insets for each table rather than just one set in the base and the same screws to secure the top. There could be a good reason that I'm missing .
You may want to invest in a light filtering blind for that window by the drill press for video lighting purposes. Added bonus, no one can see what you have in your garage.
The one I built was from Wood Magazine, 3 decades ago!!! Holding up very well. Drill press table, a must have for any drill press owner! Typo in the pinned comment buddy!
I love all of your tips and ideas. Here's one for you: put a damp paper towel under your cutting board when cutting veggies and it won't slip around. Ha!
12:55 - "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, ONE NATION under GOD, indivisible, with LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL" .... LOVE the shorts, truly shop greatness in it itself 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Love the drill press table as well. We definitely need one. And yes, I am dang tired of getting sawdust on my boys hair 😂😂
My Grandad was a wood and metal shop teacher. His dust collection was a broom and dustpan (at least at his home workshop). Aren’t workshops cooler with sawdust everywhere?
Ok watching this and on the table saw Using a push stick. I bring this up knowing your using a anti kick back or splitter or riving knife. But think about this it will make perfect sense. On stock as your pushing past the blade if you put the push stick close to the fence your part wants to turn into the blade, but if its on the blade side your parts trying to turn into the fence becuse its a narrow tool a wide push block gives you more control becuse it hooks a larger surface area but the thin one lean more to making a part want to turn, on a table saw this can cause kickback. So its safer to push closer to the blade. Or use a wide push block The gripper was well thought out becuse it does this and pushes bothe the part and off cut past the blade. You dont need to buy one you can make your own. Anyway even with a splitter or riving knife it better to work to your advantage and do things like this becuse you honestly never know what could happen with a chunk of stock and tensions built up in it. A wider push block is always better but you cant always use one. Me I use board buddies they hold the stock down to the table and pull them into the fence, but they can get in the way, I can still push the end with the same or thinner stock or a sacfical pec of stock and turn off the saw when the cust done. JESSEM makes a stock guide for table saws that do what board buddies do and can flip up out of the way. I dont own a set of them for a table saw but I have them on my router table and they work really good. It makes routing a lot safer. My point is there is no such thing as too safe. You've got some really nice tools The wen drill press is beneath you Id look at the Nova drill presses The wen is more a starter machine. The Nova is more the sawstop of drill presses. It only stops short of putting butter on your toast. Auto feed, ditigtal speed auto stop depth Forward and reverse you could tap with it. I seen a table top model at a woodworking show my jaws dropped Becuse ive ran bridgports and the only difference between a bridgport and this drill press is mores taper chucks and x and y axes as well as table travel. The power head is a DC motor Its going to have total hp at any speed You wont get with a belt change speed system. And you just enter a ditigtal number or dile it in.
Take 000 steel wool, wd40 and some elbow grease and scrub the rust off the table, then wipe the wd40 off with a mild dish soap (Dawn) on a damp cloth, dry with compressed air then wax your table top like you would your table saw, do every part of it that bare metal rack colum everything and keep it like that and it won't rust. You have to coat cast iron Or humidity will make it surface rust. Even if you put on a wood table on it do it anyway or its going to rust. If you put a wood table on it years ago, take it off and do this. And do it once a year or more just to make sure it dont rust. Once you let it rust pits into the metal its hard to fix.
the flex hose (LOC-LINE) is a pain..dust collection on a drill is harder as all the dust is formed on top of the piece. So any dust collection that sucks from below doesn't really work. I created a mount that's attached to the drill press pole, then 3d printed an attachment so the blue loc-line could be mounted. It wasn't really good to mount to the pole as you need a lot of the hose sections to get the thing to get close enough to the drill bit, only to realize that the other side of the chuck is caked in dust. ( I end up wiping the dust under the bit all the time which is dumb) If you attach to your fence a dust port, then this sometimes gets cancelled out depending on the height of the piece you are drilling. You need some kind of soft rubbery HEMI-hood that can somehow be supported above the the thing you are drilling...so I took all that crap away and my 3" flex powertech hose just sits beside my drill, and I drill a hole, then suck it it up rinse and repeat...so far that satisfies me the most. I can send send a pick of the loc-line set up if anyone wants to see. Its 50% effective. Sucks one side only:)
This press has worked like a charm for my projects ruclips.net/user/postUgkxajoEbapTfqWaadnqb04h6U576yxXp-FE . I didn't even secure it to my table top, mainly due to the fact that I was using a 15 lbs drill vise. It's not flimsy at all as to what others have claimed it to be. Make sure the locking nuts and levers are secured and there won't be any issues with light pressure and patience. I was able to drill through aluminum, plastic, and steel (steel took a while) with no problems at all. Yeah it took a little longer than a regular drill press, but I don't have the space OR the money for one.The instruction manual was worthless, but luckily assembling the press was intuitive. However, the manual would be good for ordering replacement parts if needed. There is a nice breakdown of the parts that are included in the kit. Before ordering, make sure it is compatible with your unit, it is clearly stated what models the press is compatible with.This was an excellent purchase for $40!!
