It does not always make sense or expediency to buy a factory-made drilling machine. You can make a vertical drilling machine from a drill with your own hands. To do this you will need a drill and materials to make a stand. Such equipment is recommended for use in home workshops or garages, when drilling is not the main operation or is performed quite rarely and the accuracy of the hole can be neglected.
To speed up the process, just buy a specialized stand for a drill at a tool store. The result is something like a household level vertical drilling machine, which is not inferior in drilling accuracy to machines for home workshops.
The photo shows factory-made drill stands. They can be purchased at any online tool store at prices starting from $200.
The article is intended to give you ideas on how to make a drilling machine yourself from a drill, so we do not give a clear algorithm for its manufacture, because it is made from scrap materials: some craftsmen will have it, others will not. Therefore, we give basic ideas, and everyone will apply their own constructive solutions and make your own vertical homemade drilling machine.
If you are not looking for easy ways, then we will make a homemade stand. The stand can be made of wood or metal. Wood will be cheaper and easier to manufacture, but durability will suffer.
Metal ones are more complex, but have an incomparably longer service life and strength characteristics. The choice of stand material also depends on the workpieces being processed: when constantly drilling metal, it is better to make a metal one.
Machine assembly
Metal racks are assembled from corners for the carriage, square pipe 50x50 for the stand and 10x10 for the drill bracket, strip for the base and lugs. The base and bracket are welded, after which all elements are assembled and bolted together. It is recommended to make several brackets with different adapters (clamping rings) for different types drills. The carriage moves along the rod using a steel cable wound around the handle drum. To ensure that the carriage does not have any play and does not fall down under its own weight, it is drilled, threaded and a bolt (or several bolts) is tightened. This selects the backlash between the carriage and the stand of the future drilling machine. The handle for moving the carriage is made from rolled products with a diameter of 6 - 8 mm.
Having several brackets with different clamping rings allows you to flexibly select drills and process almost any material.
In future homemade equipment you can modernize and modify it, for example, mark or install a scale that will indicate the length of movement of the carriage. This helps when drilling blind holes.
There are several mounting methods:
- several clamps;
- on a metal bracket in the hole under the neck of the drill.
Video of a design version of a drill on a wooden stand.
The easiest way to make a homemade drilling structure at home
A homemade drilling machine made from a drill will never replace a factory one and will always be inferior in build quality and drilling accuracy. The main advantage of homemade is low price, the ability to drill holes when the factory machine is not available for one reason or another.
Using a conventional hand drill, it is almost impossible to manually drill a strictly perpendicular hole in a thick block or perform a series of precise parallel drillings. Buying even an inexpensive drilling machine for this purpose is extremely wasteful if similar work is episodic in nature.
Exist special devices for factory-made electric drills, expanding their capabilities in this regard. Click on the small pictures on the right to view them in more detail.
Their use allows you to turn a drill into a kind of drilling machine. Of course, you can get one of these devices by choosing it for your tool, but you can make a drilling machine from a drill with your own hands. Let's consider several approaches to solving this problem.
Do-it-yourself drilling machine from a drill, drawings
Detailed drawings of such a device cannot be found even on the Internet. This is partly explained by the multiplicity of approaches and technical solutions, and partly by the simplicity and availability of methods for solving this problem. Let's analyze those that we managed to find.
This one is perhaps the most detailed and detailed. The main advantage of this arrangement is the absence of any gear pairs that ensure vertical movement of the drill along the stand, which is the basis of the device. The spring-loaded holder moves along the stand by the distance between it and the lower stop, minus the thickness of the compressed spring. To prevent its rotation in the horizontal plane, there is obviously a groove in the rack along which the screw 16 moves. The location of the tool in the holder is determined based on the parameters of a particular drill.
Even easier to implement on your own is a drawing of a wooden stand for a drill.
Not all sizes are shown on it, due to the fact that they are not of fundamental importance. And the lever feed system, as in the previous case, will ensure strictly parallel movement of the electric drill along the rack. Holding the tool in the upper position is achieved due to friction forces in the grooves and on the side cheeks of the holder and is regulated by the tightening force of the screws.
If you have a spare pair of screws, perhaps from an old vice, it can also be used for the tool feed system in a homemade electric drill stand.
