One thing that’s worth mentioning as well- it’s safer, since you have a solid stop to drill against, so you don’t to worry about the drill binding up and turning your part into a propeller.

Excellent. As a hybrid woodworker/metalworker I see lots of crossover that isnt utilised. The flip stops are a great example of this. Semi-precise and perfect for many jobs. Suits practically everything woodworking and a lot of metalworking. The spinny drill thingy in the middle is genius. I have added this to my list of things to make. Number 4633 on the list. Thats pretty high all things considered.

Lovely result Tom. Serious time savings! We've all spent too much time with cold blue, calipers, squares and punches that this tool could have saved. Most jobs don't need mill-precision, and this will be perfect for those. I've seen many wooden tables and fences added to drill presses for woodworking use, but never seen one intended for metalwork. Great thinking! 💡

That is an awesome drill press table! Good work. Also I died laughing when you called them "flippy stops." I think that should be the new official name. The free spinning insert is pretty clever. I haven't seen anything like that. I'm a woodworker, so a lot of machining is fascinating at a distance. Good video. Cheers.

Some great ideas you have given us with your build Tom Love the rigidity. Thanks for sharing Cheers

Nice build, thanks Tom. Great to see the "new" mill in action!

Wow!!! Your talent and workmanship is next level. Thanks for your vid

You are a sharp thinking. Very nicely done. Thanks for the post!

fantastic ! brilliant design.. Thanks for sharing

Impressive design and results. Brilliant!

Wow, really nice video and tutorial!! Thanks for sharing!!!

very clever! Thanks for sharing this.

Really happy to see a new video from you.

This was outstanding, thank you. I need one of those now.

Great job! Thanks for the idea.

Tom you do outstanding work. And very precise .

Amazing! You managed to turn a $200 drill press to a $2000 ultra drill press 👍

Some interesting thinking in this project. And your camera and editing work is top notch, as always.

Watching this, I wish I hadn’t messed around so much during metalwork at school. 40 years later, with a career in IT, I’m interested in this stuff because it’s all so tactile and physical. Great video!

You are so clever! And you have such an amazing range of tools and machines and materials. And you know what to do the whole time and how to do it. Yes, you are sooo clever! And efficient! Thank you so much for showing us. We are forever thankful and full of admiration. You are a real Hero.

There is something so satisfying watching steel cut steel.

Hi Tom. Great upgrade for the drill. I will be doing one for my poor old drill.

“It’s really awesome.” Yes, it is. Great design. Great implementation. Subscribed for more. 👍🏻

A fine job !

very nice drill pallet, and I like the fence stops thats a great idea, simimlar to the rotating depth post on my router ...also a huge time saver.

Have been trying to figure out how to solve these very common irksome issues for years. Your collection of solutions is along the lines I was thinking, but does the job much better in each case. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and skills. Much appreciated.

Great design, thanks. By the way: I have learned at school to never ever use gloves at rotating tools, especially at a drill press. It is very dangerous for fingers and hands.

Nice project. Welcome back!

Great idea, nice project, well executed

Nice design and execution. Really well done, Bud.

Very clever and a very nice piece of work.

inventive and great video work

Excellent design work here. Thank You. I've used the drill press a lot for metal work, and often wondered why drill press tables are the way they are (lack function, and vulnerable to the drill bit as well, not good at all for clamping onto, do not collect the chips well at all, and on and on). Love the removable insert, as well as the T-slot on the side. I plan to make this or something similar for my shop as well.

What an outstanding project!!

What a brilliant setup! I bet that'll save a bunch of time in very short order

It's amazing 👍👍

Some really smart solutions implemented there! 👍🙂

Welcome back!

Good well crafted and well thought out , a definite like and sub .

a thing of beauty

Yep, I'm impressed

subscribing because I love your editing and content....cheers from Florida, USA...Paul

EXCELLENT presentation Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou..........

It took a long time to build, but the time it saves you is priceless. Excellent job!!! Glad to see a video that is not a stupid waste of time for a change. Keep up the good work!!!

well done

You’ve done to your drill press what I plan to do on my vertical bandsaw, think you could use one too!

Very cool work.

Great project! 👍 🇬🇧

Love it.

Very nice work, now I have a project for this weekend.

Dang, very impressive!

I am so making something like this once I've got our workshop's standing drill installed.

Beautiful

First time on your channel. Very good work.

Excellent workmanship...gloves and anything turning is a No No...

brilliant!

Looks like a winner

cool idea

Super DP table build Tom👍✔💯

Welcome back man

Marvelous and well thought out. Unfortunately I don’t have a mill or 90° mill head.

This was a lot of work, but you produced something extremely useful. Great video, thanks for sharing your idea.

That's really super

delightful

Very nice

Awesome build dude, there's a lot of good stuff you've implemented! Incredibly handy The spinning plug insert you mentioned will freespin once you've made contact - I imagine you'll have others with a larger bore for if you're doing large(r) diameter drilling?

good video Tom

best end to a video ever........

Awesome!

very neat!

