Indeed. For various reasons, I am mechanically inept and Bob's homemade 
drill looks totally amazing to me.

Would Bob be so kind as to provide a hi-res pic? :)


Tony Vandiver wrote:
> very cool
>
> Bob Blick wrote:
>> Jinx wrote:
>>
>>> Printer carriages have very good guide rails and transports. So do
>>> 5 1/4" floppy drives. And both good enough to mechanise with a
>>> small motor I reckon, if you want push-button drilling
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Funny you should mention it, a long long time ago I made a PCB drill
>> press with the slide from a 5 1/4" floppy drive. I put a knob on the
>> back end of the stepper motor shaft to do the up-and-down, used the
>> spinner motor from a daisywheel printer to do the drilling, the chuck
>> was guts of a panel-mount locking 1/8" milspec potentiometer. I still
>> use it, only ever broke a drill bit if I did something stupid. Attached
>> is a picture.
>>
>> Cheerful regards,
>>
>> Bob 

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