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    Quote Originally Posted by Techo1 View Post
    Not a bad idea but it could take your eye out if something went wrong.
    You could slip some loose fitting plastic hose over the spring and pull-wire to restrain it if it ever broke perhaps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Techo1 View Post
    Not a bad idea but it could take your eye out if something went wrong.
    I would expect that the risk of a drill breaking or swarf drillings and doing damage to your eye is greater than the probability of a spring breaking .

    Wearing safety eye ware while using the drill press will come naturally ?

    Grahame

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    Having no idea what a Richardson drill press looks like.

    Weight and pulley systems work well as they don't "wind up" like spring systems.

    If you have a the space

    Stuart

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