Magnetic stand for a drill with their own hands

Stand for a drill made with their own hands

A simple self-made stand for the drill made by our own hands, a detailed description of manufacturing with step-by-step photos.

Hello everyone! I want to show a homemade drill press made from a drill. The machine is assembled from profile pipe, angle bar and sheet steel, in the manufacture of all quite simple.

The carriage on the rack moves by cable drive, everything works without any problems. If you are interested in the project, I suggest you study it in more detail.

Materials for making the machine:

The following photo shows the process of making a homemade stand for the drill.

To make the base of the machine we need a sheet of steel and two angles, the angle is welded to the base, thus strengthening the base and get the support. If desired, you can weld the ears to the corners to fix the machine to the table. Choose a thicker sheet of steel so that nothing would play while working.

Mounting for the stand, I decided to install the screws, that is, it can be removed and adjust the slope. To make a mount for the stand, weld a pipe from a steel angle and weld the mount to the base.

The vertical strut is made of a square tube.

We make the carriage by welding two pieces of angle, as a result we get a square tube with minimum clearance between the rack. To allow the clearances to be removed as they wear, you can drill holes, cut threads, and screw in screws that will rest on the rack.

The mechanism for moving the carriage is made of rope. On the carriage is a roller that interacts with the cable. Such a roller can be made from a piece of round tube by welding it to a steel rod. As the hinges, just welded steel plates with holes. After welding, we bend the axle and get a lever.

As a result of prolonged work, the cable will stretch, and it will need to be tightened. To solve the problem, a threaded rod with an ear on the end is screwed vertically to the top of the stand. You can also use an ear nut and the rod is simply welded to the rack.

To make the bracket for the drill, we weld together the required construction from an angle and two pieces of shaped tube. To fix the drill do a simple clamp, here you need a piece of round tube of suitable diameter. The pipe is cut and welded nuts, with which the clamp will be tightened.

In the photo, the mechanism of lowering the carriage is shown.

Lubricate the friction joints and paint all other parts to prevent the homemade stand from rusting.

Homemade machine great drills, quite useful homemade for the home workshop!

Advantages and disadvantages of a homemade stand

Homemade drill stand has a number of advantages, the most significant of which should include the following:

  • Making such a machine for drilling is much cheaper than buying a serial model of such a device;
  • Make such a tripod for a drill can be made of improvised means, using components from old and unused equipment, which can always be found in any garage or home workshop;
  • drawings of such devices of various designs and even video instructions on their manufacture are in the public domain, it will not be difficult to find them;
  • If desired, you can always create a machine tool from a drill of your own design, which by its characteristics and ease of use will be superior to all available models.

The simplest factory-made rack made in China can be bought very inexpensively (from 1200), but its functionality and quality will not satisfy all masters. too often there are complaints about the substantial backlash in the budget models

But, of course, self-made device for fixing the drill has its own disadvantages, which should include the following:

  • In order to make some parts of such racks, requires the use of lathes, welding and other equipment, which, of course, increases their cost;
  • due to the fact that the structural elements of such devices for drilling are not fitting too well, they often have a backlash, and this has a negative impact on the accuracy and quality of processing carried out with them;
  • homemade drill stand is quite limited in its functionality, with its help, for example, it is impossible to perform holes located at an angle.

Wooden drill stand: a variant

A variant of the stand with rather detailed assembly instructions in a photo set illustrating the stages of manufacturing. To build this model you will need at least 20 mm thick boards, a small box with furniture rails and a threaded rod for the movable part of the stand, a couple dozen short and a dozen or three long screws, joinery glue plus the usual tools for such cases like a saw, a screwdriver, a clamp, a drill and sandpaper for the finish.

Drill drives

Making a project of assembling a holder for a drill with their own hands, you should decide on the type of lifting and releasing mechanism, which serves for the vertical feed of the drill to the workpiece. It is the main feature of the machine. The following mechanisms are distinguished:

Spring-loaded, spring-loaded and hinged units are the easiest to assemble with your own hands. Blueprints of a drilling machine from a spring-type drill suggest placing the spring either directly at the handle, or at the base of the carriage in special slots. If there are no additional clamps, it will be impossible to perform milling with such machines, as they require constant manual control of the drill position.

Devices based on rack and “sprocket” (cogwheel, automobile bendix) should also provide additional locks. This can be done, for example, by placing an extra screw on the drill mount that works like a friction switch. When the cutter has reached the required position, the screw on the guide is tightened and you can then begin beveling and slotting.

