Homemade Drill Press Depth Stop / Depth Gauge
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- Making a Digital Depth Gauge for my Drill Press is something I have needed for a long time and thanks to a Digital Caliper, I finally adapted one for my own drill press to help set holes when using Forstner bits for things like machine nuts and bolts or even T-nuts when building jigs and other woodworking parts and components. This makes an affordable drill press depth stop.
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I don't know if you'll get this after all it's old. But here goes. After watching your video on mounting a caliper on a drill press, i went out and built one. I got one part mounted but couldn't figure out how to mount the other half of the caliper. I came in from my shop and reviewed your video and discovered I'd mounted the caliper wrong. Now it's right, thanks a hundred times!!
Mr Knecht, your channel is pure gold. Much respect and thanks.
Brilliant idea. I just did this with my pillar drill.
Thank you for showing me how to build a new drill stop.
Great tip. Just what I have been looking for. Thanks.
Thanks again, Colin. But this time you inspired me to just buy one. Igaging just released a DRO for a drill press for $38 USD (of course that’s $170,000 CAD 😂). But I bought one. Hasn’t gotten here yet but I’m eager for the precision. I bought their DRO for my router table and it is just SUPERB! And under $100. Being able to specify a depth of, say, 6.3mm or 0.161” and actually achieve that, and repeatedly, is a real joy. Money well spent.
Have a new Harbor Freight drill press I’d used to drill holes in a wood strips to cover rows of bolt heads. On or about the 30th drill, the depth gauge/stop snapped off (bridged gauge mount on head & chuck) Made of plastic-could not believe it. I am a 65 yr old female, weight 100 lbs, & to think I could put “undo” pressure on the handles to snap that piece off is telling how weak/flimsy the part is.. Still under warranty, could get a replacement part, but why bother? Think I’ll go with your build. Thank You! 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱
I have a depth gauge setup similar to this but I used wood to mount the gauge. Wood was much easier to work with and it is very solid. I think it looks better too. I have it setup to slightly rotate so I can open the cover and change belt speeds.
I have to make some sort of gauge for a partly defunct drill press and the use of of quality plywood sounds good. What struck me with Colins design is that it's quite a hassel when/if he needs to change the speed. A rotating mechanism for the gauge might work.
I have to say, i got a depth stop on my drill press, but its more like an "ish" kind of thing. This one really give a well acceptable accuracy as it looks like. I think i am gonna try to combine this with mine. thanks a lot Colin!
Superb idea. I literally just came out of the shop after counter boring some holes to a guess at the depth. I have exactly the same mechanism as you and it's a bit of a lottery. Going to add this to my list of 1001 shop improvements I must have. Thanks Colin.
About grinding. As a bridge builder most of my life, I was on the job one day and one of my workers was grinding some steel beams. He was between the late sun and me. As I looked toward the sun, I could see billions of particles in the air. Remember this. When you are grinding steel, pieces of steel and pieces of the grinding wheel fly into the air. The sparks you see are just a minor part of what is in the air. Therefore, it is critical that you wear eye protection that totally surrounds your eyes. I was amazed that day at to what was in the air. At that time, I was wearing contact lenses. I went to. the Dr. for my annual exam and as he looked at my eyes with the contacts still in, he said, you have a piece of medal in your lens. I always wear eye protection and a shield when grinding. That had to have come from the flying dust in the air and got onto my contact. Without the lens, it was have been in my eye. Next time you are around someone grinding outside, check it out. You will see what is in the air.
very good advice !!! ... when I was a teenager I was making some lockpicks on a bench grinder out of some hacksaw blades and I got a small speck in my eye ... at the time it just felt like a bit of dust and the feeling went away ... over the following days it felt like when you have a piece of hair in your eye - not painful but an irritating feeling that just wouldnt go away ... had to go to ophthalmic A+E and they had to dig it out with a needle .... it was a hot filing that embedded in my eye ... not a fun feeling having to keep your eye open while you see a needle coming your way .... from that point on , before I switch on any power tool I stop for a second and think of what safety equipment is needed to run that power tool !!! .... if anyone makes fun of you for wearing safety equipment (even for the smallest of tasks) , stop hanging around those people !!
