Fabricators portable Drill Press

[stingraygs]

Here is my homemade Fabricator's portable drill press. I fabricate a lot of equipment attachments for my BobCat and truck, most need large holes of 1/2" or larger drilled in steel. I've used mag drills but the weight and base size often made them awkward if not impossible to get into places I need to drill. I finally threw a portable clamp-on drill press together out of junk I had laying around. A trip to the junk box found a broken Craftsman 1/2" "D" handle drill with the switch group broken off, a couple Pony 3/4" pipe clamps,2 very large hose clamps, a scrap piece of 5/16" aluminum plate and some nesting square tubing. After some quick welding, drilling and tapping, I had a multi-position (horizontal/vertical), multi-mount drill press that could be configured quickly for many field drilling jobs.

StingrayGS