
At first, like most beginning hams, mounting holes in printed circuit boards, I drilled using a universal tool — drill. But as it turned out, to produce a small hole (diameter less than 3 mm) and high precision hand drill — helper bad. Broke a lot of drills and spoil a few boards came to the conclusion that technology needs to be changed and without a drill rig I can not do. When searching the shops and markets and buy for my old drill never found, decided to make a small tabletop drill press, the benefit of some of the mechanisms and materials for it were available, primarily the motor and the cartridge. Before commencing, determine what machine I need. There are two most common of their design. The first one is used to supply rotary tool to fixed on the table the workpiece. The second is when the table together with the workpiece is fed towards the cutting tool.
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