Lathe drilling from the toolpost.

[olderdan]

Nice one Tony, I like the way you have made it so versatile with the collet options.
I sometimes use my live spindle in this mode or run it when using very small drills, my lathe is flat belt drive with plain bearings so I tend to keep speeds on the low side.
I used to operate a Colchester 2000 and that came with a crosslide attachment for power feed drilling which I used a lot, drills used were anything up to 3 inch dia, the other turners said they had never seen it used but never took it up.