#DRILL PRESS DEPTH GAUGE HOW TO#

Other drill press mods- I'm waiting for a manufacturer to make me an offer I can't refuse, especially in regards to my 'Easy Lift / Easy Lock / Perm-Align Drill Press Table' Seriously, it only takes one finger to lift (don't need no steenkeeng motor!). in the hole first to protect the rod's threads, then insert the set screw and tighten it until you have the right amount of friction so the nut won't spin on its own. Insert a space ball, a piece leather, a piece of UHMW-PE, or other plastic, etc. Drill and tap a small hole for a small set screw though one edge of the nut. Once it is seated it works fine.Īnother option (slower, requires you rotate the nut)- get a large nut with threads of the correct pitch. A flat ground into one side of the rod for the measurement tape reduces the amount of threads engaged by the lock and the spring is a little weak. I don't like the stop collar/rod that came on my Delta- if I'm not paying close enough attention sometimes it doesn't seat firmly in the thread or in the correct thread. If you simply fold the masking tape back onto itself then the resulting tab can be used to easily tear the tape off when you are finished, which makes for a minimum of time spent on setup and tear down when using masking tape. A couple pieces of masking tape, one piece wrapped or folded immediately above the upper nut and the other below the lower nut will likely prove adequate to resist any significant rotation of the nut provided that we are only needing to resist vibration induced drift and not some form of mechanical interference forcing the nuts to spin. However, if we recognize that the fundamental problem is that there is nothing to interfere with the nuts spinning freely on the bolt threads then another solution can present itself. But neither of these approaches will be as reliable as the two wrench solution. You could also try replacing the more accessible (upper?) nut with a good quality wing nut so that you can manually tighten it further without tools. However, you could try placing a split washer between the nuts to store some force in its spring to see if your finger tightening allows enough stored compressive force to resist movement (I'm not optimistic). Without this compressive force the nuts will simply spin together as if they were a single nut. There isn't really a no-tool solution to a double-nut locknut arrangement that does not include the use of wrenches as the way this works is to tighten the two nuts until they are literally pinching the threads with enough force that the friction effectively locks the nuts in place (which is highly effective).

I've already given them a severe scolding but they don't seem to be listening.

#DRILL PRESS DEPTH GAUGE HOW TO#

If that's the case, anyone have any ideas how to make my press depth stop nuts behave themselves. I'm assuming that the nuts in the videos stayed put. Tonight, I was watching some woodworking videos and saw the craftsmen simply spin the two nuts until they touched each other. That usually keeps them from drifting, but I've developed a healthy amount of paranoia and I'm constantly checking the nuts to be sure they are still tight together.

The only way to stop it is to use two wrenches and really tighten them together hard. On mine, the two nuts constantly drift upward on the threaded shaft, causing the holes to be too deep. The Shop Fox uses the two nut system that many drill presses use, and many people seem to like. In my work, I have to drill many holes of consistent depth and an accurate depth stop is important to me. I've had it for 10 years and it has served me well.except for the depth stop. I have a Shop Fox Floor Model Radial drill press.

Drill press depth gauge