What if you could convert your drill press into a mill instead? YouTuber [Small Metalworking Machines] explores this in his video, where he takes a small Central Machinery drill press and adds a ...

He did have an old bench top drill press and a lathe in his shop and thought it would be a good idea to combine them them into a DIY Milling Machine. The problem with just throwing a milling bit ...

(I still don’t know if I damaged the drill press, but a gunsmith later explained to me that it likely wasn't designed to handle the lateral pressure of using it as a milling machine.) That's ...

Which is why after just a few months of owning Other Machine Co., a start-up making ... or other hard surfaces using a variety of drill bits that can mill to the precision of 25th of a micron.

By the way, it was not easy to break it, I have been using this milling machine for more than ten years, it has worked for several hundred hours. But when I started using it instead of the press ...

the open-source Multimachine can drill press, lather and mill. It originally started as a project by Pat Delaney as a way to easily create a machine that was cheap to create and accurate enough ...