I use cheap harbor freight drill presses. You do need to check that they drill a decently perpendicular hole. youtube "tramming drill press" I checked mine using a dial indicator and found the 0 (zero) mark on the table tilt was (surprisingly) accurate and just go by that. A simple way to check it is drill through a big piece of wood, flip it over and drill through the same hole. If no wood is removed on the second pass through the "backside" the table tilt is probably OK. Crude but it works. If the second pass gives you a lop sided or oval hole, your drill table isn't square. Run out on the cheap drill presses can be improved by switching to a hand chuck from a key chuck.
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hat's the model drill press you are using? Thanks.
I use cheap harbor freight drill presses. You do need to check that they drill a decently perpendicular hole. youtube "tramming drill press" I checked mine using a dial indicator and found the 0 (zero) mark on the table tilt was (surprisingly) accurate and just go by that. A simple way to check it is drill through a big piece of wood, flip it over and drill through the same hole. If no wood is removed on the second pass through the "backside" the table tilt is probably OK. Crude but it works. If the second pass gives you a lop sided or oval hole, your drill table isn't square. Run out on the cheap drill presses can be improved by switching to a hand chuck from a key chuck.