For small drills, you can also use a regular threaded rod Ø 16-20 mm with a corresponding widened nut, which are sold in hardware stores.
Simple designs of homemade stands for a drilling machine
We have selected for you easy-to-make, but in our opinion interesting designs of stands for homemade drilling machines based on an electric drill.
Such wooden stand can function successfully without a lever, and the tool is raised and lowered either by the handle of the tool itself, or by the upper part of the box in which it is secured.
An interesting design in which a system of 2 levers is replaced by 1 longitudinal groove, along which the thrust screw moves.
A productive method is to combine materials for stands to turn an electric drill into a drilling machine. Thus, the main material for their manufacture is wood, but the most wearable components are made of metal, which radically extends the service life of the entire device.
An interesting design using industrially produced furniture runners as guides:
The high precision of their execution has virtually no backlash.
The process of creating a stand for an electric drill is greatly simplified if you have a photo enlarger of any model at your disposal. It is unlikely that it will ever be able to serve you for its intended purpose, but it will make an excellent drilling machine. After all, it already has in its design both guides and a gear rack for moving a rather heavy head along them, instead of which a holder for a drill should be hung.
No less productive is the option of converting old Volgov or Zhiguli rack jacks into a drilling machine rack. After all, you don’t need their entire height to normal operation such a device, but only a small space of a screw.
To do this, you just need to slightly modify the lifting lever, in which to secure the drill, and the thrust pad.
And here is the video:
You can do it even simpler by rigidly securing the drill to the top of such a jack, and placing a work table on the lever. Do not lower the drill for drilling, but lift the workpiece itself, especially since the lower part of the screw in such jacks is the least worn.
And in general, the same principle can be applied to quite large and powerful drills, securely fixed in any way on a powerful rack of the future machine, motionless. And make a small one lifting table can be in the image and likeness shown in the video:
Or use a small diamond-shaped car jack for the same purpose, providing it with a reliable base and replacing the upper stop with a working platform with a vise or a prism.
Moreover, both the first and second can be made removable, and in long time intervals between drilling work the jack itself can be used for its intended purpose.
More powerful drill press designs
And yet, when we talk about a drilling machine, we mean something more thorough than described in the previous section, and the material for such devices should be metal, even if we are talking about very small machines for low-power power tools, like this one:
And even such a primitive design significantly expands the capabilities of a hand drill. But how to make an almost full-fledged drilling machine with your own hands, without using complex technical solutions for this? Of the simplest, the most reliable design seems to us to be this:
Its biggest disadvantage is the ability to freely rotate the holder, and with it the drill, around the stand, but if instead round pipes If you use square or rectangular ones, this drawback will be eliminated. The main thing: very carefully select the size of the gaps between the stand and the movable bushing of the drill holder frame.
A slightly different, but no more complex technical solution for feeding the tool to the part being drilled was implemented by a home craftsman from the video:
In conclusion, about choosing a drill
If you are just planning to select a specific drill model with the possibility of using it in conjunction with the device, the designs of which we described above, then:
1. Give preference to a tool with a power of at least 1 kW.
2. Choose a model with a removable handle, secured with a circular clip around the girth. They have a convenient wide cylindrical part on the body for mounting in a holder.
3. Choose a tool that has multiple speeds or smooth speed control.
4. The button on your drill must have a lock in the on position.
5. It is better to connect the drill on the stand to the network through a socket or extension cord that has a power button, and firmly fix it on the frame in a place convenient for emergency shutdown.
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Drill is multifunctional tool, but in human hands it is difficult to obtain special drilling accuracy from it. A do-it-yourself drilling machine from a drill according to the proposed drawings may come in handy. If the drill is an everyday tool, it can be secured to the bracket with clamps. When a power tool is included in a permanent composition, the ballast assembly of the machine can be removed.
When is a drilling machine needed?
The drill press is used by those who create homemade items. They are made with imagination; it is difficult to find the necessary parts in the store and the meaning is lost. Craftsmen love to create everything themselves. Often such a craftsman is faced with the question of the accuracy of the holes that he must drill. Everyone knows that there is no way to accurately perform work under a canopy or on your knees. You will need a holder to secure the tool with the equipment.
