Shran
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Truck of Month
This arrived last week. I’m always a a little nervous about Vevor and knockoff junk but they did good here.
A while back I bought a 17”, 16 speed drill press from Harbor Freight and it turned out to be a lemon for drilling metal. The quill had a ton of runout that couldn’t be adjusted out and the column was so thin that under pressure when drilling, the head would flex upwards about 1/4”. Fine for wood… not metal. I scored a nice Porter Cable from the pawn shop that is a lot more stout but it didn’t have a rotating table so I had to upgrade my vise too.
A while back I bought a 17”, 16 speed drill press from Harbor Freight and it turned out to be a lemon for drilling metal. The quill had a ton of runout that couldn’t be adjusted out and the column was so thin that under pressure when drilling, the head would flex upwards about 1/4”. Fine for wood… not metal. I scored a nice Porter Cable from the pawn shop that is a lot more stout but it didn’t have a rotating table so I had to upgrade my vise too.