Drilling perfectly centred holes using a Drill Press?
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2019
- In this video I'll show you how you can avoid having to buy a lathe for more than 27 years straight. Although I would not recommend that.
The trick is to use your drill press basically like a metal lathe, by chucking up your workpiece in the drill chuck and using the drill press vise like a lathe's tailstock.
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Great tip . Let another grandfather share a slightly different method . Put the drill for the hole size in the vise , chuck a smaller drill in the press , lower the chuck , or raise the table, move the vise until the two drill points meet and you are centered . Takes a little longer , but no stress on the drill in the vise . Thanks for this tip from a 75 year old grandpa .
This is a brilliant method! Thanks.
Your grandfather showed you a great trick. You can upgrade it by using the drill chuck to perfectly align the drill bit in the clamp before securing it in place. Love your videos.... you are one very smart guy
Simple, effective and annoyingly obvious after hearing this gem. Thanks Cosmas... This is very useful!
Absolutely brilliant ! I served an engineering apprenticeship and no-one ever taught us that trick: probably because a lathe would have been available some where. I'm almost 3 times older than you and I STILL don't have a lathe ... ;-(
As long as you need a through hole, for a small part like that I’ve always done it in the opposite direction... chuck the part in the drill, lower it to the vise, lock the head of the bolt (in this case) in the vise and lock down the vice to the drill press table. Release the chuck, mount the smaller drill bit and drill through. Flip the part, re-center it with the small drill in the chuck (insuring a parallel hole to the length of the bolt), mount the larger drill bit and drill to the depth required. With my 70-year-old eyes and hands it’s the only way I can insure a straight hole! If you don’t need the through hole then ignore this idea. Like your videos. Please keep them coming!
Hard to Chuck 1” stock
Awesome Cosmas! Thank you for sharing.
Very impressive !! I gave this a shot and am amazed at how well it works with very minimal set up.Thank you for sharing!
I just felt my life change, thanks Cosmas.
50 thumbs up from beginner manual lathe / drill press operator on limited budget!! Bauer you are a true artist! Your Grand-Dad would be so proud of you.
Man, am I happy to see this video! Thanks Cosmas.
Wow…. I would have never guessed. When you put the bolt in the chuck, I had the ah ha moment. Im gonna try it today!!!! Thank you!!!
Wonderful technique. Thanks for sharing!
Neat trick Cosmas! Thank you for sharing it with us.👌👍😎JP
Now that's thinking outside the box. Great tip.
Very clever. Kudos for remembering your grandfather’s tips and teachings!
This helped me so much, literally the exact kind of part I'm making as an adapter. Thanks for the video!
Clever man, your grandfather!
Thanks for showing how and sharing that, well done!
That was awesome, never ever would I have thought of that.
Wow, very interesting! Thanks for passing on your grandfather's wisdom. My grandfather taught me his method for eating peas. He would say, "I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life. It makes my peas taste funny, but it keeps 'em on my knife." :)
Totally worthwhile video, thank you!
Cosmas, I am a little older than you and I had not seen this done before. Thanks for sharing!!!
Everydays a learning day, I appreciate this
Very clever. I am shre your Grandfather was proud of you. I love your videos! Keep them coming.
Great video and good usable information delivered quickly. Thumbs up.
Never doubt your Opa!
Amazing! I was saying all kinds of terrible negative things during thee video.
"This is BS!" (at minimum) I still can't imagine how this works so perfectly
Great tip. Thank you. 😁✌🖖
Brilliant....I’m going to try it now.
So simple and yet just Genious!
Very useful to know. Greetings from California. Enjoy your videos.
Cool! I had to drill a hole in an ABS end cap, and as it turns out, it's a slip-fit over my drill press chuck, so, with your trick, I got a perfectly centered hole. Thanks for the handy tip. I love CZcams!
Thanks for sharing your GP's knowledge. You best be doing something about that lathe issue :)
Cheers
a very useful genius tip... fantastic
The exact solution to a task I'm working on. Thanks
Great tip. Thanks to you and your grandfather!
lol, Like it. Will remember this - so obviously simple that it's over looked. Top marks.
Thanks for the information. Seems like a very hassle free method.
Pretty clever, thanks for sharing
As always genius!
Fabulous. Thanks for that tip.
Very well done.
That's a pretty cool trick.
Great, I'm having to do this tomorrow.
Awesome tip. Thank you! :)
Excellent , Thank you.
Very interesting, and very clever.
Thank you, for your grandfather's solution to my problem!
5 thumbs down from lathe salespeople
12 now but 1 more up from me.
😂😂😂😂😂
This is a very light vice. I need one like this.
Great trick thank you
Proper clever that is.
I never tire of these simple solutions that ebb and flow through our consciousness. Thanks for reminding us of this one.
Question: what brand is your drill press chuck? I need a new one and would like to find a the best one possible. Yours seems to have hand and mechanical tightening, which would be . great for mine as well.
Thank you!
Thanks. You make my day.🙂👍👍👍
Very interesting project. Thanks for sharing. Now you can make threads in the hole and put a threaded rod in it, or a another metric screw/bold.
this is a very good way to make a perfect center hole with minimal tools
Nice usefull trick, thank you
Thank you for sharing.
If its not perfectly centered? How does it find center when you make that first pilot hole? What am I missing?
very cool trick.
Very clever thanks
Thank you!
My German friend,you have made my life so much easier, thank you for this ,you've no idea how frustrated I was wondering why the fuck I couldn't get a centered hole but now I don't even have to look,god bless you brother n Much love n respect from Dublin, Ireland 👍
That drill chuck looks awesome, did it came with drill or is it an upgrade? Looks like an Albrecht
Nice video.. But the drill bit has to be perfect virticall right?
