Thanks PeeJay and its nice to hear from you my friend. I have a very small area I set up in our home office, but its no place to have any equipment like saws, drill press or bench top lathe. I have plenty off room in my unheated cellar, but with my bad back I can't do most of whats required to set a nice work area. I'm at the mercy of family to help me from time to time.
After Christmas I bought myself a nice floor model drill press from harbor Freight Tools. My nephew and wife took the parts out of the box and wrestled them into the basement and them my nephew helped me assemble it. I also got myself an X-Y table and a nice miniature (4 inch) milling machine type vise. I also got a couple inexpensive vernier scale digital readouts and mounted them on the X-Y table. I now have a poor mans milling/drilling machine that for the most part is only good for very light duty milling on plastic and wood.
Here's a couple photos of it set up in my basement. As always, feel free to tell me what you think.
The first photo it the new table and vise just out of their boxes. I was cleaning the grease off.
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Here's the drill press all assembled wthe the X-Y table on it. The drill dress is top heavy with the extra weight of the X-y table. I'll be making some kind so safety bracket for it maybe attached to one of the floor joists above the machine.
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Roger DD-555