Only thing that puzzles me is, Why didn't he drill all this before he took the Drill Press apart?

@martinfletchersandiegoca7523

4 жыл бұрын

The drill press would not go through that metal, I could barley open a 12mm hole to 14mm with it and a brand new Milwaukee bit.

@Tom-yc8jv

2 жыл бұрын

Also, those welds will NOT hold once he put much force while drilling..!! Horrible welds, no support for the 90 degree angles and all the weight bouncing around like a bunny rabbit....!! He made a 60 buck drill press into a 300 dollar pile of junk that can't drill anything anymore, SMH.

@KarpucMotoring

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tom-yc8jv At least he tried and put it together in a neat video - some people like to try and learn.

@the_realJP_

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah and also I prefer using a step bit

I really don’t know what to say. The most bizarre machine “upgrade” vid I’ve seen hands down

The music has got to go....lawd jeezlus

@BitchspotBlog

6 жыл бұрын

I turned the sound off almost immediately, it was making my ears bleed.

@peirregale9012

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@sourbrothers73

3 жыл бұрын

*WAHHHH WAHHHHH WAHHHHH WAHHHHH*

Too bad you didn't have a drill press when you were drilling that steel plate! ;)

now. . .find a motor worth a damn. Nice upgrade BTW!

Rebuild? Redesign! Great job!

why does noone ever use cutting oil when working with steel , omg !!

@yesdeere1376

6 жыл бұрын

scott carter hard to watch

@Name-ps9fx

5 жыл бұрын

Cutting oil = magic elixir of Life in the cutting/drilling world

@mmbabamckee

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah rip to the bit in the first scene for sure

@michaelkeymont501

4 жыл бұрын

You don’t need cutting oil when drilling at that angle... lol....

@ChuckNorrisUltra

4 жыл бұрын

Tap Magic, even on low carbon

Interesting because I also use those hard drive magnets to secure my chuck on to the drill press 🙂

Been looking to add some throat depth to mine. Then I can use my cross slide vice. Nice job.

There are reasons the drill head is kept vertical and the work surface is able to rotate and canter. That wobble every time you let go concerns me, and at the very least I would add a couple gussets to that 90. However, my guess is that it bent or broke the welds the first time you used the drill press. Also what will you use to adjust the height of your worktable now?

@robertroth3515

5 жыл бұрын

Well just looking at his welds, the wobble is the least of his concerns....

Great build!

The utility of the final product is suspect but the video sure is fun to watch. Others have brought up good points of criticism, and I want to add one point of concern. Before the mods the weight of the top assembly, which includes the motor, was distributed roughly evenly around the column. In the new arrangement all the weight has shifted to the front of the column, which surely bends the column, taking the drilled holes out of square. Perpendicular holes is one of the reason why most people buy a drill press

hmm yea got a 16 speed hf drill press too main issue is the colum its thin was am going to go to a solid instead of the tube it has now...and make a steel table instead of aluminum one has now...make more rigid..also 3/4 cap chuck

So...it’s been a year and some months. How has it worked? Any cracks or structural failures yet? Are you happy with the outcome? Good or bad, no shaming involved. I think it’s a clever idea, would like to know if there’s anything you’d do to improve on it.

Did I just watch a guy put $500 worth of labor and material into a $54 drill press with a 1/6 HP motor????? Blink, Blink I am rubbing my eyes in disbelief lol.

@rosivo3142

3 жыл бұрын

it was probably fun for him

Nice work!

Excelente! Parabéns! Obrigado por compartilhar conhecimentos!

Nice modifications, but how much slop do you have on the Horizontal Plane, do you maintain the parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical to maintain the 90° angle the further you move the drill head outwards.

Thanks for sharing the video. But I have a little suggestion, you should skip the long and tedious drilling in the video, and slow down the video when showing viewer the work results in each step. Most of the time I was just staring on how you drilling holes, plus this hideous music, ah....

@brandonswoodworks2082

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback.