And that's also a reason why you should wear at least a face mask, in addition with eye protection, so you're not breathing in all that metal dust and so forth, ideally a respirator would be better and offer more protection.
Great idea, and should be "common sense" for anyone. You are only issued two eyes, and they are not replaceable or repairable from physical injury.
As a welder in a shipyard I had same experience with metal particles in the air while welding in a confine space and twice had to see the eye doctor to get rust drilled out of my eye, and I wore my safety glasses always.
My god, I can't thank you enough! I've wanted to do a project like this for a real long time but wasn't quite sure how. You make it look easy. As it happens I have four calipers two of which I use infrequently. I also have a collar I made a long time ago, and never used. It's now in my junk drawer. I'm getting towards the end of my current project, My next one will be the depth stop according to your video. Thanks So Much!
i dont know anything on wood working and dont plan to do wood working but this channel looks interesting so i subscribed
At least you'll get to see a really nice man talking!
Hi Colin! Ebay runs the same caliper if you're patient from China for about 5 bucks. It takes about 3 weeks to arrive and they do a GREAT job of packing it! I just got two last month.
Very nice idea Colin. One thing I don't like about the cheap digital calipers is they eat through batteries so quick. I don't know why. Expensive ones at work go years on one battery. My cheap one at home kills them so quickly, I quit using it. So I use dial indicator at home.
Hey Colin, I don't even own a drill press (yet). But I enjoyed your video. Straight talk, to the point, good work flow, great camera angles ... and you edit all of the useless stuff out of your video. Very nice job!
From a very rookie DIY-er, THANKS! 😉👌🏻
Thanks for posting this video, I have a older drill press that has a round bar with to nuts affixed to it for depth setting & its difficult to set, so this with modifications (to match my drill press) will be an AWESOME add on to my drill press!!! Thanks a million!
I could be wrong, but it seems to me that you are going to have a problem when you need to change the belts for a different speed. Your caliper is sticking up where the cover swings to. Bang! Clang! Broken caliper!
I have a metal mill-drill and have added a digital caliper to it for precise depth control. But on my drill presses the thousandth of an inch accuracy is a bit more than what is called for. Instead of adding a caliper to them, I have simply added a better depth stop. I added a threaded rod with what is called a speed nut. The speed nut has a button on it that allows it to be moved up and down the threaded rod without turning it. Then, when the adjustment is close, it can be rotated for a fine adjustment. And it can be returned to the top/full depth setting in an instant. The speed nut makes this kind of depth stop actually usable because, unlike a regular nut that must be rotated through many turns to adjust it and then many more turns to restore the full depth movement, it works instantly. The up side is that it actually gets used, instead of just being left to the top setting, gathering dust and rust. And it allows fine adjustments, unlike the collar and clamping screw depth stops on so many DPs. In addition, an actual depth stop can be set once and used for many holes or counter sinks or counter bores without even looking at it again. Much faster than using a digital caliper and accurate enough for wood work and even for most metal work. I use mine all the time.
Very clever! How about trying one of those handles that comes with a hammer drill for the chuck collar and incorporating the digital slide on to the handle? It might look a little cleaner
Perfect timing. I’m preparing to make a hanging storage shelf that will require drilling 40 holes each for Tee Nuts and bolt heads. Thanks for another great idea!
I'm supposed to finish Christmas shopping today, but now I have to go to the shop and modify my drill instead. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
As always, very useful information, well and cheerfully presented. Again, thank you.
Cool use for the low-cost calipers from Princess Auto (Canada) or Harbor Freight (USA). Their sensors and electronics are definitely "good enough" for the precision needed in woodworking. I'm going to implement this on my 1930's vintage radial drill press.
Very nice fabricating Colin, works very well.
I liked the idea so I adapted it to my drill press.
Great idea. Going to use this on mine. I think I will benefit more from this then the bolt/nut combo I have.
Can you give us an update how well it's been working and how well it has held up? What would you charge if anything. Thanks for all Good advice over the years
I didn't think that was going to work. I'll be making one now😁 most of the time I go a little deeper and use hot glue to hold nuts and t-nuts in place. Great tip!