Screw mechanisms work on the principle of the same-name jacks. They are based on a vertically positioned tube with a thread that allows rotation around its axis. On the tube is a nut, welded to the holder of the drill. When rotating the pipe, the nut and the tool holder change their position. For additional stability of the tool during work, the mount can also be equipped with a friction.

Pros and cons of the homemade drill stand

Like any self-assembled product, the self-made drill mount has its own positive and negative sides compared to the store product. The positive points are:

  • Cheap. Homemade drilling machine is cheaper than its purchased counterpart.
  • You can assemble it practically from anything. Almost any unnecessary equipment and boards will do
  • You can find a lot of articles and videos on the Internet about the self-made stands, which will help to choose the right one and assemble it without any problems.
  • You can come up with your own design, which will satisfy all the individual needs of the master.

The negative points in the manufacture of the holder for the drill are:

  • Limited functionality. Simple self-made stands do not have a high set of features, for example it is impossible to change the drilling angle.
  • Looseness, arising from poor fitting of materials. It negatively affects the quality of processing and accuracy of drilling.
  • It is necessary to have some tools: a lathe, welding and cutting equipment and skills to work with them. They are necessary in the manufacture of some parts of the racks.

Vertical stand for an electric screwdriver with their own hands

Now let’s look at the second version of the homemade stand. On the whole, the design is very simple, but most importantly. it works. The idea belongs to the author of YouTube channel Gökmen ALTUNTAŞ.

In this case it is quite compact, because it is designed for use with an electric screwdriver.

It is also possible to adapt it for an electric drill, increasing its size a little. Then we have a home-made drill stand.

The advantage of this construction is that you need only few materials for it. You don’t even need to buy many parts. you can find them in the garage.

Let’s make a stand for the drill stand from 20 mm plywood. You can also use a piece of board.

The first thing you do is to saw off the plywood to the right size. Then we mark and drill two holes in it. Using epoxy glue, we glue the rails.

Round off the sharp corners of the base on the grinder. Make a movable platform from wood or plywood.

In the moving part we drill 19 mm diameter holes for bearings. Lubricate the outside of the bearings with epoxy glue and insert the bearings into the holes.

We screw an adapter into a drill chuck and put a round tube on it. It is not just put on, but also rigidly fixed with epoxy glue.

In the moving part we drill the 29mm diameter seats for the round bearings.

Put the first bearing on the tube and press it from the bottom of the pad. Then put the second bearing on the tube and press it into place. To make it safe we use epoxy adhesive.

Put springs and washers on the guides. Then mount the moving pad with the drill chuck.

To limit the travel, wooden “plugs” need to be pressed onto the upper part of the rail.

Then clamp the drill chuck shank in the chuck of an electric screwdriver, and with a drill bit of suitable diameter drill a hole in the base.

At this point, the process of making the homemade device can be considered completed. Then you only need to paint or cover everything with mineral oil. Of all the stands this option is the easiest and most budgetary.

For details on how to make this device, you can see in the author’s video.

Devices for power tools:

Various accessories for power tools are needed in order to make the work most convenient and easy.

Buy such tools is not always possible, of course, and often they are needed in general for a couple of times. For this reason it is much easier to make them without the help of others, spending not so much time.

Attachments for power tools:

Various accessories for power tools are needed in order to make the work most convenient and easy.

Buy such tools is not always possible, of course, and often they are needed in general for a couple of times. For this reason it is much easier to make them without the help of others, spending not so much time.

Drill guide for your own hands

We offer you the third budget option of self-made device. The design is also quite simple to make, but made of metal. This idea belongs to the author of the YouTube channel Be Creative.

The materials you’ll need to make and assemble the drill stand:

  • profile tube;
  • metal sleeves;
  • clamp for the drill;
  • steel plates;
  • rails;
  • return springs.

First of all, you need to make a movable part of the stand, to which the electric drill will be attached. It was made of wood in the previous version, but this time it’s made of profiled pipe.

Cut off a piece of square section, and cut out on the ends of the saddles. Then two bushings are welded to it.

In the middle you need to weld a clamp to fix the electric drill. It can be made from a piece of round tube, two nuts and a bolt.

Next, we cut off three pieces of steel strip, and weld the base of the stand (supporting pad) from them.

We weld smooth rebar guides to the base. Put the springs on them.

