Drill Press Mod...

[PipesByDesign]

Anyone know of a kit for making a bench drill press taller?

[baweaverpipes]

Steroids.

[baweaverpipes]

Stilts.

[baweaverpipes]

Add a 4x4 to the base.

[baweaverpipes]

Lower the floor.

[TRS]

Viagra.

[KurtHuhn]

Viagra.

Anyone know of a kit for making a bench drill press taller?

The long answer is - there's no such thing. To get a bigger drill press, you need to... get a bigger drill press.

[DMI]

If you have a press like this without the ratchet mechanism for the table you can fit a longer tube.



David

[wdteipen]

Harbor Freight carries a drill press stretcher. Just ask them and they will direct you to it.

[Massis]

The long answer is - there's no such thing. To get a bigger drill press, you need to... get a bigger drill press.

Not entirely correct Kurt, I bought a Quantum drill press (the B16 model) last year, but found the column wasn't high enough to use a decent vice and still have room for a spade bit.

I sent out the column, which was pressed into a mount with 3 holes (to screw the entire thing to the base of the drill press), to a friend of mine. He sent it along with one of his industrial orders and had the mount removed.
He then had the mount pressed onto a new column which is about 30cm (1ft) heigher than the old one.

Result: I now have a drill press 30cm heigher than the original model. The only thing it cost me was another yellow adjustment ring which moves the entire ratches system up and down the column.



dual adjustment rings:



But for normal people without fancy industrial machinery, it's impossible...

[KurtHuhn]

But for normal people without fancy industrial machinery, it's impossible...

We can't even get folks to buy a lathe around here.

[Massis]

But for normal people without fancy industrial machinery, it's impossible...

We can't even get folks to buy a lathe around here.

I know, I'm one of them "folks", which is why I contacted someone who DOES have money to mod my drill press...