Hello made an "adapter" for a Black & Decker drill stand to fit a hand powered drill . It is very safe, cheap and quiet. The downside is that both hands are needed to operate it and it can't drill big holes.
The real experts I guess wouldn't need a drill press they just drill freehand... with this contraption for me it is less of a lottery when drilling holes that need to be precise.
It was quite fiddly to make the oak adapter plate with handtools only. The holes needed to be dead on to fit and it really needed to be square in two directions.
The real experts I guess wouldn't need a drill press they just drill freehand... with this contraption for me it is less of a lottery when drilling holes that need to be precise.
It was quite fiddly to make the oak adapter plate with handtools only. The holes needed to be dead on to fit and it really needed to be square in two directions.