Fix the drill with a clamp, and then put the movable part on the rails.

Homemade drill stand ready. Yes, it looks very primitive and flimsy, but you can make it very quickly from scrap metal.

The detailed process of manufacturing and assembling this structure can be seen in the video below.

Instructions for making it

The first thing you need to take care of is a good quality blueprint. As mentioned above, it is not very difficult to find it on the Internet.

Once you’ve found the blueprint, you can get to work. The first thing to do is to make the stand. It will serve as the base of the thing to be made.

To make it, you need to take a pre-prepared wooden board or metal sheet, and then cut a plate of your choice. It is not recommended to make it too big or too small.

The next step is the construction of the tripod stand. It is made of the same material as the base. Here already the size should be selected on the basis of the size of the drill.

It is necessary to fix a support on the bed, and to attach the base to it. With the help of a beam it is necessary to strengthen the made device. The guides should be welded onto the finished construction.

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The last action is to make a mechanism that will allow you to move. To do this, it is necessary to take a lever-arm and place it between the plates, which are screwed to the bed. The springs are placed in the hollow of the guide rails.

If you followed all the steps of the instructions exactly, then you have obtained a wonderful stand for the drill with their own hands. As mentioned earlier, the design is not difficult to make and its construction does not take much time.

Arrangement of additional units

If you adapt additional attachments to the homemade machine, it is possible to perform simple turning, milling technological operations, as well as drilling holes at an angle. To make this work available, the foreman must be able to move the workpiece in the horizontal plane. This is possible by means of a movable horizontal barrel, on which a vice is mounted to hold the workpiece. The barrel is set in motion by turning a handle. In order to drill holes at an angle, homemade machines are additionally equipped with special rotary plates that contain holes in the arc. With their help, the workpieces to be machined are secured. To be able to do this work, the machinist should do the following

  • Drill an axial hole on the additional rotary plate and the machine stand.
  • Using a protractor, drill the swivel plate at angles: 30, 45 and 60 degrees.
  • Equip the stand with three holes into which the pins of the rotary plate will be inserted. With their help the fixation of rotary and stationary part of the machine will be carried out in the future.

To make the hole at the desired angle, simply turn the electric drill attached to the additional plate at the desired angle and lock the tool in that position using the pins.

How the fabrication process proceeds

When all the preparatory stages are passed, you can proceed directly to the work process. The scheme of work consists of several stages, each of which will be described in detail in this section.

  • Making the base. Self-made frame is the basis of the entire construction: it is on the frame that all the other elements of the stand are attached. Made usually from solid wood or iron. As for the dimensions, it is best to take the parameters 10050. As for the thickness, it should be 3 cm for wood and 2 cm for metal. Sometimes a thinner material is allowed, but it is better not to economize on the thickness of the material.
  • Strengthening the stand and the support on the bed. These parts are cut from the same material as the bed, and are fastened with screws or screws perpendicular to it. Look holder for the drill, your own hands made, will be as follows:

You can also make a carriage using clamps, but it will not be as reliable as the wooden block, reinforced on the iron corners.

And this is how the whole construction will look like:

In general, we can say that making a stand for the drill. the process is quite simple, although it requires a certain skill. But if you are careful, do not hurry and carefully study the drawings, then the self-made rack for a drill will turn out even a person who has initial skills in woodworking.

Of course, the handmade drill stand has its disadvantages: insufficient accuracy, slightly shorter service life compared to factory-made machines, a smaller range of available work. However, cheapness, accessibility, ease of performance and the ability to produce a machine tool according to the individual needs of the master make self-made drilling stands a fairly common phenomenon.

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Machine from a photo enlarger

If an old photo magnifier is lying around at home, it can be quickly rebuilt into a drilling machine. The design has a finished bed with a stand and even a control mechanism with a handle, but only without springs. The drill has to be raised and lowered by turning the native zoom lens handle. To make the machine it is enough to disconnect the tank, where the lamp with lenses is installed, and in its place fix a clamp for a drill.

List of materials:

Let’s make the base of the machine from a steel plate, and weld a piece of pipe vertically to the plate.

On top is put another tube, which is a carriage. The diameter of the carriage can be reduced by cutting the pipe lengthwise and working with a hammer. The smaller the gap, the more accurate the rack will be.

