DP depth stop / quill stop

The drill press I bought (and am beginning to regret my haste in purchasing) has neither a depth stop nor a quill stop. It is okay for drilling through holes but not for drilling matched depth holes. Does anyone know of an aftermarket source for such devices? I think it would look like a threaded rod attached to a fixed bottom plate that would travel with the quill and an upper guide plate permanently affixed to the housing with a nut above and below to limit travel of the quill.

I can almost 'see' the durned thing with my minds eye but I don't have any metalworking tools (or metal stock) up to the task. I could get the stock at Production Tool or even from 'found steel' near just about any factory near me, but the tools are well beyond my budget.

In fact, would anybody (with the appropriate tools and skills) be willing to work up a prototype from my drawings?

Bill

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Anonymous
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Does it not have the little wheel with numbers on it that turns as the quill comes down?

Reply to
Gerald Ross

Are you *absolutely* sure? I won't claim to have seen every one ever made, but even the cheapest junkiest DP's I have seen have a depth stop. A DP without one is almost pointless.

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Paul Kierstead

Yes, it has the travel dial. What I am looking for is a way to block it from going beyond a certain point. I can set the travel dial to show me when I have gone a certain distance but what I want is a device that will let me travel that distance and NO further.

Bill

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Anonymous

The travel dial should have a knob/thingy to loosen it so it rotates freely. Using this it will function as a depth stop. Basically, it stops at zero, so if you adjust the dial so "zero" is at a different place, you get a depth stop. Put a workpiece underneath; turn handles down until bit contacts the piece; adjust the dial until it reads the desired depth and lock the dial. There are other ways to muck with it too.

PK

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Paul Kierstead

Check the "travel dial" should have a lever or knob to set the depth. If not at least it should have a threaded hole for one.I do not believe it is possible to put a threaded rod depth stop and or quill lock on a machine that was not set up for one. You would need a yoke that goes around the quill and a way to mount the yoke on the drill press body.The quill lock is threaded into the yoke on this type of machine. Any drill press without a quill lock is very limited. mike

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kwoodhands

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