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Hi all,
After seeing some of the great looking drill press tables some of you have built, It inspired me to finally make my own.
I used a piece of 3/4 melamine covered shelving glued to 3/4 Baltic birch plywood to get a 1 1/2" thick table. This is wrapped with RO for a border. Total is 31" long X 20" wide. The fence is Baltic birch with a t-track and two flip stops. The hardware is from Rockler.
With this fence I could no longer use the crank to lower/raise the table, but luckily I found that setting a 1/8 steel dowel on the crank shaft flat was a perfect fit to act as a " Dutchman" so a 9/16 socket / ratchet could be used to move the table. The 9/16 socket is a friction fit and stays on the crank shaft.
For drill bit storage I built a small cabinet mounted to the mobile base.
Thanks for looking
Jim
After seeing some of the great looking drill press tables some of you have built, It inspired me to finally make my own.
I used a piece of 3/4 melamine covered shelving glued to 3/4 Baltic birch plywood to get a 1 1/2" thick table. This is wrapped with RO for a border. Total is 31" long X 20" wide. The fence is Baltic birch with a t-track and two flip stops. The hardware is from Rockler.
With this fence I could no longer use the crank to lower/raise the table, but luckily I found that setting a 1/8 steel dowel on the crank shaft flat was a perfect fit to act as a " Dutchman" so a 9/16 socket / ratchet could be used to move the table. The 9/16 socket is a friction fit and stays on the crank shaft.
For drill bit storage I built a small cabinet mounted to the mobile base.
Thanks for looking
Jim