Which drill to use depends on the nature of the craftsman’s hobby. The production of electronic circuit boards for radio amateurs requires a drill cross-section of 0.3 mm, manually at the slightest deviation from right angle the drill will burst. Only a small drilling machine will save the situation, but it is expensive. There is only one way out - to do it yourself.
On your own machine, created from scrap materials, you can:
- make through and blind holes;
- drill a centered perpendicular hole in a thin workpiece;
- cut a hole or tap a thread.
Main parts of drilling machine
The machine is a drilling machine, which means it is assumed to use a drill assembled with or a quick-clamping one. The tool must be mounted securely vertical rack and have freedom of movement up and down. The stand must be installed vertically and secured to a massive plate underneath, which is called the frame. The tool is simple to describe, but in order to achieve precision in performing operations, it is necessary to create a well-calibrated design. In special publications and the Internet you can find drawings of a drilling machine from a drill with your own hands from various materials.
Any tool created according to company standards is equipped with safety elements - protective screens, locks against accidental activation. When creating your tool, you need to take care of protection and take measures so that the machine does not fall into the hands of children.
Drilling is accompanied by strong vibration. Small shocks destroy the structure of materials; precise execution of operations cannot be achieved. Vibration is dampened by soft pads, which are mounted in places where the tool is attached, and a massive frame - vibration waves are dampened. Poor assembly, misalignment, and a shift in the center of gravity contribute to slight trembling of the instrument. All moving parts of a homemade drilling machine from a drill fit seamlessly, with minimal gaps. 
We build a drilling machine according to drawings
To help the master who is building a drilling machine from a drill for the first time with his own hands, drawings are offered. Assemble the structure from wooden blocks and use furniture board Any person with basic carpentry skills can use the frame. The wooden structure is fastened with self-tapping screws. 
Corners are used to fasten elements. The drill attachment unit can be made dismountable, on removable clamps, or the tool can be firmly built in. An important part of the device will be a movable sled device, along which the drill with drill moves during operation. Often, furniture telescopic guides are used to create runners. It is simply and clearly shown how to assemble a drilling machine with your own hands in the video:
The proposed option is universal and works equally well with metal, wood and other materials. But it is cumbersome and for small operations craftsmen make miniature machines using a tripod from a photo enlarger and a welded frame. In some cases, the steering column from the car is used. Metal frame structures require metalworking skills. How to make a drilling machine is decided depending on the availability of available parts and the purpose of the device.
An example of a completely unusual design small device For radio technicians, a machine made from an old school microscope and a UAZ car windshield wiper motor will serve. The engine produces a lot of torque, but to use it you will need to lengthen the shaft. Its power and torque are sufficient to drill through foil-thin sheets of metal. The bracket itself needs modification - the fine adjustment and microscopic unit are removed and a miniature engine is mounted.
Fundamental points of working on a drilling machine
A newly manufactured machine requires additional adjustment. A trial switch-on is carried out on a table where all irrelevant items have been removed. The machine is considered to be correctly assembled and ready for further work, If:
- the drill rotates along the axis without creating expanding sectors through rapid rotation;
- the drill lowered down must fit exactly into the recess or designated point on the frame;
- the movement of the drill on the slide is adjusted tightly, but without jamming or jerking;
- A special substrate has been prepared for through holes so as not to damage the frame.
When drilling, remember to heat up the device, periodically lift the equipment when deep drilling, liquid can be used for cooling.
You should always remember that high-speed cutting tools are a source of increased danger. Changeover can only be carried out on de-energized equipment. Eyes should always be protected with goggles.
A selection of various drilling machines, created by the hands of masters, for all occasions confirms inexhaustible ingenuity craftsmen. You can buy everything in a store, but creating your own instrument is worthy of a master.
One of the options for a drilling machine from a drill - video
Drilling work is not particularly difficult and often does not require other equipment other than conventional drill. Therefore, home workshops may not have a drilling machine. However, if you have a home-made benchtop drilling machine, you can breathe a sigh of relief, as some of your worries will be resolved on their own.