Great build, I have built something very similar. The only problem I encountered was screwing the T track into MDF. It eventually pulls out
after use do to clamping pressure. Better off drilling right through MDF and using machine screws bolted on the underside.
This gave me an idea for a cast iron table using an old table saw top.
Again we’ll done ! Looks great!
Another plus of the store bought fence is that you can turn it flat to use as a low profile fence for smaller stock where the chuck would hit the fence.
I dig it. Jonathan Katz Moses makes probably the best stop block around. Figured since you used his table as a base, pimping his stop block is a fair compromise. 😁🤟
Holy cow, that Laguna table saw was spewing some serious dust. Love your approach to these videos. The easy switch from woodworking to metalworking for a drill press is key. Glad you underscore that.
Very good design. Not too bulky or obtuse. I would add one last thing... Extendable side wings, I like Shop Smith's that slide out on square aluminum bars. Sometimes you need that extra distance when drilling out waste for table legs. But even hinged extensions could work also.
2 things:
- you can see how dedicated he is with his infomercial that he's running the drill press while doing a skit.
- he got a tan.
Love the Park City shirt... oh the video was good too! Thanks for sharing!
Opening alone earned a like and comment! Good creativity Travis!
I like Matthias Wandel's table. Yours is also awesome.
Nice upgrades. A keyless chuck would be the icing on the cake.
I have learned to hate keyless chucks. They never hold the bits tight enough for me. Just my 2 cents.
Nice infomercial lead in.......and, nice drill press table.
Awesome build. And you’re way better than the Sham Wow guy ever dreamed of being! If RUclips doesn’t work out, you could have a great future in infomercials!
Man this channel has come a long way! I remember when you had less than 30k subs. You make really great content. Keep up the good work.
I was watching some of his old videos and I think it was his first workbench video that he said he had something like 25 subs.
Lol I like how you didn't use your little stop block you did for the miter saw table. Ive been wanting to add that to my table for awhile now
Tele Shop Nation for the win!
I don't buy many plans; I bought these. Looks fantastic.
Very funny intro it was a good laugh. Need that these days.
I imagine r/wheredidthesodago would enjoy it.
Travis, this is the best video yet. Thanks for sharing. Love the intro.
I found multiple mistakes in the directions I paid for. It didn't keep me from building it correctly, but it required extra time to figure out what the directions should have said. I am happy with final results.
Great video. I liked everything up to the point of paint. I must say, you have far more confidence in your plans then I do. Doing all the cuts for the entire project in advance takes guts and confidence you may not want to modify it.
Loved the awkward "WHAT DO I DO WITH MY HANDS?!" intro. LOL!
Cool build! One of the things I'd like to see is how to quickly and accurately keep the table perpendicular to the drill itself. My table always rotates along the post as I raise/lower it.
If you never have need to shift the table left and right based on the kind of work you do with the drill press, the solution is simple: drill 3/16" hole in the top and the bottom of the toothed rack on the vertical pillar and install a screw into the pillar. That keeps the center of the table perfectly aligned with the quill's axis as you raise or lower the table.
I know it would be more expensive to make it out of aluminum extrusion, but have you looked into the product below? At 10mm or about .4 inches it could make a nice drill press table and add a wooden top.
McMaster-CARR
Miniature T-Slotted Framing and Fittings
part number 1959N1 up to 24 inches.
Good stuff. I don't even have a floor-standing drill press. I just like your videos. (Love the Park City shirt too.)
Nice build! Good job. How do you deal with raising/lowering the table? The stock cranks just stop working when large tables go on. Thanks.
Haven’t even watched it yet and I’m so excited, finally!!! Now can you build custom organization in your shop cabinets... I need ideas like drop down shelves etc. 🤞🏼
Well done, Travis !
Awesome as always! We’ll done..
The intro is wonderful.
I like adding powdered dye to my shellac to help color things
That's a pretty cool idea!
Good video Travis. Fun to watch and a good design.
For dust collection 3D print a telescoping set of tubes with an opening at/ in the bottom piece.
You made my day with the dustbae
Great design
Reminds of those earlier 90’s infomercials. Like the look. Keeps them coming!
great job. I will be building one for myself soon.