I’d not a engineering genius, but for me and what I do I see more advantage in the ability to change to angle of the drill than anything else. I know I can change the angle of my table but for some reason it seems it would be better to move the entire head as you can. I see you set out to complete a project, which you succeeded in doing, well done.

Cool idea

Wtf, your the man.

awesome

Dude, you are mistaking "different" for "better"...

@DrewLSsix

4 жыл бұрын

A deeper drill press is fundamentally better.

Any flex?

Man that's a lot of effort for a Rickety cheap Drill Press Unit, but I like the innovation!

id probably add a support to that L join. seems like a lot of pressure for it to take

@brandonswoodworks2082

7 жыл бұрын

I was going to add it but I haven't gotten around to it, thanks for the suggestion.

@jameslong5246

6 жыл бұрын

And maybe get ride of the exhaust pipe and replace it with something more substantial. You could see a huge amount of flex when you were adjusting it think what it would do actualy using it.

This video is really cool specially at 1.50x faster!!

Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a bigger drill press

@DrewLSsix

4 жыл бұрын

You go ahead Andprice a drill press With that deep of a wrote, go ahead I'll wait

@sourbrothers73

3 жыл бұрын

Some weekenders enjoy the *project,* and have scraps around from old projects. Seems to be the case here.

@phiksit

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen bench top radial arm drill presses for around $350 on sale. Even the store bought ones suffer from rigidity problems which is less if your only doing woodworking and always using sharp tooling. I'm wondering if this can drill a plumb / perpendicular / straight hole in metal?

I like music just wondering is it not too much movements here and there when you use it now?

At 0:12....good ol' computer hard drive magnets on the side of the drill!!!

I see weld failures in your future. Consider gussets on the 90* weld you made there.

i have one of these. the table/ height are not a problem. the press can only drill a depth of 2" anyways. the real problem is the strength of the motor. it cant drill a 1" hole through a 2x4 without getting stuck. my crappy corded hand drill has more power and RPM than my HF Drill Press. i don't understand why they put such crappy motors on a tool like this.

@robc8468

5 жыл бұрын

It's less than 1/6 HP despite what they claim look at the amp draw and compare it to split phase 1750 110 volt motors sold at Grainger. I got rid of my H/F 8 inch D/P a 10 inch Wen is a much better press with more power and cast iron not stamped main parts.

Hard drive magnets are the best! they are easy to obtain and super strong! do you have plans for this i would love to do this i have the same press.

@SwapPartLLC

2 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing I noticed! Some of the strongest magnets I ever had came from scrap hard drives.

This is lit!!! Perfect upgrade to extend life cycle to an artifact drill. Your video listed when I searched for "drill press throat extension", so it is exactly what needed to modify a drill press. Thanks for your time put into production of video and drill modification. As for those who don't like the accompanying music, grow up, learn to use the audio tools. mute the sound!

You Sr.... Are amazing great jon. Thank you for thinking outside the box!!!!!!!!

Did you use HF drill bits.

Muy vuena idea para mis letras this is a good idea

I too have hard drive magnets on mine lol

Great idea...

I'm not sure why you would want the drill press head to tilt. It would have been far easier to tilt the table, and that would not make the head less stable like this mod does. You could also just hinge the base of the drill press on a bench if you wanted to have it horizontal.

Ch ch *WAHHH WAHHH WAHHH WAHHH* for gods sake...

Nice tutorial on how to spend several hours making sure your drill press never drills a hole at 90° ever again. Seriously though, this was a fantastic use of all the crystal meth in whatever county you live in. Jokes aside, the basic idea you were going for isn't bad; with some proper welds, better fabricated parts, and more thought into maintaining the balance and rigidity of the structure (plus a head unit actually worth putting all the work into to begin with lol), this could be a decent way to upgrade an old machine. With some more practice, the creativity used in designing and recording this can be put towards a lot better used. Good luck, keep it up!

now all ya need to do is replace the motor cause it has no power at all , way overkill bud

Why the loud distracting music ? Just explain what you are doing and why with the real machine noise and your explanation !

