[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 441]

Originally Posted by Pittenger5

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.

[l3uddha]

holy shit dude. i hope you really haven't been trying to drill those out till 10pm!

[35racer]

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]

Originally Posted by 35racer

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 441]

[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.

Originally Posted by 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?

[Tricky Mike]

Originally Posted by Mongoose441

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]

Originally Posted by trickphoto

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]

Originally Posted by wookie

Do you just hold the nuts by hand?

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