Drill Press Shaft Collar by LCSteve

Last crawled date: 2 years, 11 months ago

I bought a Wen table top drill press and quickly realized I wanted a floor standing model and table space is a premium in my workshop. So I pulled out the factory shaft and replaced it with a standard 2-3/8" (60.325mm) corner fence post from the hardware store. The original pipe was 2.25" so it was already close and only needed a couple things hogged out to accept the larger pipe. One thing that never worked well on the original pipe were the 2 locking rings to how the "rack" on the side which allows the table to worm up and down. They were always loose no matter how had I tightened them. So I made some new collars from scratch with a slot cut out in them to accept the size of the rack and made them 2 parts for easy installation and servicing if need be. They've been in service for months and work rock solid and are much firmer than the stock slip collars.