Building one for my shopsmith. Love how you made it thin, if deeper, drawers become full,, heavy, unorganized
Great idea on magnets and tape storage
I will add foam to one drawer, as I use the router, pin router in mine.
Trying to figure out my pin, on the top of table.
I came up with a circular removable insert in my drawing. Rotate vacuum hole around work, pin is centered anchored to base below.
Am I missing something.
Need mine light, as I will be installing on my aluminum table, when standing up, revoing otherwise. Part of the Shopsmith system, I am developing for building guitars mostly.
Thanks, great content.
Very nice job well done
I would have liked for you to have explained and shown how the dust collection works.
Sounds like you’re on the right track
I'd add some thumb screws to the 4 corners for hot swaping those metal/wood interchangable tops. Also, maybe just me but I like to keep my drill/forstner bits nearby, so I'd add a mount for those (maybe to the stand itself so they stay with the press instead of being removable).
I'd go for speed knobs as they're more comfortable to use, but the idea is the same, definitely.
Cool build!
You have inspired me to rework my shop
I built one and I like it, but I paint my shop bright colors. Purple, red, yellow, it makes it a brighter cheerier place.
Cool project.
Great project. Great work.
Cool build sir
Nice job and looks great! Let’s see it in action doing some drilling. I wouldn’t cut your aluminum fence yet an d try modding your wood fence to dial in first.
I agree.... If you are using the fence, most likely something will be up against it (the purpose of the fence, right?) thus blocking the cutout... Maybe the hole in the sacrificial insert, or slightly undersized/sliding like the Katz-Moses version so you can have dust collection in front of the work piece.
Hmmm, maybe I'll buy a $40 table so I can build a really sweet one, LOL, very tempting but maybe just but the newer Wen, and mod it to get the DC. Also love the hi-lo fence!
Something I noticed is a lot of drill presses have a pipe to attach the table for mounting. If you have the capability, you could build your wooden table with a pipe and simply swap the metal and wood table, instead of using a bunch of clamps on the metal table.
Another good project! Thx for sharing once again!!
Love this! Now I just need the drill press 😁.
I added a caliper to mine instead of the stop thing so I have a digital readout of how deep I’m drilling!
Awesome bro
Very Inspiring...
Thank you, for an AWESOME Build!!!
Chuck in Michigan
I saw this other design where the dust collection was through the fence. The hose attached on the end of the fence.
Love it. I watched all of it even though I have very little interest in getting a drill press right now. Over the years I have watched all of you videos, it has been awesome to see you grow and improve your videos and your skills. Keep up the good work! You clearly love your “side hustle “
Nice build Travis. Always enjoy watching your videos for inspiration. Your plans are very detailed and easy to follow too. Keep them coming.
I like your table with the dust collection. I'm thinking of making one, too, but with a bunch of holes surrounding the zero clearance plate. This will give the dust a place to go. I only have a bench version so I will have to carefully consider the drawers, but if they fit.....
this is exactly what I want to make! thanks for combining all those ideas together.
Great video. Thus top is on my to do list! Thx for sharing
I like your table design an I'm considering some thing like for my bench top along with a roll cabinet. Rings workshop could be worth watching for drill dust collections.
Great build. Is there any functional reason why you had the removable top cap screws screw in from the bottom rather than screw down from the top? I would probably be dropping and losing the screws when taking out !! Also would need a set of the screw insets for each table rather than just one set in the base and the same screws to secure the top. There could be a good reason that I'm missing .
Great build!! Super good intro...
Great video
That intro was SO funny :)
Nice build. I have a small toolbox under my table for all my accessories.
Outstanding intro 🤣🤣
Next easy weekend project: zero clearance inserts for your table saw.
Good work Travis.
Great video!
Great ideas, been looking for this type of project!
Nice work bro. Just moved and I can’t even think about building until I get all the stuff in storage!
dude that intro was hilarious 😂
You may want to invest in a light filtering blind for that window by the drill press for video lighting purposes. Added bonus, no one can see what you have in your garage.
Hello, very good job, salutations de Suisse 🇨🇭. A bientôt 👍👍👍👍
Awesome video
great build! I would love to see more b-roll of the final project in use. that goes for your other project too! love your stuff and keep it up
Thumbs up just from the intro.
Great build! Gonna make one for my smaller drilllpress
I'd buy your store bought table Travis. This is one ld like to build once I'm vack up and running again
The one I built was from Wood Magazine, 3 decades ago!!!
Holding up very well.
Drill press table, a must have for any drill press owner!
Typo in the pinned comment buddy!