Happy Holidays to you and your family, wishing you all the best for the New Year. Thank you for the many videos you've posted, I've really enjoyed them and learnt so much.
What a ripper idea, mate. 👍🏽
Definitely be incorporating this one in the shop. 👌🏽
Cheers.
Kool ideal Colin, DRO for the drill press I like it.
nice idea colin
Great idea and execution Colin. Merry Christmas.
This is fantastic!!
Thanks for the idea. Going to pick one up next I’m in Princess Auto
Awesome idea
Very nice indeed. Well done and explained as well. Be careful when you want to change speeds. It appears like the cover will hit the caliper body.
Absolutely great idea! I had fidgeting with the nuts on mine and they always seem to want o vibrate loose as I don’t over tighten them. This is on the to do list!
Many digital callipers have a soft off switch design, meaning the battery is always in use, awaiting the user to operate the unit. This draws current and flats the battery and can give false readings at a later date when the device is running low on power. Therefore many engineers have found a few hacks to add a battery hard off switch function, (videos are on youtube) so they do not need to remove the battery regularly to either save the battery or replace it. It is a good idea to test a digital calliper with a test block gauge regularly if the unit has a soft off design.
Great information, I wasn't aware of this. This may also explain why I always need to replace my battery in infrequently used digital tools!!! Thanks,
Yes, the battery was always dead when I wanted to use my digital caliper. :( My solution was to get a dial caliper, no battery, always works, and I got one that has a dual scale, 1000ths of an inch and fractions. so no conversions. :)
@@timothyhood2827 I have one that I bought from HF. You must turn it off after use or battery will die quickly. A caveat is that it comes on automatically if you move the jaws. Be sure to look at it before you finish with it.
@@richardbrooks3569 Thanks again. I too got a couple from HB and have adapted one as a measuring device for correcting fence movement to help make micro adjustments. I simply was unaware of the soft off battery issue. When I get around to it I'll check out actually turning it off. I guess I'm lazy in that I know they will turn themselves off shortly so I never bother worrying (until now that is). I will also find some more discussion on the issue as you advise. Collin may not have HB available. I believe he is Canadian. He misses out on some opportunities to find inexpensive tools. But he also misses out on spending way too much money on tools not necessarily needed because no HB is such a toy store!!!
Yes, all of mine have that blasted soft off and I go through batteries like no tomorrow EVEN when it is just sitting off.
Top tinkering Colin!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😲
Brilliant Colin...ace
Nice work! I really need to install that on my drill press. Thank you for sharing 👍😎🇦🇺
Merry Christmas Colin to you and your family.
Excellent but I have the drill press with the sliders on the left side as you mentioned. Would be nice to see you make a video on the other type as well. Otherwise yours looks very well made.
How long did the plastic vernier gauge last Colin? Or, are you still using it please? Tony.
Great idea Colin!
Totally brillant idea Colin! I will have to remember that. Have yourself a very Happy Holiday season...... 👍
Genius! Thank you
What an innovative idea. Thank you!!
Great job on the drill press upgrade Colin! Thanks For sharing the video with us and Merry Christmas!🎄🎁💖👌👍😎JP
Well done mate, nice work and good idea.
Great idea!
Thanks
Great Idea
Such a Awesome rig, going to see how to make adjustments for my drill press. Take Care
Great idea!
That was very clever and well put together, might have to try in on my press. Thanks again Colin, always learn and enjoy! Happy Holidays from DT in MT
Thats a Great Innovation....
I have been watching the TH-cam machinists, they sometimes use digital calipers to measure carriage and tail stock movement. That being said they use magnets to attach the calipers so they can be removed and installed easier.
Good idea if the caliper must be removed for use elsewhere. But with the low-cost FRP bodied ones available now, I would just make the caliper a permanent fixture.
Yes sir I tend to agree with you.
