<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>   <STRONG><EM> How fast can you gitter done this way & do you think it is the same amount of time as doing it the other way? ie. on the drill press. Also, as you are pushing the quill down do you find that it wants to lift the drill press off the plank floor? Seems to me that the drill machine it self needs to have some weight to resist this phenom.</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Dale:</EM></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Right, it's not a bit (sic) cumbersome. Alignment is what it <BR>is, enhanced by the tendency of the bit to self center in the <BR>existing hole on the second pass, or on the punched dimple on <BR>the first. Anything more demonstrably illustrative would <BR>require standing at the machine and trying it for yourself. <BR>That's a much more fundamental educational experience. It's <BR>possible to screw it up, like anything else, but I've tried to <BR>make that as unlikely as possible by establishing a process <BR>that I can do reliably. Using myself as the lowest common <BR>denominator for shop machine processes seems to be a good <BR>indicator of the minimal viability of any process. <BR>Translation: if I can do it, it's easy.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's free at <A title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>