How to Drill a Deep Hole on a Benchtop Drill Press?
For Drilling a deep hole on a bechtop drill press, you might have needed best drilling tools for this work. Many stationary drill presses have quite a 41⁄2 " stroke, enough to drill either half a mean 5" pen blank, Naomi. But don’t rule out your benchtop drill press just yet. First, cut the pen blank into two pieces, both about 1⁄8 " longer than the 2 brass tubes you’ll later insert into the holes to be drilled. that ought to reduce your drill’s required stroke to but 3" for many pen styles. If that’s still longer than your benchtop press can handle, give the blank a lift employing a simple jig. The jig’s base thickness raises the longest piece of this blank to only below the tip of the brad-point bit. (Use a drilling bit long enough to bore through the longest piece of the blank.) An L-shaped brace not than your pen blanks attaches at 90° to the bottom . Then cut spacer blocks to stack beneath the blank. Mark a middle point on the blank end, and clamp the ...