That was great Colin, I have just bought myself a drill press for Christmas. I have a metal calliper. Guess I’m going to be out in the shed fairly soon. Thanks for a great video. Merry Christmas Graham 🇬🇧🇬🇧🌲
A nice arrangement. However, when one looks at the fully erected depth gauge (as shown at 9:51/10:56) one wonders what would happen if whilst one is drilling one needs to change the speed of the drill-press. The current arrangement necessitates stopping everything and dismantling the calliper which, as is, prevents the pulley-cover from opening. Maybe one solution would be to cut the calliper where the calibrated scale ends. Then the calliper would not interfere with the opening of the pulley-cover,but one would need to also relocate the bracket(s) the hold the calliper rails together, at the front end of the instrument.
This a really good idea. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, love your program. I always see in woodworking channel's making jig's that are great solving problems and making woodworking easier but there's a problem that I haven't seen many people solve, like noise reduction solutions for making homemade machines or jig's that lowers the noise you maybe have neighbors that don't like the noise of your tools especially router's and hand saws. Can you please if you have ideas please let me know how to solve this. Ty
I`ve been working on that idea so thanks a lot, time saved
Great idea.
You are clever I like it thanks 👍
I love it!
Thank you Colin!
Brilliant idea Colin ! going to have to make one of those . Many thanks and a happy Christmas to you mate.
Bram
Nice. I'd consider getting a non-electronic fractionsl caliper. No batteries, the reading doesn't jump around like digital, and you can use fractions instead of decimal
Most of the digital ones can be switched to fractional indications.
very nice setup
Collin what is the brand name of your drill press and do you like it or would you buy a different type
Good video, and good tips
Interesting. What would be a good set of "Forstner" Bits to purchase bud? Cheers for the video :-)
Will the top cover over the drive pulleys still open up to change speeds?
Pretty cool idea colin happy holidays to you and yours
That looks like a great idea! Might be very useful too :D
Very well thought off.
But I already have a digital diplay on my drill.
Thanks for sharing.
Willy from Belgium.
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Yet another very good idea :-)
I go to Princess Auto all the time. If I feel like stepping it up a notch I'll hit a place called KMS tools. Little bit higher end stuff.
How ingenious !!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
I noticed a little flex of the fixed bracket, but for how you're using it, it shouldn't affect the accuracy to any great degree. Although you will have to remove everything when you need to change the drill speed, but maybe you're like me, you only change it when you absolutely need a different spindle speed, otherwise you vary the amount of pressure you apply turning the pinion shaft.
great idea. Thanks fór sharing. i am going to try this. but i do notebookov wanted to drill into the housing. so i need to make another connection or maybe use magnets.
Ollari’s just made the exact same setup a couple days ago on their channel
Thought the same when I saw this thumbnail. It’s pretty obvious. Colin should give credit for it.
Another dude posted a vid about it 3 weeks ago, so should Ollari credit him?
Yes, that was Patrick Sullivan that posted one 3 or so weeks ago. Nothing against what Colin did here but the mount that Patrick made appears to be very solid with no apparent flex. I won’t get into an argument as to whether an individual should give credit to another poster for an idea or not, as I am pretty sure someone has probably posted a similar solution in the past. Please go have a look at what Patrick put together, I will likely try to pattern something similar for my 10 year old Craftsman drill press.
I remember something like this several years ago. I even brought a cheap HF caliper back then but still procrastinating on this mod.
That's a awesome idea. And also what is that watch you are wearing? That looks pretty cool.
Nice Job!!
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really enjoy the video, a great idea!!!
I like the idea but the way you have it mounted you now have to remove it if you are needing to open the sheave cover to change speeds or any other maintenance.
I have one of these digital calipers, they don't last, the batteries die a lot, you have to take them out, and the measurement gets lost a lot, its like it skids inside or something. Mine was just $10
Can we have an update? How is this holding up?
Thanks!
Nice way .. But to measure the thickness of the screw, put it on the surface of the wood and put the drill on it without running, then lift the screw and lower the drill to the surface of the wood. You will get the thickness of the screw
Very cool!
Clever.
Cool as always Colin, I subscribed for a reason (s).
Use the caliper to measure the nut thickness.
You could also measure the thickness of the bolt head by zero out on bottom of head and then going to the wood. Give u exactly then add 20 thou. Just an idea. Clever use of a cheap tool
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great thanks!
Hi Colin 👍
how does that work out when you change speed
It will work exactly the same, speed does not affect depth
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