THe idea is not to cut the vertical pipe that came with your nice drill press, but to find another pipe of identical diameter and remount the head. You make the new stand so that it sits on the plate. That way your press has two stands. Or you may have to buy another drill press and dedicate it to pinblock work. Many piano shops have done this. You also want to set up the pinblock drill press with an air gun to keep the drill bit cool - a point I cannot stress enough! Carol Beigel >From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Subject: PinBlock Drill Press >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:02:44 -0400 > >any grand). My press has a 2" throw. With a pinblock drill bit in the >chuck, >the bottom of the drill bit (tip) is about 17" above the pinblock (my 2" >travel doesn't quite reach ;-). If I cut the vertical pipe support of the >drill press as much as possible (so that the drill press body rests >directly >upon the base flange) I will lower it about 15". That still leaves the >drill >bit tip 2" from the pinblock. At best I can nick the pinblock top and wish >it would go further. > >I know this is a popular approach to this task. How has anyone else >modified >a drill press to reach down that far? Or are the incremental drill bit >sizes >available in 6" (or there abouts) lengths? > >Terry Farrell >Piano Tuning & Service >Tampa, Florida >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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