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I made a different kind of drill press table for one of my smaller drill presses this week, but since my internet has been going up and down like a yoyo tonight I've lost the post 4 times before finishing it. Maybe if I can just get the pictures poster, you can all figure out what it looks like and I can just answer questions tomorrow.
Well the pictures made it. So let me try to describe it. I found the idea for it on YouTube. A German gentleman named Stephan Pohnlien posted the idea. What is in my pictures below is my Americanized version of his idea. Thank you very much Stephan.
The fence pivots on a 1/4-20 bolt in the left rear of the table, and locks in position with a clamp made from wood pieces. I used two hanger bolts, those with a wood thread one one end and machine threads on the other. The machine thread is also 1/4-20. One of these just keeps the moving part of the clamp from turning, while the other longer one extends through the clamp piece and has a 3 wing jig type 1/4-20 knob on it so that the clamp can be tightened.
The fence is a piece of 3/4" square pine. I initially had it higher, but my laser cross hairs could not shine over it. On the top of the fence I've attached a piece of Mini T Track. A 1/4-20 hex bolt fits in this T Track and has the stop block attached and another 3 wing jig 1/4-20 knob attached to to hold the stop in the desired position.
The wood table is attached to the drill press table with two 1/4-20 carriage bolts and two more of these 3 wing jig knobs. The bolts go through the slots in the metal drill press table, so I can easily loosen these bolts and move the wood forward or back to make it easier to reach and turn the table lift crank and table lock bolt. These carriage bolts have their heads countersunk into the table so the heads are below the top surface of the table.
I wanted a way to easily set up to drill the first of many identical small parts and the laser cross hairs make this easy, but I wanted an easy way to set a fence and stop so that I could set them to the position of this first part to make it easy to put the same hole in the identical parts in the exact same position. This table setup has proven to do this very easily. While I continue to hold the first part with my left hand and adjust adjust both the fence and stop positions with my right hand. Simple, but very effective, and a great idea Stephan.
Charley
Well the pictures made it. So let me try to describe it. I found the idea for it on YouTube. A German gentleman named Stephan Pohnlien posted the idea. What is in my pictures below is my Americanized version of his idea. Thank you very much Stephan.
The fence pivots on a 1/4-20 bolt in the left rear of the table, and locks in position with a clamp made from wood pieces. I used two hanger bolts, those with a wood thread one one end and machine threads on the other. The machine thread is also 1/4-20. One of these just keeps the moving part of the clamp from turning, while the other longer one extends through the clamp piece and has a 3 wing jig type 1/4-20 knob on it so that the clamp can be tightened.
The fence is a piece of 3/4" square pine. I initially had it higher, but my laser cross hairs could not shine over it. On the top of the fence I've attached a piece of Mini T Track. A 1/4-20 hex bolt fits in this T Track and has the stop block attached and another 3 wing jig 1/4-20 knob attached to to hold the stop in the desired position.
The wood table is attached to the drill press table with two 1/4-20 carriage bolts and two more of these 3 wing jig knobs. The bolts go through the slots in the metal drill press table, so I can easily loosen these bolts and move the wood forward or back to make it easier to reach and turn the table lift crank and table lock bolt. These carriage bolts have their heads countersunk into the table so the heads are below the top surface of the table.
I wanted a way to easily set up to drill the first of many identical small parts and the laser cross hairs make this easy, but I wanted an easy way to set a fence and stop so that I could set them to the position of this first part to make it easy to put the same hole in the identical parts in the exact same position. This table setup has proven to do this very easily. While I continue to hold the first part with my left hand and adjust adjust both the fence and stop positions with my right hand. Simple, but very effective, and a great idea Stephan.
Charley
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