Finally Built A Decent Drill Press Table.

Hey all, haven't posted for a while, but after years of putting up with a quick bodge job (too many buiilds, not enough time!) I've finally put together a decent drill press table and thought I'd post a few photos.

Constructed out of leftover BB grade Birch ply. I laminated two pieces of 18mm together for the main table and the face of the fence. I weighted it down with my Jet bobbin sander and a pile of clamps.



The fence was jointed with a Festool domino only because i've just bought one for a kitchen build and wanted to test it! I also made some right angled supports for the fence (cut on the mitre saw) and routed a slot for some of the Incra T-Track with the tape measure. I cut out a circular section on the back of the fence so that I could remove it easily.



The table has two lengths of the standard T-track



I was planning to use some Kreg T-trak that I have but it's quite shallow and I prefer the Incra. The only downside of the Incra is that as I'm in the UK, it's hard to get hold of imperial (1/4"-20) hex set screws to run in it. I know I can use M6 roofing bolt washers on an M6 threaded bar in the track but i prefer the bolts, especially when use a through-knob. Westfield Fasteners are the place I use.

I also used the Woodpecker multi knobs to secure the fence and ordered some longer 5"imperial bolts so that the knobs sat above the fence. I made spacers out of some leftover plastic pipe.



The track was bolted through with M3 machine screws



and the table was held down with M6 countersunk machine screws.





I was struggling to find reasonably priced hold down clamps, and eventually bought the UJK ones from Axminster for £6 each. In order to fit the incra track I needed to grind down the sides of the t-bolts slightly.

And here's the finished table.



It has massively improved productivity already.
Cheers
Dave

 

Thanks guys. It's one of those jobs that I've put off for years after admiring many that I'd seen here. Luckily I had a bit of spare time between jobs and some leftover birch ply so thought I'd treat myself!

Cheers
Dave

 

Hi Olivier. Actually, that's where I got my drill press too! I haven't tried the Axminster track but I did read that it and the fittings were often hard to get hold of. And one big reason for using the incra is that it's the only track that I definitely know my festool clamps will fit into.

Thanks Vizcaster. I got the idea of the spacers from looking at my Jessem router table fence.

Toilet flange bolts? That's a great idea! Not sure how much they cost? but the 5" 1/4-20 bolts i bought were about £2 or £3 each!
Cheers
Dave