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Everything You Want To Know About Drilling
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Five
Basic Drill Press Operations
The Drill
Press is an extremely versatile machine. It will help you
bore precise holes that are exactly perpendicular to your
workpiece surface or edge - or at an ensured accurate angle,
time-after-time. It's also extremely handy when you need to
bore a succession of many holes in the exact same relative
position on a series of workpieces. It's an amazing tool with
many, many work-saving applications. Let's take a look at
the basic Drill Press operations.
For more
detailed explanations of the below operations, visit our January/February,
2001 issue of Shopsmith's on-line "Hands On" Magazine.
Through
Drilling is the process of drilling a hole all the way
through a workpiece. Place a piece of scrap wood under your
workpiece to protect your worktable and set your Drill Press's
depth stop to control the depth of your hole.
Stop
Drilling is the process of drilling a hole that does NOT
go all the way through your workpiece. Set up for this process
in much the same way as for through drilling, setting your
Drill Press's depth stop to limit your hole depth.
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Angle
Drilling Use your Rip Fence as a holding jig and
a scrap block to prevent bit "wandering" while
drilling.
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Angle
Drilling is used for operations like boring screw pockets.
This is a technique that's often used to attach cabinet face
frame rails & stiles together invisibly from the back side.
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Drilling
Round Stock
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Drilling
Round Stock. Use your Drill Press's worktable and Rip
Fence to form a V-Block Jig for holding cylindrical or spindle-shaped
workpieces during boring operations.
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Jig
Drilling
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Jig
Drilling is a process whereby you build a simple jig or
fixture to hold a series of workpieces in the same position
while you bore holes in them. Jig drilling is the best way
to save time and ensure the repeatability and accuracy of
holes in repetitive drilling operations.
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Jig
Drilling
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