At 10:58 PM 7/17/2009, solarwind wrote: >http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=247825-353-5000220-01&lpage=none > >Worth the price or ripoff? I'm not real happy with that design. I have a MUCH older version that works very well for drilling PC boards - the Dremel tool is stationary and the table that the PC board is sitting on moves up and down. UP, of course, is drilling. The problem with that old design is that anybody who looked at it but didn't actually use it thought that it was a stupid design and didn't purchase it. They wanted something that looked like a 'normal' drill press looks like. So: that's what Dremel now sells. The advantage of the old design is that there is essentially NO side-to-side slop as the table moves up and down. That means that you don't break drill bits. The new Dremel drill press is much LESS useful for drilling PC boards. We used to make many of our own production PC boards (early '80's) and made almost all of our own prototype PC boards in-house up until a couple of years ago. The guys in the shop used to get in excess of 10,000 holes per drill bit (carbide) using that simple Dremel drill press. The smallest bit we used was #66 - for some reason, much easier to obtain and somewhat less expensive than the #67 bit that everyone recommended back then. Solarwind - if you do the garage-sale thing, keep your eyes open for one of those old Dremel drill presses. They really do work well. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist