Miniature drill press vise

[mklotz]

Marv, wonderful as usual !
(In fact, I 'm wondering if you are presenting a liliputhian vise and drill or a giant match ???)

Thanks for the kind words but, no, it's not a Brobdingnagian match and I don't own a two foot diameter penny either. :-)

Here's a picture of the drill press with some background for scale...

and a closeup of the drive and feed mechanism. The downfeed lever works but can be disengaged so the fine feed handwheel can be used to lower the drill with finer control.

The drill press, true to the prototype, has no chuck. Rather, Morse taper drills are fitted into a matching taper machined into the spindle. The model echos this detail. Tiny drills are fitted to taper pins shaped to mimic the Morse taper end tab. The spindle on the model has a slot to which this tab is aligned when the drill is inserted. To remove the drill, the drift shown below the drill is inserted into the slot and tapped to dislodge the taper lock. I tried making the drift true to size but it was simply too difficult to operate with human fingers so I compromised and made a scale drift with a human-size handle.