[sdiy] Drill Press and Crimpers?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:20, Jeff Farr wrote:
> I'm somewhat surprised this hasn't come up before.. so please forgive
> me if my search feature is disabled ;D
>
> I'm looking to get a drill press for drilling PCB's and MOTM/Par-metal
> cases.  Top quality is something I can't afford.. and frankly I'd
> rather get the cheapest one available... except I don't have much
> tolerance for crappy tools...  What are you all using?  I'm going to
> steer clear of Harbor Freight and the real bottom of the barrel, but
> what about some of those Ryobi HomeDepot deals?

I haven't got any of that machinery here yet,  but do have a pretty strong 
interest in small machines,  and will probably end up DIY'ing a small mill.  
As far as the stuff that you can buy,  though,  a LOT of it with all sorts of 
different brand names up front and with different paint jobs etc. are all 
coming out of the same factories in China.  The one thing I do like about 
Harbor Freight (where I _would_ buy such stuff) is that if you don't like the 
condition of something,  you can take it back and exchange it for something 
else pretty easily.

> And, I've lately gotten really tired of crimping my Molex kk .100 headers
> with a pair of needlenose... but I'm still scared off by the prices of
> crimpers.. suggestions?  Same goes for the .156 "MOTM" PSU connectors..

I don't do enough of those to justify a crimper,  so I guess I'll just keep 
putting up with the needle-nose approach to things.  :-)

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