New accessory

[T*O*F]

I ran across this today while looking for something else.  Looks pretty neat and fairly inexpensive.  There are numerous times when your whole stock, or a barrel need to be supported on the drill press for one reason or another.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200310729_200310729

[Joey R]

Yes, this is a nifty gadget especially when working solo. I got mine at Woodcraft.

[Dean D.]

That IS nifty.   

I've been using a camera tripod, works pretty good as it has a crank to adjust the height.  Having rollers would be a great addition though.

[rsells]

Thanks a bunch for the info.  I have been trying to find something like this to help support the stock and  barrel assembly when installing the pins.  This one looks as good as any I have found, and is a bit cheaper.
                                                                          Roger Sells

[flehto]

On my free standing drill press, I bolted  a 3/4" x2'x4' reinforced piece of plywood which stays there all the time. Very handy when drilling bbl lug and RR pipe holes all in one setup.....Fred

[Swampwalker]

I've had one of these gismos on my drill press for about 3 years - it's very usefull.  My only complaint is that there is to much free space in the joints, so that with a load it shifts.  I ended up putting shims in many of the joints, which helps.  After a while you get used to it.   It is indeed very helpful supporting the ends of a rifle when drilling holes.

[Roger Fisher]

Drill press



Sorry, the devil made me do it

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Fred, I'd like to see a picture of your jig, if you please.

[flehto]

Hi...it isn't a jig just a very stiff, re-inforced piece of plywood. To driil the pin holes, the bbl and stock are clamped in a very accurate vise and the bbl  top flat is clamped on the permanent jaw. A shim towards the muzzle levels the rifle and 2 parallel clamps hold the bbl and stock  together or the RR pipe and stock at each pinhole when drilling, a pin is inserted into the driiled hole and the clamps are moved to the next pin location. Just have to slide the assembly along and all the pins are drilled w/ the same setup. Kinda crude but it's worked on many LRs....Fred

[holzwurm]

I've made a coupll of floor standing, height adjustable, supports out of iron pipe and a roller. A piece os 8" chanel about a foot long gives them plenty of stability. I use one as outfeed for my tablesaw and another as drill press support. They really are easy and cheap to make  -  probably 25-30 bucks for all of them. My floor mounted vise sets on the same kind of pipe setup bolted to the concrete floor.

Of course, if you have to pay a welder labor and shop time you're better off buying something like these at Harbour Freight, 

[J. Talbert]

My main vise is mounted on a free standing (approx. 5inch) steel pipe stand, with one of these same support gizmos mounted on the stand.  The only difference is that I replaced one of the rollers with leather padded piece of 2x2 and covered the other roller with a piece bicycle innertube.  I used a free standing, adjustable work support with the vise for years, but I seldom use it now that I have this contraption.

Works pretty darn good...

Jeff

[Eric Krewson]

After struggling with some one handed hole drilling I bough an adjustable support table at Home Depot to use with my drill press. With the cross slide vise and the support table, hole drilling is a lot easier and more precise.

[D. Taylor Sapergia]

Necessity being the mother of invention, I devised this system for supporting work for drilling in the drill press, and for work along the bench.  That's LB's Beck rifle in the vise.

[Daryl]

What a mess, Taylor.

[California Kid]

Daryl, are you one of those obsessive clean freaks? Looks pretty well clean and organized to me! Maybe your jealous of your brothers neatness! HA HA!

[Daryl]

Clean freek - me? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!