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| Thread ID: 104651 | 2009-11-03 23:31:00 | Ideas where to buy mini drill press? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 826960 | 2009-11-03 23:31:00 | I want a small drill press I can use for PCBs, and ideas where I can get a good one? www.amazon.com This kind of thing... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 826961 | 2009-11-03 23:49:00 | Bunnings, or Mitre 10 :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 826962 | 2009-11-04 00:57:00 | Here: www.trademe.co.nz | johcar (6283) | ||
| 826963 | 2009-11-04 03:22:00 | Here are a couple more places with the same thing: www.testntools.co.nz www.powertoolcentres.co.nz A real machine tool quality high speed mini drill press would cost megabucks. I use an 'ordinary' small drill press, the sort that SuperCheap, or the hardware shops sell, run at max speed, and use a small pin-chuck to hold the drill. It's ok for one-off jobs, but not fast enough for quantity work, it's also a bit heavy as regards hand pressure, a weaker spring would be better. With these cheap machines it pays to have them demonstrated at the shop, to see how true the chuck (or the wheels on a grinder) runs with pieces of ground rod or drills of different diameter. There are a number of 'ToolShed' shops around the country that may sell what you want. http://www.thetoolshed.co.nz/ |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 826964 | 2009-11-04 03:37:00 | Dad bought one from bunnings, might of been slighty bigger but has quite slow speeds so perfect for what your doing. About $300 from memory | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 826965 | 2009-11-04 05:07:00 | Dad bought one from bunnings, might of been slighty bigger but has quite slow speeds so perfect for what your doing. About $300 from memory Slow???? Just the opposite.......... you need 20,000 - 30,000 rpm for carbide drills, though if HSS is used around 10,000 rpm. You can get away with the 5000rpm max speed of the small 5 speed pedestal drilling machines and high speed steel drills for small one off jobs. That is for drills of around 0.8mm dia. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 826966 | 2009-11-04 05:19:00 | It has the belt swap thing, I always drilled slow with it with little pressure. found it better on delicate things | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 826967 | 2009-11-04 05:20:00 | For 0.8 mm drills, 10,000 rpm is slow | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 826968 | 2009-11-04 06:12:00 | Here: www.trademe.co.nz Here are a couple more places with the same thing: www.testntools.co.nz These look good but I think I might have confused everyone (and myself) Those are just the press and don't include the actual dremel tool/motor device. I would need the tool as well as I don't have one of those either. I know my original link on Amazon linked to the same thing but I was only going by the picture and didn't notice that it didn't include the tool either. Nor does the one that Mitre 10 sells. I might just keep using my pin vice for now... it's worked well so far even if it is probably the slowest possible method! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 826969 | 2009-11-04 06:25:00 | I bought an el cheapo "Superworks" Dremel look-alike high speed hand held drill/grinder from SuperCheap Auto a few years ago. It was $30. It may fit a Dremel drill press, if so it would be a cheaper way to go. The collet size is a bit bigger than Dremel use, and I had to make up a split thin walled sleeve in order to use a Dremel collet. It came with a flexible drive which is useful, and a sort of stand. All in all a very useful tool. It can even be used to sharpen those pruning saws that have the teeth ground within the thickness of the blade, the type that dont have any 'set' as such to the teeth. |
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