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You know I am having trouble here. I need to get this hole into this piece of wood but it is got to be perfectly straight and the trouble with a regular hand drill was that you can wobble all over the place and you might not get it right.

But you know what, there is a neat tool that allows you to do it. It is the drill press. The tool for every man and women too, the most important part to understand about a drill press is that the drill and the motor itself are stationery meaning that the only thing that the drill can do is spin around and it can go straight up and down and that is exactly what we are looking for. There is no wobble. There is no chance that the driller tilts one way or the other.

One of the other nice things about a drill press is that they also operate at different speeds. For example, all you have to do is lift up the top of a typical drill press like this and there is pulleys up here with belts and by adjusting the belts on a different pulleys, they can go from a very slow speed to a very fast speed.

The work table that you actually place your material on can be adjusted to different heights and that is important as you can see, it is in a good height now to drill the 2 x 4 if I want to go to through inch and a half. But what happens if I want to drill through that long part of the 2 x 4? It is not a problem. Simply crank the table down, insert the safety lock keys so that you can turn the drill on, activate the switch and you will see that the drills are ready to go and rotate the handle slowly so it drills down into the wood. It is as simple as that.

Currently, the drill press handle is located on the right side of the tool but it can be located at the left side here if you are a southpaw. Another handy feature of this drill press, in case your drill starts and it wants you to do some night maneuvers and you need a little extra light, it has got one.

I am Tim Carter, Ask the Builder. If you want to discover more home improvement tips go to AskTheBuilder.com.

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