Makes for a fun toy suitable for Wood Elves. I discovered in a recent project that milling machines are super useful for woodworking. I had a hunch I could convert a cheap drill press into a crappy milling machine. I added a flea bay XY table and differentially heated the Morse Taper drill shank to get it to chooch. kinda. ✪►www.etsy.com/ca/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-them-all-cheeky-jokes◄✪
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Now all I need is a lathe. 🙃
"it's gonna squeeze it so tight you will never get the fxcker out"….. Yeh!
So let me get this right. You dicked with it only to go back to the original chuck?
I needed a way to cut dovetails in steel and living in bumfuck nowhere I don't have access to a makers space. Took apart an old drill press and noticed the spindle looks like a miniature milling machine spindle without the drawbar hole bored. So I measured the taper jt33 if I remember correctly and bought a collet set that fits jt33 to er16 (I could be off with the nomenclatures). Install everything but noticed any side load and the taper would lose its grip. I considered boring a small hole and making a small drawbar since I have a lathe but decided to thermally fit the collet holder. Threw it in the over at 550f and stuck the spindle in the freezer. Twenty minutes later fit the two and they never separated. I cut the dovetails and "milled" a handful of other parts until I finished building my mill designed to be a mill. I mean I was making relatively flat parts but nasa sure as shit wasn't asking me to make parts for them. I guess what I'm saying is it can be done but I wouldn't invest more than a hundred bucks. I got the drill press for next to nothing, collet and holders twenty bucks, the finest chineseium end mill and dove tail cutters for twenty bucks, ect. I have way more time than money so it was worth it to me and added the level of precision I needed to build a proper mill.
Ya know, I was feeling pretty down about the runout on my Chinese Porter Cable thing today but then I saw your Chinese thing and now I'm not feeling all that down anymore. You invented a runout machine! 😀
Feel dangerous, would prefer to get a mini milling machine and spending the effort to do the conversion.🤣
That setup is so gawdaweful but I love it anyways. AvE never fails to impress us
how much hp does your drillpress have
Ahhh Glenn Gould on piano !
I have come to brag about my Australian made Forbes drill press state of the art for 1972.
By gum, I got me a vertical mill this week and I didn't know it.
I didnt quite catch the brand of the min XY milling table. Cheapest I’ve found is $25US from Amz if I don’t wanna ever return it or 40ish if Prime. Can you guid me to the one you used. Thanks.
I really want to meet this guy.