Purpose of the drilling machine
Sometimes situations occur when electrical or hand drill is not able to provide the desired parameters of the drilled hole. Often in amateur radio practice it is necessary to make printed circuit boards, where many holes must be drilled that have a small diameter. Drilling holes with a diameter of 0.5-1 millimeter with a hand or electric drill or a large drilling machine is inconvenient, and the drill may break.
Purchasing industrial drilling machines is not always economically feasible, and then you can make a homemade drilling machine. Many people choose mini drilling machines, because, despite the apparent complexity of the design, they are actually very simple equipment and consist of four parts.
A homemade drilling machine is intended for drilling through and blind holes in solid material, for example, drilling, reaming, countersinking, cutting out sheet materials discs and internal thread cutting. Drilling and milling machines can perform milling, surface grinding, inclined face milling and horizontal milling.
To perform the above operations, a countersink, drill, tap, reamer and other tools are used. Using special devices and additional tools, you can cut a hole with a large diameter, bore the hole and grind the hole accurately.
Types of drilling machines
Drilling machines There are the following types: single- and multi-spindle semiautomatic machines, vertical drilling machines, jig boring machines, radial drilling machines, horizontal boring machines, horizontal boring machines, diamond boring machines. Models are designated by numbers and letters. The first number indicates the group to which the machine is classified, the second - the type of machine, the third and fourth - the dimensions of the machine or the dimensions of the workpiece being processed.
The letter that appears after the first digit means that a certain model of drilling machine is modernized. If the letter is located at the end, then it should be understood that a different drilling machine was made based on the main model. Among all drilling machines, we can distinguish the following main types of universal machines: multi- and single-spindle, radial and horizontal drilling.
Depending on the area of use, there are special and universal drilling equipment. Specialized machines for mass production and large-scale industry are also widely used, which are manufactured on the basis of universal machines by equipping them with multi-spindle thread-cutting and drilling heads and thanks to the automation of the work cycle.
Drilling machine design
A drilling machine, like other technological machines, consists of the following components: transmission mechanism, engine, controls and working element. The transmission mechanism is designed to transmit movement from an electric motor to a working element, which is a drill, which is mounted in a chuck mounted on a spindle - a rotating shaft.
Rotation to the spindle from an electric motor is transmitted using a belt drive. By turning the handle, the chuck and drill bits can be lowered or raised using a rack and pinion drive.
On the front panel of the drilling machine there are buttons to turn the electric motor off and on. The design of the drilling machine is quite simple: the machine is turned on by pressing one of the outer buttons, depending on the right direction spindle rotation, you can turn off the machine by pressing the middle red button.
A vertical column screw is fixedly attached to the base of the machine. By turning the handle, you can move the spindle head up or down along the screw; the second handle serves to fix it in the required position. Control the depth of blind holes using the provided scale.
Depending on the workpiece material, different drilling speeds are required. To do this, it is customary to set a certain spindle rotation speed by throwing a belt drive onto pulleys of various diameters. Factory workshops use more than complex circuits drilling machines than were just discussed.
Operating principle of the machine
Before drilling using a homemade machine, you need to remove all unnecessary things from the workbench. The workpiece with the marked centers of the holes must be secured in a vice. Next, insert the drill required diameter into the cartridge and secured with a special key. To check the correctness of the work performed, the machine is turned on for a while.
If you have installed the drill correctly, its tip will not describe a circle when rotating. If it is installed skewed and its beating occurs, then the drilling machine must be turned off and the drill secured according to the instructions of the drilling machine. Then turn the feed handle, lower the drill and install the vice with the workpiece in such a way that the core coincides with the tip of the drill.
Turn on the machine and drill a hole, press the feed handle smoothly, without much effort or jerking. When drilling through hole place the workpiece on wooden block so that the drill does not break and the machine table does not deteriorate.
When drilling a deep hole, remove the drill from the hole from time to time and cool it by dipping it in a bowl of coolant. It is recommended to reduce the pressure on the handle at the end of drilling. After drilling the hole, smoothly turn the feed wheel, raise the spindle to its highest position and turn off the machine.
Making a drilling machine
A drilling machine is easy to make with your own hands. In everyday life, it is beneficial to have on hand devices and tools for performing carpentry and plumbing work. After the obsolescence of many household appliances The owners still have many useful spare parts and electric motors in their arsenal, from which they can, if desired, make such useful equipment as a drilling machine.