We make a simple clamp or a drill clamp. The author just picked up a piece of pipe with the diameter of the nose of the drill and welded the nut. The drill is fixed by one screw. Here, of course, it would be good to make a full-fledged clamp by cutting the pipe lengthwise and welding two nuts.

And then through a piece of pipe we weld the clamp to the slide. It is important to measure everything carefully before welding so that the drill is at right angles to the table.

As a result there is a ready carriage with a drill clamp, the only things left is to put a powerful spring and a washer on the rack that will lift the carriage with the drill.

We take a piece of chain of necessary length and weld it to the steel plate. Next, the steel plate can be welded to the carriage, the sprocket will interact with the chain.

Let’s weld a steel plate with a sprocket attached to the base. The sprocket must be pressed tightly against the chain, we’ll use a bolt and nut as an axis.

Next, a piece of pipe is welded to the sprocket, and a lever can be welded to this pipe.

Paint the rack, carriage and guide can be lubricated, this also applies to the chain with sprocket. Clamp the drill and you are ready to drill. It is now much easier and safer to work with large-diameter drills.

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Drilling machine drives

Making the project of assembling a holder for a drill with their own hands, you should decide on the type of lifting and releasing mechanism, which serves for vertical delivery of the drill to the workpiece. It is the main characteristic of the machine. The following mechanisms are distinguished:

Spring, spring-hinged and hinged units are the easiest to assemble with your own hands. Drawings of a drilling machine from a spring-type drill suggest placing the spring either directly at the handle, or at the base of the carriage in special grooves. If there are no additional locks, it will not be possible to mill with such machines, as they require constant manual control of the drill’s position.

Devices based on rack and “sprocket” (gear wheel, car bendix) should also provide additional clamps. They can be made, for example, by placing an additional screw on the drill mount, working on the friction principle. When the cutter has reached the required position, the screw on the guide is tightened, and you can then begin chamfering and grooving.

Screw-type mechanisms work on the principle of the same-name jacks. They are based on a vertically positioned tube with a thread that can be rotated around its axis. On the pipe there is a nut welded to the drill mount. Turning the pipe causes the nut and the tool mount to change position. To increase the stability of the tool during operation, the fixture can also be equipped with a friction.

Drill stand made of tubular profiles

Greetings to all fans of tinkering, I offer for consideration the instruction on how to make a simple and reliable stand for a drill from available materials with their own hands. Having such a home-made machine, you get a ready-made drilling machine, you only need to install on the machine a drill of such power as you need. The author used square profile pipes as the basic material. If you are interested in the project, I suggest you study it in more detail! Materials and tools used by the author:List of materials:

The first thing to do is to make a strong and reliable support for the machine. As the material, the author used profile pipes, we cut them using a mitre saw, it is fast and accurate. If you do not have a coping saw, you can first make a stand for your angle grinder. Having cut the pipes, we weld the square and clean the welds well, the product looks nice and high quality.

Step Two. Legs Let’s make the legs for the base, the author’s idea is that they are adjustable. Thanks to the adjustment, you can adjust the machine so that it does not wobble on the crooked table. As the legs are suitable bolts, nuts are welded to the base, and for the bolts in the base are drilled holes, where they will go.

Step Three. Support and carriage The author used a piece of square tube as a support, and a piece of pipe with a larger diameter is also used as a carriage. To minimize play in the carriage, the author minimized gaps by inserting steel plates into the carriage and welding them to the carriage. A carriage of suitable size can be made from angle bars. At the end of the carriage welded perpendicular to the carriage another piece of pipe, it will already have a clamp to mount the drill.

Step Four. Making a drill clamp To make a drill clamp that allows you to quickly and reliably mount and dismount the drill. The clamp will clamp the drill in the part where the front handle is fastened. We make a clamp from a piece of round pipe of a suitable diameter, tighten it with the bolt and nuts that are welded to the ends of the clamp. Of course, for simple unscrewing of the clamp, it would be good to weld a handle to the end of the bolt, so as not to use wrenches.

Once all these parts are ready, you can weld the rack to the base. Similarly, we weld a clamp to the carriage, the drill should be exactly at right angles to the base.

We make the lever, which will lower the carriage with the drill, we use a piece of shaped tube as a base. The lever is hinged to the carriage, the author successfully used nuts and bolts as the hinge, we got a kind of “threaded hinge”. The end of the lever is hinged to another lever, which acts as a thrust. This very stop lever is pivotally attached to the frame already. As a result, it works like a crankshaft and connecting rod in a car engine.