Small Drill Presses
 

Looking at drill presses for drilling my thru-holes....looked at the Ryobi at Home Depot for $99.00 and the Craftsman at Sears for $120.00. Was not crazy about the quality of the construction of either one but I guess for $100.00 plus or minus $20.00 I guess they were not too bad. Anybody own these and if so, how do you like them? Does anyone recommend another brand? The Ryobi was a 10" model, I think the Craftsman was 8" model.:huh:

I know some of you will say, "use your lathe it will give you a better thru-hole and you save $100.00" but the lathe I have is the small grizzly and I am not sure if you can thru drill with it.:huh:

I recently bought the delta 10" drill press at lowes for 99.99 and it seems better constructed than the ryobi and the craftsman I havent throug drilled on it but it looks and feels good.

We have the craftsman 9''.. we got it on close out for 59.99

it does what we need it todo

was this the one you were looking at, at sears?

Yeah ML, thats the one. You like it alright? Thanks BSpice13, I am gonna check that one at Lowes out. I guess for $100.00 you can't expect too much!:smash:

I bought the small Delta for 99 bucks . Does the job fine.

Lookin at Delta tomorrow. Thanks folks.;)

stay away from Ryobi

How come?:confused: He said curiously!:eek:

I got the Craftsman, I like it .:) johnny "the Ratt Boy

Big FISH,Craftsman $99 on sale does everthing i need to do,but i do the off drilling thing on my old lathe.

Small drill presses
 

Craftsman works just fine.

I've had the 10" delta for some years now. Still works great...

-spence

I use my Grizzly 8690 lathe for drilling the thru-wire hole. You have a little over an inch of travel, so you hit both sides twice to get starter holes, then finish up with a long bit in a hand drill. Also have the 10" delta drill press. Decent drill.

Jigman

These are the ones to get, better than anything available today.
These are the 1950's Craftsman King-Seeley drill presses.
I have 2 floor models and have had up to 3 a few times, cause I cant stop buying them :) About 350lbs each, easy to use and easy to fix.
This ones a benchtop, from 1951. 136lbs 4" travel 15" swing
A cute little guy, Id like him so hed hang with his big brothers in my shop

http://www.owwm.com/PhotoIndex/Images/124-A.jpg

Hey Krisy that's sweet! If I had my camera unpacked I'd show you a pic of a 1950's router...ALL METAL...they don't build them like that anymore.