Drilling machine from a drill
The most simple solution You will be able to assemble a mini drilling machine with your own hands using a drill. The drill weighs a little, so the stand can be made from chipboard, boards or sheet metal. For comfortable work on such homemade machine it is necessary that it be quite massive to absorb the vibration of the drill and sufficiently stable.
It is important to obtain a right angle between the holder and the base. Typically, the drill is attached using two clamps (it is better to place a rubber gasket between the clamp and the drill) to a board that moves along guides that are attached to this movable board and to another stationary board. The downward and upward movement of the movable board is controlled using a lever associated with it.
The downward movement of the lever can be limited by a block that supports the lever in the lower position. The fixed board is attached to the horizontal pipe through a flange. The horizontal pipe is attached through an angle to a vertical pipe, which is attached through a flange to the base of the machine (to a thick wide board) or to the workbench.
The height of the bar, which limits the lower position of the lever, is adjustable, which allows you to change the drilling depth. Make 4 holes in the movable board that are intended for fixing the drill clamps. On the side facing the stationary board, narrow slats are glued, which are lubricated with wax for better glide.
The drill, in addition to the clamps, is fixed with two rods that support it from below. Since with such fastening the shape of the drill does not strictly ensure the vertical position of the drill, you need to glue a strip to the board to compensate for this.
To ensure free movement of the drill, the guides must be prepared strictly in the vertical direction. They can be a protrusion metal profiles made of aluminum, which are screwed with threaded screws to the boards along the entire length. Having assembled a strong and stable structure, it is necessary to fasten the profile guides strictly perpendicular to the plane of the base and parallel to each other.
In the photo of self-made drilling machines, the attachment points to the moving platform of the drill and the installation method for the guide profiles are clearly visible. The guides must ensure high-quality pressing of the movable board to the stationary board. The main condition for this is the absence of distortions and backlash.
When assembling the lever, remember that you cannot tighten the moving parts; it is customary to use a second nut to lock the nuts. The rail that leads to the moving board from the lever should be rounded at the end. After reducing the pressure forces, to automatically raise the drill to the top position, it is necessary to set the springs to compression or tension.
One end of the spring is attached to the horizontal pipe with wire, and the other end is attached to the bottom of the movable board. When the spring is not flexible enough and a stationary board interferes, this is done through a rope.
Machine made from a washing machine motor
Drawing of a drilling machine, which is assembled based on a motor from washing machine, differs from the one discussed above in the most complex mechanics and type of electric drive. Asynchronous motor from old washing machine is heavier and has more vibration. The shaking will be stronger the further away the engine is from the rack.
Intense vibration causes inaccurate drilling and drill breakage. There are two options - make a powerful frame so that when the drill is lowered, the drive also lowers, or place the motor motionless closer to the holder stand, then only the working part of the drilling machine will move.
The second method involves a more complex execution. Here you need a pulley and a belt that allow you to adjust the rotation speed. There are many solutions without a belt drive with a drive located against the wall. They are much easier to assemble, but the assembly discussed below is characterized by non-standard approach, and certain techniques used may be helpful.
Vibrations still remain, but they are so minimal that when drilling iron with a 0.7 mm drill, the drill remains intact. At home, one can only dream of high precision in the manufacture of such mechanisms; it is still necessary to strive for maximum fit of parts. The characteristics of the drilling machine and its performance will depend on this.
The moving part of the machine consists of an axial hexagon, a tube of suitable size, a clamping ring and two bearings and a tube with internal thread to secure the cartridge. A pulley is subsequently placed on the hexagon, part of the future transmission system. The tube must first be sawed lengthwise at both ends with a grinder, and make the cuts on top deep enough to ensure reliable adhesion to the hexagon.
The entrance must be made tight and driven in with a hammer. If donning occurs without special effort, then you need to select another handset. Then fill the compression ring and bearings. The height adjustment system consists of a pipe with notches and a gear. To make cuts accurately, you need to roll out the plasticine and drive a gear along it.
An imprint will appear that can be easily measured and appropriate markings made on the adjusting pipe. The length of this ladder should correspond to the maximum height to which the drill can be raised. Press the axle with hexagon and bearings into the slotted pipe.
