Drill Press Clamp : 11 Steps (with Pictures)

Let's start this instructable off with a question: How do you clamp materials to the drill press? Or don't you? Look buddy, I'm not judging, trust me, I'm not. I've got my own safety demons that stare at me while I'm welding in shorts and flip flops. One of these days, we'll learn though, right?

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It was a few years ago when I was drilling a square piece of metal stock when I lost the finger on my left hand due to a spinning piece of metal that I had lost control of--

Okay, that's a lie. No fingers were lost...but yowwie did that hurt. I mean hurt. I ended up getting a beautiful blood blister and thinking, Man, I really should clamp these suckers down. But how to do this task? If you have a drill press, look at the underside of it. If it's some metal drill press that is meant to hold a sea of oil, this project isn't for you (at least, I can only think that that's what those tables are for). The underside of my drill press isn't flat...it has four large groove channels that get in the way of being flat.

But why does flat matter? Flat matters as clamps require two surfaces for clamping, both of which should, in theory, be parallel to each other. Using claps on my drill press was a balancing act...one that I never seemed to win.

So I turned to that magnificent google machine and shook the magic 8-ball, my question quickly pounding out on the keys of my computer.

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Google genie, show me drill press clamps!

Luck was on my side! There sat a device that would safely attach through those channels (that's apparently what the channels were there for, right?) and safely clamp my materials down. Quickly I jumped into the Make Things two tone magical mobile and hit the hardware store. I threw cash at the cashier before doing a "duke slide" over my car hood and returning to the Make Things lair.

The joke was on me, though. This thing was not only a menace in size, it took almost luck to thread the bolt on to get it to lock in the right place.

Ahhh!

But the mice in my head began turning the wheels...and an idea stretched forth in my noggin. The result of that is listed here in this instructable...and boy does it ever work!

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