drill press

[wookie]

After a huge amount of frustration trying to drill bolts/nuts for safety wire I've decided I need a drill press.

One question...how do you clap/vise the bolts/nuts to the drill press?

for exampe, if I bought this:

Northern Industrial 5-Speed Bench Drill Press with Laser — 1/2 HP | Drill Presses | Northern Tool + Equipment

How do I hold the nuts/bolts on the drill press?

Do you just hold the nuts by hand?

[senecak19]

Return it and find someone with a Bridgeport.

[Pittenger5]

How many more things are we gonna need to safety wire? And if we were smart we'd pull the nuts and put them in a vise and drill there, but Im lazy.

[wookie]

this is as frustrating as trying to drill for safety wire

I thought I asked a pretty specific question.

[Pittenger5]

Bring the shit over my house, we'll use the vise, its easier

[Wishbone]

Use this eBay Motors: MOTORCYCLE TOOL SAFETY WIRE TWIST LOCK Nut Drill Jig (item 320247196160 end time May-08-08 13:41:41 PDT)

Then you could use a vise and regular drill.

[BLACK SQUIRREL]

Bring the shit over my house, we'll use the vise, its easier

Do you Have Lasers at your House?

[Pittenger5]

No, for my birthday I asked for frikkin sharks with lasers on their heads, but I didnt get any. Nobody loves me.

[TTD]

I have a "flat vise" that came with my drill press.

It's only about 2 inches high and it lays on the drill press platform.

Don't know where you'd buy it though...

[Degsy]

I have a "flat vise" that came with my drill press.

It's only about 2 inches high and it lays on the drill press platform.

Don't know where you'd buy it though...

Lowes have them.

[Tricky Mike]

Bring it to me if you want... we can get you all kinds of hooked up, kid. It'd be a regular Zip-Tie Alley safety wire brouhaha.

If you want to get a press and a vise, I'd highly recommend a small X-Y vise... Centering the drill with a standard drill press vise will be a huge pain in the arse. They're relatively cheap at use-enco.com. Might even find one in stock at Horror Freight, um, I mean Harbor Freight.

[wookie]

cool, thanks for the suggestions.

[BLACK SQUIRREL]

[QUOTE=trickphoto;491486]Bring it to me if you want... we can get you all kinds of hooked up, kid. It'd be a regular Zip-Tie Alley safety wire brouhaha.
[QUOTE]

Perfect,

However ,You Will first need to be cleansed in the Blood of the lamb.

[ultraTwist]

My grandfather was a mech e and a machineist. He had all these really heavy vises, clamps, v-blocks ... he used to hold things. My grandmother sold every thing when he died. You couldn't imagine how many dies and what not he had.

After a huge amount of frustration trying to drill bolts/nuts for safety wire I've decided I need a drill press.

One question...how do you clap/vise the bolts/nuts to the drill press?

for exampe, if I bought this:

Northern Industrial 5-Speed Bench Drill Press with Laser — 1/2 HP | Drill Presses | Northern Tool + Equipment

How do I hold the nuts/bolts on the drill press?

Do you just hold the nuts by hand?

[Tricky Mike]

Perfect,

However ,You Will first need to be cleansed in the Blood of the lamb.

We should plan on this one taking a little extra time, then.

[Sheppo]

Bring it to me if you want... we can get you all kinds of hooked up, kid. It'd be a regular Zip-Tie Alley safety wire brouhaha.

If you want to get a press and a vise, I'd highly recommend a small X-Y vise... Centering the drill with a standard drill press vise will be a huge pain in the arse. They're relatively cheap at use-enco.com. Might even find one in stock at Horror Freight, um, I mean Harbor Freight.

I love my x-y vise. Becareful of the chineses one's they aren't real accurate.

[Crash Dummy Denno]

Do you just hold the nuts by hand?

i mean come on people! you're all lacking!