Such a design will move back and forth vertically in a stationary frame tube as the gear rotates. At the same time, the axis rotates in a horizontal plane through a belt drive. The bed is made from metal corner using bolts. The entire structure is mounted on the wall.
And finally, remember that the first option for assembling a drilling machine is preferable. The assembly option proposed by the second can be supplemented or improved. However, such a simplified solution deserves attention.
A drilling machine is a unique device that is necessary for a home workshop. It allows you not to seek help from specialized workshops, but simply take and carry out the grooving work yourself.
Thanks to this, a person saves a huge amount of money on the services of turning specialists.
You can make such a device from scrap materials. There is nothing complicated in the process.
To make a home drilling machine, you only need an electric drill or a steering rack.
Purchase industrial units will cost a pretty penny, so it is more advisable to make your own model using drawings with dimensions, which are full on the Internet.
Before you begin creating the unit itself, you should complete the planning. This is a responsible step that requires a careful approach and drawing up a drawing. You need to carefully measure and display on paper the dimensions of the future machine. If this is not done, something will definitely go wrong in the work.
It’s easy to make a mistake, and having a drawing will not allow you to make mistakes. People who neglect this stage in creating a drilling machine with their own hands overpay during the manufacturing process. What you need to take into account while working:
Drawings with dimensions.
- Length, width and height of equipment;
- Thickness of aggregates;
- Technical characteristics of electrical equipment;
- Data of the motor that will drive your machine;
- Power consumption;
- Grounding;
- Quantity of consumables.
The drawing will allow you not only to visually understand how to assemble the equipment, but also what it will exactly look like. The project will make it possible to more clearly determine the amount of production costs.
To assemble such equipment in your workshop, you do not need to have specialized items or electrical equipment. All you need is 4 main components. First of all, you should choose a bed for the filler machine. It will serve as a powerful foundation for a future grooving device.
After this, we decide on the rotation mechanism. It's better for him to choose electric drill.
Tip: Take a drill that is not too old, but not too new. The main thing is that it is in working order, otherwise the equipment can quickly fail.
The third step will be to select a device for supplying revolutions
on the working part of the drill, and also decide on a vertical type stand. The drill itself is lightweight, so you don’t need to look for heavy-duty materials for the stand. An ordinary board or chipboard will do.
Tip: An asynchronous motor from an old washing machine is ideal as a drive.
The bed, on the contrary, is selected from those materials that will be stronger. It should hold everything on itself, and also absorb the rattling of the drill itself. To prevent vibrations from affecting the equipment and the accuracy of work, it is best to select strong metals. Very good, suitable as a holder old rack from a photographic enlarger. True, to create a drilling machine with your own hands, you will need to modify it.
Important! The accuracy of the drilled hole will depend on the quality of the connection between the stand and the unit frame.
The home lathe maker will also need to use several strips of steel to cut two guide bars. They will help to move the block on which the drill is located. You can use screws to secure them. We take and screw everything to the rack.
Clamps will help increase the strength of the drill's fixation. It is best to use steel ones, they can withstand higher loads. To further dampen vibrations, it is best to place a rubber gasket between the machine block and the drill. It will help you eliminate the rattling processes of home equipment during operation.
For a better understanding, watch the video below.
Video machine from a drill
The basis of the movement of the machine is the lever. It allows you to easily move the block with an electric drill in a vertical position. A spring will be installed there, which will allow the drilling apparatus to be maintained at the required tension.
Selecting and installing a steering rack for a drilling machine
To make your home equipment work as conveniently as possible, it is best to use an upgraded steering rack.
If you are going to buy it new from the manufacturer, prepare a tidy sum,
because it is not cheap at all. More profitable solution- this is to choose a used part, best from a VAZ 2108.
Advice: As soon as you have purchased such a spare part, you should carefully inspect it, carry out preventive maintenance and repairs if necessary. This will give it a smoother ride when working with the drilling machine.
Now let's start making a frame for your future drilling equipment
- To make the body you will need to use a drill along with a column. All this should be installed on a table, which will serve as a platform for the future drilling machine. The table dimensions should be around 20x30 cm.
- A special structure that will hold your electric drill is installed on the steering part of the unit. Bolts are used to tighten it.