CLUTCH!
0:44 “still don’t own a lathe at almost 27 years old” 😂. Me neither, and I get by without one, just make do with a pillar drill and a good engineers vice.
Oooooo that's clever !!
Thank you. Just found a solution to a problem I was having with a spray gun tip...
Wow. I've tried this three times and I still can't get my through-hole to center. Seems very centered at the starting point but wanders off-center by the time the drill has made its way through the piece. I even took the step of chucking the drill in the press (backwards) before I locked it in the vice. What am I doing wrong? Does the vice need to be free-floating?
I don't understand. The very first center hole that you drilled you didn't get it in the exact center of the work piece. So then how is the hole going to end up being in the exact center of the workpiece?
Nice one
How do you ensure the drill bit is perpendicular?
OK, I learned something. You got me there. But what is this hex bolt with a through-hole in it useful for I wonder?
Could use for many things but that's now really the point. It's showing how to do something that otherwise can be difficult, cost more money and even know simple, can cause a lot of inconsistency and problems if your trying to center and drill out or really a cool ass trick. The point was never a screw/bolt, that just a demo and this method can help in many ways. Which you said you learned something. I know I did. This comment is not meant to dickish in anyway BTW. I'm a super newb at this and landed on some pretty hard times. Definitely helps with some side projects. Stay blessed 👍
I don’t even do any metal work or engineering, but even I thought that was very clever.
Excelente
who knew you could drill up
Neat!
I have a lathe and still liked it
Grandpa rules, thanks for listening to him
Yes, that is a good idea to switch position of drill and part for drilling (screw) to avoid bending of drill. But what I still see like problem is to find centre of screw. You made it well. But in fact it was coincidence or your finesse , I would say... Am I right?
Why has it taken YT 2 years of delay to provide further proof of the power of inherited DNA and the deep end of the gene pool? Always enjoyed watching the cleverness of you, Cosmas and now also your GP.
Better use this social media fortune that you’ve earned to get a decent Bridgeport (or modern equivalent)……!
Thanks again!
And greetings from the south western corner of Australia.
Ok but now how do I center the drill press over a work piece that won't fit in the chuck?
Excellent! Now I just have to get a more accurate drill press. The Ryobi I have has a one-piece shank and arbor. It is inaccurately made, and cannot be changed or altered easily. Ugh…
Great video... one suggestion, though... get a lapel mic, your audio is hard to listen to when you are speaking in the shop.
Could someone explain again why it doesn't matter whether the drill is exactly in the center? I didn't understand the reason why the hole will be in the middle anyways.
Comas bauer please building and shooting the slingshot crossbow still ball video please!!!
Thank you (and thank your Grandfather).
It would be a very interesting video if you actually showed an imperfectly sharpened drill bit actually moving your workpiece (self centering) like you said to illustrate that this would actually happen. Love your videos Cosmas! Keep them coming!
Nice job and excellent idea. Don’t worry about any negative comments from some folks. They are wanna-be’ s that can’t probably do anything mechanical.
I whish i knew this trick before i bought a lathe.
I'm more interested in what this part is for. Hex head on something with no threads is puzzling to say the least.
It was probably just to demonstrate the procedure. Not everything has to have a purpose
Who the hell thought this WASN'T a good tip?
Lathe manufacturers.
Yeah, probably. haha.
Few questions I hope you or someone here can answer.
1. Will this work on any length material, like 30cm long?
2. Does the material have to be PERFECTLY straight. I have a metal rod, i mean its straight, but not PERFECTLY straight.
3. Does the drill bit at the bottom have to be PERFECTLY perpendicular in the vice?
1. You have a drill bit 30cm long? Or at least one 15cm and go from both ends hoping to meet in the middle? I know, dad always said don't answer a question with a question. This was two questions...
2. How do you expect to get a hole straight through a workpiece that is not "PERFECTLY" STRAIGHT? A rubber drill bit? Two more questions.
3. Yes. And that's "vise". Drinking is a "vice". So is smoking, gambling and running around. A PERFECTLY straight answer.
Interesting. But it would seem that the drill bit would need to be accurately plumb to maintain an accurate hole size.
I was thinking the same thing, but I suspect that as the chuck is turning, it will accuratly locate the drill bit (making it plumb), overpowering the vice grip.
Drill bits generally aren't rigid enough to cut a significantly larger diameter hole by misalignment. The shaft will bend, and the part inside the hole will be straight. That's why when you chuck up a drill bit you're supposed to have some of the shaft without flutes exposed because this part isn't hardened and can bend without snapping. You face the exact same situation using a drill press the 'conventional' way. If you need a perfectly accurate finished hole size you use an undersized drill bit and then a reamer to get it to the final dimension.
I’m almost 30 and still no lathe😞
Just got an 8” jointer though 😁
Alex Van Nostrand I’m nearly 59 and haven’t got either a lathe or a jointer.
@@markharris5771 I'm already 59 and neither lathe nor jointer
I'm 68 and I'm building mine. 😸
How is this "perfectly" centered if you're eyeballing it? Honest question. Am I missing something here?
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Ive used this trick since I was a kid. Dont remember who taught me though.. Its not something I do on a daily basis but its a handy thing to know. Its also quite amusing to see the initial reaction in peoples faces then you make a setup like this "Emh... I thought you knew what you are doing, im just pushing papers and even i know its the other way around dumbfuck" 😂
Gods bless your grandfather
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what kind of monster doesn't have a lathe