The fact he didnt debur any of the metal and left it sharp bothers me.

Nice work and great problem solving hut the music made it difficult to watch. Had to mute it within the first 5 seconds of the video.

I thought this was going to be about runout...

omg you should have shown a drawing of the planned upgrade so i could have skipped this video

Thanks for sharing but all the fab work you did going into a 50 dollar sweat shop special is far not worth the time in my book. And I normally like HF tools( not after I bought a similar drill press and after 3 defects I'm fed up with them). Not to mention the motor is only 1/5hp SUPPOSIDLY and after the motor upgrade you'd have more into it than a good used press with a much more powerful motor. Awesome work man that's for certain. Nice idea for a Delta or something 😁

Would have been better with commentary and less quick edits

not really an upgrade but a custom solution.

Goodbye rigidity. Hello oversized holes. I like what you were going for and understand not having the capability or the knowledge to execute it perfectly for all these armchair machinists on KZread. If you ever get the chance to redo your design, you should go with 1/4" wall thickness tubing, less joints, even fewer adjustable joints, MIG or TIG welding and a muchuch heavier base or you could fill it with concrete or sand. If you could pull that off I think it'd surprise you how much of a difference it would be. You succeeded in making me think about some possible mods so thanks and don't put any value into non-constructive criticism from KZread douche nozzles.

I think it was pretty much covered in the comments below but that stupid music kind of screwed up the video although it wasn't that good to start with

Good quality cobalt drill set is needed here, plus better welding. Music was harder to listen to than watch a pointless modification.

Tip: We know you’re drilling 3 holes, 1/4” first then 1/2”...we don’t need to see 10 seconds for each drilling. Show the first 1/4” hole in 10 seconds, then the other 5 just show touching the bit to metal and then a sudden breakthrough. It’d be a funny, and save 50 seconds.

Stop talking about the drill head tilting,it's the only static item when working on items,the item you can/are/will be drilling is dynamic and many times is far hard to tilt/yaw/pitch so moving the head around is far better. On a different note, if you can move the head,when clamped it needs to have no movement,and I wouldn't trust that bolt on clamp due to the shyte metal used in the thing. Good idea though.

Why would anyone go to all this trouble and effort? In my area there are 2 rockwell/delta radial drill presses for sale for less than $200, ( often about $ 100, It is an odd press , limited market. ) If necessary just drive a few hundred miles and get the real thing.

great job i was waiting to see the comments on this blah blah i like the creative mindset dont listen to all these engineering masters who just watch videos all day good work my friend

@hjartland

5 жыл бұрын

And the ones who say they'd just buy a bigger press. If they don't like it. They can move on. Music was ok. I like EDM here & there.

Nice Video, Nice Music!!!!! The suspense of the transformation to what(??), was the best part! Floor mount Frankindrill Lives!

2:05 If only you had a drill press......and that music tho?

i had to put the video on mute as this music is awful. good project though

This is a good upgrade to that bench drill press. A good video, but the music ????

Cool but for the money it took to make that you could have bought a legit one.

Dude just buy a press with a tilt table no need to make some off brand star wars droid

Plus why go thru all that work with a crappy head stock?

Your music sounds better at 1.5x playback speed 😜👍🏽

Exit out right after the stupid music kicked in.

For real though, how terribly designed are those base screws? So awful to get on and take off.

Interesting video but do yourself a favor and mute the sound. Why folks making these type vids think annoying background crap is needed ......

Great job but horrible music...i had to watch it in mute.P.S. I'm a musician, for 43 yars now, keyboard player

I' d rather buy something more expensive instead of putting so much work into this cheap Harbor tool junk.

Fa abbastanza schifo!! Pensi che quelle saldature reggano?!?! E poi immagono che sia tutto perfettamente a squadra (90°).. Ma cambia hobby