Drill Press

A drill press is a drilling machine built for quickly and easily drilling, countersinking or counterboring holes that come out perpendicular to the table in both directions, something a handheld drill cannot reliably guarantee on its own. It comes as a benchtop model for mounting on a workbench or a floor-standing model set on the ground, either of which must be secured to keep it from tipping; a related magnetic drilling machine clamps itself to the workpiece electromagnetically instead, useful for industrial field repairs and on-site manufacturing work. Three main constructions exist: the double drill press, whose spindle moves along both the X and Y axes; the column drill press, whose spindle moves vertically along a fixed column; and the radial drill press, whose spindle can be repositioned horizontally as well.