Thanks for the heads up! Fixed
That intro was hilarious
Great job, you always do such pro work!
Wow the dust collection on that table saw is terrible.
9:44 - Most relatable woodworking face.
Also, I thought sawdust in the children's hair was a parenting goal. . .
I think you and Travis got it wrong, it's not saw dust, it's MAN Glitter!
HOW ABOUT THE LEVER TO ADJUST YOUR TABLE >. DID YOU EXT THE LEVER ???
great video thanks stay safe
I love all of your tips and ideas. Here's one for you: put a damp paper towel under your cutting board when cutting veggies and it won't slip around. Ha!
Great project and nicely executed 👍🏼
12:55 - "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, ONE NATION under GOD, indivisible, with LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL" .... LOVE the shorts, truly shop greatness in it itself 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love the drill press table as well. We definitely need one. And yes, I am dang tired of getting sawdust on my boys hair 😂😂
Great intro
My Grandad was a wood and metal shop teacher. His dust collection was a broom and dustpan (at least at his home workshop). Aren’t workshops cooler with sawdust everywhere?
And here I was thinking this morning, "Hmmm...I haven't seen a ShopNation video in a while"
Ok watching this and on the table saw
Using a push stick.
I bring this up knowing your using a anti kick back or splitter or riving knife.
But think about this it will make perfect sense. On stock as your pushing past the blade if you put the push stick close to the fence your part wants to turn into the blade, but if its on the blade side your parts trying to turn into the fence becuse its a narrow tool a wide push block gives you more control becuse it hooks a larger surface area but the thin one lean more to making a part want to turn, on a table saw this can cause kickback.
So its safer to push closer to the blade.
Or use a wide push block
The gripper was well thought out becuse it does this and pushes bothe the part and off cut past the blade.
You dont need to buy one you can make your own.
Anyway even with a splitter or riving knife it better to work to your advantage and do things like this becuse you honestly never know what could happen with a chunk of stock and tensions built up in it.
A wider push block is always better but you cant always use one.
Me I use board buddies they hold the stock down to the table and pull them into the fence, but they can get in the way, I can still push the end with the same or thinner stock or a sacfical pec of stock and turn off the saw when the cust done. JESSEM makes a stock guide for table saws that do what board buddies do and can flip up out of the way.
I dont own a set of them for a table saw but I have them on my router table and they work really good. It makes routing a lot safer.
My point is there is no such thing as too safe. You've got some really nice tools
The wen drill press is beneath you
Id look at the Nova drill presses
The wen is more a starter machine.
The Nova is more the sawstop of drill presses. It only stops short of putting butter on your toast.
Auto feed, ditigtal speed auto stop depth
Forward and reverse you could tap with it. I seen a table top model at a woodworking show my jaws dropped
Becuse ive ran bridgports and the only difference between a bridgport and this drill press is mores taper chucks and x and y axes as well as table travel.
The power head is a DC motor
Its going to have total hp at any speed
You wont get with a belt change speed system. And you just enter a ditigtal number or dile it in.
Take 000 steel wool, wd40 and some elbow grease and scrub the rust off the table, then wipe the wd40 off with a mild dish soap (Dawn) on a damp cloth, dry with compressed air then wax your table top like you would your table saw, do every part of it that bare metal rack colum everything and keep it like that and it won't rust. You have to coat cast iron
Or humidity will make it surface rust.
Even if you put on a wood table on it do it anyway or its going to rust.
If you put a wood table on it years ago, take it off and do this. And do it once a year or more just to make sure it dont rust. Once you let it rust pits into the metal its hard to fix.
the flex hose (LOC-LINE) is a pain..dust collection on a drill is harder as all the dust is formed on top of the piece. So any dust collection that sucks from below doesn't really work. I created a mount that's attached to the drill press pole, then 3d printed an attachment so the blue loc-line could be mounted. It wasn't really good to mount to the pole as you need a lot of the hose sections to get the thing to get close enough to the drill bit, only to realize that the other side of the chuck is caked in dust. ( I end up wiping the dust under the bit all the time which is dumb) If you attach to your fence a dust port, then this sometimes gets cancelled out depending on the height of the piece you are drilling. You need some kind of soft rubbery HEMI-hood that can somehow be supported above the the thing you are drilling...so I took all that crap away and my 3" flex powertech hose just sits beside my drill, and I drill a hole, then suck it it up rinse and repeat...so far that satisfies me the most. I can send send a pick of the loc-line set up if anyone wants to see. Its 50% effective. Sucks one side only:)
That's a great design - The dust collection would be nice, my drill press area is a real mess!