- To build the rack itself, you must first select U-shaped profile made of steel with dimensions 30x60x30. Then you need to weld it to metal sheet with a thickness of 2 mm. In theory, the stand itself should be 6-7 cm taller than the length of the column itself.
- When creating equipment, it is best for the machine operator to use the VAZ 2108 steering rack, which was mentioned earlier, as the stroke of the rod.
- To further increase the rigidity of the entire structure, additional ribs should be installed during installation.
To ensure that the operator does not have problems starting or stopping the equipment during operation, a practical system for starting and stopping the drilling machine motor should be considered.
May not be very useful in everyday life big machine, and drilling equipment for working with micro printed circuit boards as in the photo.
To make it, the creator will need:
- Micromotor or engine operating at high speeds.
- Special collet for clamping small drills.
- Several wooden blocks.
- U-shaped metal profile.
- A retaining ring that will help secure the engine.
- A mobile platform for a machine, which is created with your own hands from all kinds of materials found in everyday life.
Important! So that the machine does not ultimately disappoint you and works clearly and accurately, you should Special attention pay attention to lowering the drill. It must be perpendicular to the board.
If the motor becomes distorted under some circumstances, the user runs the risk of damaging the drills. During the production of home drilling equipment, you need to carefully monitor the quality of the motor fixation. If it is not installed securely, it will simply tear out of the frame when the engine is running at high speeds. This is fraught with damage to your property and the risk of harm to health.
How to make a coordinate table
IN home machine For drilling, the role of the coordinate table will be performed by the feed mechanism. And at the same table, but for milling equipment slightly different design. Therefore, it should be considered more carefully.
This equipment is a special manipulator, which consists of the number of axes desired by the user. It is needed to move specialized technological heads of drilling equipment in several directions and planes at once.
Important! To make a milling table at home, you cannot do without using several linear-type modules. They must be made of aluminum profile.
To carry out motion transfer when creating milling table A special toothed rack should be used, as well as a reinforced belt. Instead, a ball-screw element will do just fine.
To improve management coordinate table the creator will need to use CNC or controllers. Thanks to their installation, the user of the equipment has the opportunity to manage the technical tasks assigned to the machine.
Important! When creating a router table for your drill press, be sure to make a drawing before you begin. This will allow you to clearly understand the algorithm of actions and save yourself from unnecessary mistakes.
Calculation in in this case carried out taking into account technical characteristics the drilling unit itself. The design itself can be either lightweight or with increased strength. And also 2 or 3 coordinates can be used there. The first step before creating a machine is to understand its main role in your home workshop. And this can be used as a starting point in the design and further production process.
When everything is ready, you need to make a vice, otherwise you will not be able to fix the part at home; holding it in your hands is strictly prohibited. Purchasing old Soviet vices made of steel or cast iron can be expensive. Models made in China will not be to everyone’s taste due to their fragility. Therefore one of economical options will make them yourself.
You will need:
- A screw with a 2 cm thread and a length of 15 cm. There must be a slot in the head of the fastener.
- A special screw with a ring that is used for tightening.
- Hairpins.
You should make a stationary sponge. How to make this element? To create, use pine wood. It is affordable and quite durable. The board should be grafted onto the tabletop.
To make the mobile part of the vice you need a board with dimensions of 2 cm thick and 1.8 cm wide. The length of the movable jaws for clamps must be from 50 cm.
All you need to do is cut holes with a diameter of 2.1 cm. In studs, this diameter will be 1 cm. Then the creator simply inserts the studs along with the screws into the finished holes, after which he attaches the nuts and tightens them with bolts.
And this concludes the production of home vices.
When you have created your home drilling machine, you should definitely check it.
Plug the engine into the outlet and, if you did everything correctly, it didn’t happen to you. short circuit, there are no uncharacteristic sounds for the operation of the unit - you can congratulate yourself on the successful completion of the project.
A homemade machine will allow you to perform simple drilling operations at home and save on the services of auto repair shops or turners.
Video on how to make a drilling machine
The only thing is that in order for the equipment to work as long as possible, do not be shy or lazy to check the working surfaces along with the engine every six months for damage or wear of parts. Timely identification of the problem will allow you to protect yourself from real troubles.