[sdiy] Drill Press Recommendations?

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:56:52PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > When I bought my mill ( a Sieg X2 ) I looked at both the Grizzly and HF
> > version.  Grizzly ones are cleaned better and have a few minor differences
> > on what parts are installed, different wheels and diffent taper ( MT vs R8
> > ).
> 
> I haven't decided yet whether I want to go with one or the other of those,  
> but it's moot for now anyhow,  that purchase,  if I do go there at all,  is 
> quite a ways off.  A place to put it would be good.  :-)

I cannot stress how much fun it has been to have a small mill.  Sure, it
makes me want a BIG mill but it also lets me do things that would have taken
real time before, like cutting square holes in things, slots of slide pots,
replacement bits for broken joysticks... its an incredably handy tool to
have.  I'm even using it for a lot of simple drilling just because having a
large table with a useful clamp surface ( relative to the same size drill
press ) is REALLY handy, and the tooling I got from littlemachineshop.com
was quite reasonably priced and is holding up much better then I expected.

I haven't anything yet that I couldnt have done manually, but I've done
several things I wouldnt have -attempted- manually.  

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