Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | Graeme, the drill press is a $169 Harbor Freight cheapie. I just use it for kind of light duty drilling. Good stuff gets done with a different machine. The press came with a kind of screwy lubrication setup. The table has a drain hole and a screw on cap to hold a plastic bottle underneath. It has a clip on the side to hold an identical bottle that has a drip hose and valve to control flow of the oil. When the top bottle gets empty and the bottom bottle gets full, you're supposed to switch bottles and go again. I hate oily messes from drilling, milling and turning, so I invested in a cold air vortex cooler. It gets moved to the machine I'm using, keeps the cutting tools cool, and gets rid of the oily mess. Vortex gun works good but it takes a bunch of air. That's the real reason for a 5HP compressor in the machine shop. The little 1.5 HP that used to get used, just couldn't keep up with the gun. It keeps the 5HP busy, but it will cycle off occasionally. |
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