Drill press on the way

Intheshop

Banned
Rohm is up to snuff.Keep an eye out for old Jacobs super chucks or super ball bearings or whatever they're called....too lazy to go look.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Pistolero,those are nice.We take chicom ripoff 11RS clamps,saw the bttm arm off,Tig it to steel plates....say,3x5" and use them for on location,face frame clamps with Kreg pocket hole nonsense.But the same principle applies to hold downs on several machines....slider TS's/shapers DP's,etc.,welding whatever it takes to interface with work table.Wouldn't hack up original Vise Grips but....chicoms get wacked with impunity,bwahaha.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I have a Jacobs chuck made from genuine Chinesium alloy, it's a pretty decent unit with very little run-out and scores surprisingly high in the ineffable, tactile-feel category.
 

Gary

SE Kansas
Ian; do you find you have much use/need for the Shop Fox Cross slide Vise? I'm thinking one of those would look good/work fine with my newly restored Craftsman Drill Press.
What are some of the uses you have found that adapt well to the Cross Slide?
 

Ian

Notorious member
I find it indispensable. I've milled a heap of polymer AR-15 lowers using it, also it was required for the several ventilated barrel extensions I've made, and together with hardwood jigs have used it to complete various pieces and parts of several registered suppressors. I keep a small pile of hardwood blocks of various shapes and sizes (mostly 1x2 stuff) handy as sacrificial back-up blocks when drilling things out. Have also used the milling vise for drilling gas port holes, front sight holes, and for some light milling operations in the NON-climbing formation. When it absolutely crowds me out of drilling something, I usually just swing the whole table and vise out of the way, throw a big cub-ish chunk of wood on the press base, and use that for a table.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Here's a cool little work-holding device a lot of people don't know about.

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Found a youtube video that demonstrates its use.
 

Gary

SE Kansas
I find it indispensable. I've milled a heap of polymer AR-15 lowers using it, also it was required for the several ventilated barrel extensions I've made, and together with hardwood jigs have used it to complete various pieces and parts of several registered suppressors. I keep a small pile of hardwood blocks of various shapes and sizes (mostly 1x2 stuff) handy as sacrificial back-up blocks when drilling things out. Have also used the milling vise for drilling gas port holes, front sight holes, and for some light milling operations in the NON-climbing formation. When it absolutely crowds me out of drilling something, I usually just swing the whole table and vise out of the way, throw a big cub-ish chunk of wood on the press base, and use that for a table.

I looked it over and compared it to the Grizzly vise and I think the Grizzly 4" Cross Slide will work fine for my application(s). And it's about 20% cheaper. Thanks for the info Ian, I'll get one ordered.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Not sure why the side of the garage where the press is going is the same side I have 5 full buckets of range scrap. Gonna have to move some buckets to get the press near the bench.
I better eat my Wheaties in the morning.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Then I would need more storage for those. I probably have 500 pounds in ingots now with another 2-250 ingotized lead pipe.
Is ingotized even a word?

Need to put a little air in a tire on the hand truck too. Got lots of shop towels and WD40 for removing the grease and oil from shipping. Might buy more nitrile gloves to keep my hands a bit cleaner when removing said grease.
 

JSH

Active Member
Brad, I am not a glove guy for the most part. I am more so today than in years past though.
If it is non hazardous, what is today?, I will take dish soap straight out of the bottle and rub that all over my hands. No water just soap and don't lather it. Let it dry.
When your done, a bit of water and more soap and you will stay pretty clean.

My thing with the nitrile gloves, I don't know if it is sweat inside or have a hole in them and full of what I was trying to keep off of me to begin with! Have had them full of 80-90 gear grease. Hate that stuff as much or more than Diesel engine oil or anti freeze.
Jeff
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Good points Jeff.
I will say I like gloves for cleaning the lathe, I seem to acquire fewer little metal bits in my hands that way.
I really hope I don't have much cleaning to do. My lathe was pretty easy to clean up. I hope not to have gobs of dried on goo to scrape off.
 

Intheshop

Banned
"Some" guys using disposable gloves take shop air nozzle and blow into glove for removal and reuse.......just sayin.Not that I ever did it or anything?
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Y'all are welcome to come over and clean up my mill.:D

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Plus 1 on using nitrile gloves, but only for cleaning; never when the machine is running.
As you can guess, the mill hasn't been fired up in nearly a year. Usually clear the worst of the chips with a shop vac.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
No gloves when machine is running. Not ever.
Shop vac is a great tool for cleaning up chips. Mine doesn't care for the long, stringy ones like 6061 tends to make.
And THAT is a mill. Very nice
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
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I need to hit the hardware store tomorrow. Get some hardware to bolt the press to the bench and some to bolt the vise to the adapter.

Might do some boring work with it tomorrow......
 

Ian

Notorious member
[facepalm]

I don't know if you've thought about it or not but leveling the press has been very helpful to me. I use a little hexagonal bubble level to check stuff I clamp down and with a known plumb quill that ensures drilling at right angles.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Leveling is easy enough to do. I can level with a few shims and then bolt it down to the bench.
I want to use a small plumb bob to make sure things are all centered.

The vise doesn't seem to have much lateral slop but the screws do have some backlash. It will let me drill far more precisely than I going to do freehand.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Well, you'll have to do the normal disassemble/clean mill grime/tension the gibs/adjust the backlash collar routine same as on a lathe, but that's just part of the Chinesium experience! Pick up a pack of those composite shims from the window and door section of the hardware store, they're quite handy for "chimming" stuff level and are dimensionally stable. If you don't have a couple of those little machinist's bubble levels or the ones for mounting scopes you might want to grab a couple, they're very very handy around the lathe and drill press.
 
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freebullet

Guest
That looks great!

I can't find the "I broke my arm" or the "I smooshed the wife's finger" thread, way to go!:D