Thread: Lathe Drilling Jig

Try this site its over the top Lignotec EN

Or here its how I drilled the hub for the spinning wheel the drill stand is from Aldis my Nova has indexing.

Hi Jack620
This is what I did. If you need more info let me know.

Phil

Thanks fellas. I'll feed that info into the mix and see what comes out!

wheelinround,
I have the same Metabo drill as the one in your first link. It absolutely refuses to die. I've had the gearbox so hot it burned my hand.

Phil,
I gather the drill clamps in the jig? Or is it a die grinder?

Chris

Chris drill rig left side almost bottom of the page range

I have seen similar made using an old slave cylinder off vehicle or master cylinder

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/la...riller-135208/
Here is my cross slide hole driller...Bob

Thanks Bob,
yours is the jig I was thinking of.
Cheers,
Chris

Originally Posted by jack620

Phil,
I gather the drill clamps in the jig? Or is it a die grinder?

Chris

Hi Chris,
I have a metabo drill the same as well and yes it does clamp in the jig using the collar on the drill that the handle goes onto.

Phil

Originally Posted by aametalmaster

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/la...riller-135208/
Here is my cross slide hole driller...Bob

Nice engineering and photo-shoot.

Here is another method, not made by me but by the elderly engineer from whom I bought my Myford ML7 over 30 years ago. If I live long enough, one day I'll fit a more powerful mains motor, this one runs on 12 volts.

I wonder if a universal motor from a old domestic sewing machine would have enough grunt to power a tool post drill . Op shops are full of old sewing machines ... MIKE

These days you are probably better off going into a second hand/ pawn shop and getting an old 12V battery drill and then powering that with a car battery - you'd probably get one for 10 to 20 dollars and have a chuck included.

Michael

I saw some one make one of these but he could do milling to aswell as drilling, pretty awesome but i dont how he made it though, something similar to what you guys are probably posting.

Cooper

I would rather use an old mains drill because it will spin much faster than an old cordless, and work better for small holes. In fact I have a couple kicking around somewhere...

Originally Posted by morrisman

I wonder if a universal motor from a old domestic sewing machine would have enough grunt to power a tool post drill . Op shops are full of old sewing machines ... MIKE

Mike, you are a genius! I happen to have such a motor that I stripped a couple of years ago to fit a reversing switch, the idea being to fit it to my pedal operated router lift but so many other projects went ahead of it so the parts are still in a plastic box, now ready, one of these days to fit on the lathe drilling attachment.
As for milling, light work I do on my mill/drill, a converted 10 speed drill press that I bought from the same engineer from whom I bought the Myford lathe. For heavier milling I use the vertical. slide on the lathe.