How I would LOVE to be able to work metal (I work in wood) I would love a budget mill to learn on. You're an inspiration Tom. And you make it look SOOOOO easy that I know it isn't.😶‍🌫

That is Fu*king Awesome…👍👍

"skim off the rust and flatten it." It might have been interesting to see the plate bow when you had skinned only the one side. Then how you skinned the other and whether the plate normalized for you or not, and if not, how you proceeded to take out the bowing. I can't tell you how many times I have chased the stress from one side of a hunk of metal to the other, never quite getting 'em evened out. When I'm able to, I prefer to heat it to about 2000F in a bed of coals and let it cool slowly. Makes an enormous difference in rolled structural steels. I like what you did there. I may imitate you using Alum' Jig Plate

Great video! Curious to hear your thoughts about chemical removal of rust and mill scale before machining. For those minus a mill, perhaps a wood and hardwood plywood version to start?

I love it, one change. On your table holding bolts drill 4 holes outside your pattren to bolt it to the base parts so you can still use the clamp down holes youve lost bolting it down. Last this system is brilliant, I see an ability to add draws to the bottom to hold bits in. Nice prototype but probably better mass production would use aircraft aluminum And if you need a larger fence 8020 had larger stock that wider, in fact a t slot system could also work like a bridgport mill , you could also make 1/2 of it fold for off 90dgr holes. I like this. Where's mine?

Top job mate 👍🇦🇺

Before trying to drill a bunch of non-punched holes, I would chuck an automatic center punch into it and use the drill press to punch my four hole locations. I think this would improve accuracy.

interested if the spinny drill into thing affects how the burs are formed on the bottom edge of holes? awesome table earned a sub!

Yep, that's a sub. Very nice and concise mods. Everything you did was dying to get a spot on this video. I suppose there were others that didn't make the cut this time. As a new fabricator this is candystore level ideas.

Very neat work, I think the popper upperer is overkill as a magnet would suffice to remove the plug, unless you use a non ferrous plug, but as you say satisfying, and of course why not 😂

good job - consider cleaning rust off blanks to make your cutting edges last longer.

That’s a lot of work mate, but we’ll worth it in the end… unfortunately I don’t have the equipment to be able to make that set up, but one day maybe :) well done, that’s an amazing design…

Just an everyday joe with his simple tools and unlimited money!

Nice work. Can someone tell me what the clamps that might fit into the grooves in my drill press table in order to hold work steady are called and where I can get some?

Now do those holes with a 3mm drill... or do have long series drills for the small sizes so the chuck can clear the fence? Have you thought about sanding the rust off before machining the parts? Your tooling would last a lot longer. Same thing with using some lube and coolant. Have you thought about using wood for some of the components? Ply and MDF specifically.

Some great ideas for rough work, where precision is not that vital!

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Liked. Subbed. I'm impressed with the drill stop idea, did you come up with that for yourself or have you seen it elsewhere? I'm not planning to make such a table for myself but I think I might experiment with making just that part for my existing table. Thanks for sharing the idea. I think I will experiment with putting an old motorcycle valve spring under the spinning button so that larger diameter drill bits will be able to go all the way through the work. I'll just have to be careful to make sure the spring is wound in the correct direction so that any twisting action on it doesn't react upwards. The alignment button is similar to something I already do but I use a parallel pin and hole. Now that I have seen your idea I'm thinking an old timkin wheel bearing might be a way of accurately aligning with the chuck axis. By running the chuck and pressing down it should align to the centre of quill play. Now I'll just have to think of a way of holding the timkin cup where I need it to be... Good job Tom... you've got me thinking

What kind of spray wax do you use? Thanks - Phil

Bloody awesome Tom 👍 but what about the cup holder😁

I wish I had the space and tools to do this.

8:16 I agree.

Betcha there are tables out there costing way more than the cost to build this. I'm sharing this with the shop I used to work in. How does it travel with thicker materials, larger holes or non-square pieces?

Satisfying indeed! You can never have enough doo-dads on your drill press.

Beautiful. My drill press is 20 year old Harbor Freight garbage and needs to be replaced. Making this table would be a good reason to buy a decent drill press. No new, affordable drill presses come with these features. Well done.

Yes, but what are you gonna turn the old table into?

Oh, welcome back online, Tom! I've been missing your accent, mait)) Is it you having got some new toys (read: video equipment) or it's me who have forgotten what your videos look like?

Make more video's mate!!!

quick question, why do you need drill press when you have mill?

When drilling thin sheet steel with a conventional drill bit (twist drill) there's a real risk, when breaking through, that the drill creates a lobed hole which acts like a nut on a leadscrew with a VERY coarse helix. This can cause the workpiece to jump off the table without any provocation but extremely suddenly. The moment it gets above the level of the fence it does a lifelike impression of a rotary scythe. It happens only rarely, but that makes it all the more likely to catch people unawares. And explains why it is not a well-known contingency. I think it would be a good idea to suggest to impressionable viewers that in such cases they rig a toggle clamp to quickly hold each workpiece down. For repetition work, some sideways projecting, overhanging item, which the workpiece could easily be slid under, might be worth considering. Perhaps a piece of rod bent into a U, and then inserted in a vice with the plain legs protruding upwards, so they can be bent over at maybe 30 degrees. The result would look a bit like a ski tip. This could plug into a couple of holes equispaced in the vertical face of the fence, to straddle and surround the drill. The underside could be say 5mm above the deck, anything thicker should probably be clamped.