DIY DREMEL DRILL PRESS SKIN
It’s only the ingenue that doesn’t understand that there’s more than one way to skin a cat, that would think this particular kludge (because in no way is bolting a handful of factory components together in their intended manner a hack) offers anything more than a cringe. Add in a cheap jigsaw, a variety of hand files, and the layout tools you probably already have in your shop if you’re working metal, and you can do almost anything this can do, if you put your mind to it. Doesn’t attempt to work a feature to a precision dimension either, which is kinda the point of an actual milling machine.Ī cheap trim router and a little ingenuity would offer just as much capability in non-ferrous materials, at a fraction of the cost. He makes a couple of facing cuts, and a partial depth through slot, and calls it done. In the video itself, he doesn’t demonstrate any capability that is the hallmark of an actual ‘milling machine’. The problem with your assertion that it gives the ‘home gamer’ any more capability, is that you could get the same or more capability with an equivalent value of much more versatile tools. What it is is an (expensive) assembly of parts that doesn’t achieve anything that couldn’t be done with other tools, without the outlay of several hundred dollars for a compound table. I didn’t say anything about it being high quality. Posted in Tool Hacks Tagged AvE, drill press, harbor freight, milling, milling machine, spindle Post navigation If you do this conversion and want some practice, why not build a magnetic carabiner? We’ve seen this kind of conversion done before without the colorful language. We suspect the Harbor Freight vise might not be as good, but is the difference worth the $130 difference in price? We’d love to see it compared to a Harbor Freight milling vise. So add in the cost of the drill press, the spindle, and the mill and this is still a fair chunk of cash.
Īlthough billed as a “poor man’s” build, the XY table alone was about $200. Once it was resolved, though, he did manage to do some actual milling, accompanied by some music we wouldn’t associate with.
It sounds simple, but getting everything to work did take a few tricks, including a blow torch.Īctually, turns out the blow torch didn’t really do it, but we won’t spoil the final resolution to the problem. Essentially, he adds a spindle and an XY table to a Ryobi drill press. This isn’t a CNC mill, by the way, although we suspect you could convert it.
If you haven’t seen any of videos before, be warned: there is a little colorful language in a spot or two. did get around to it and made his usual entertaining video about it that you can see below. In theory, it seems like it ought to be easy, but we never quite get around to it. Every time we look at the little short Z axis of our CNC mill, we think about converting a drill press to a mill.
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