Oh I want this drill press

[woodlandfarms]

Powerful drill turns metal into molten metal as it drills

 

[davesl708]

Cool. I want one.

 

[mapper]

Go to their website, this will work in a standard drillpress with an R2 or 3 collet. It does require their collet system to hold the bit and dissipate the heat. Does look pretty cool.

 

[chad22]

That is cool. Would love to have it too.

 

[BethelHntr]

That would be nice to have, I wonder what RPM this needs to work best.

 

[stuckmotor]

I went to the website, but, didn't see any prices.

 

[k0ua]

Interesting but not a new concept. Years ago when I used to install Radio equipment in automobiles, We installed a lot of control head brackets and speaker brackets on the transmission tunnels of the vehicles. Instead of drilling a pilot hole for the screws, we alway used an ice pick to make a starter hole. There were two good reasons this is a better method. One is that the ice pick, much like this drilling method illustrated in the video makes much more surface for the sheet metal screw to grab on to as it displaces the metal downward in an inverted cone instead of removing it metal like a drill bit would. The second reason is the drill bits would often grab the carpet and wind it up on the bit, where the punch method does not do this.

 

[SimS]

You can look up their speed chart online. Depending on material, hole diameter and machine HP the RPMs ranged from 600 to 3300 for steel and stainless. I wonder what the cycle times are to allow the bit to cool between holes. Very neat concept.

SimS

 

[LD1]

Certainly would need to how the type of metal drilling if you planned on machining afterwords like tapping. Dont think it would work to well on certain stainless alloys and hardenable steels like o1 or a1.

 

[Big Barn]

This is from the Van Sant catalog:


Now I remember why I never purchased a starter kit.
Terry