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Throw a new brake rotor on there and it will give you a nice round smooth place to indicate.
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"Tramming" or squaring a drill press?
- Thread starter ScrapMetal
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Scrap,
You need to remember that a drill press is seldom a precision machine. Any drill bit is going to wander, particularly the smaller ones. Just put a longer straight piece of round stock in the chuck then use a machinist square in several places to see if is perpendicular to the table. If not, adjust the table until it is perpendicular. It doesn't matter if the table is level or not. You just want the table to be square to the quill/drill bit.
Randy
You need to remember that a drill press is seldom a precision machine. Any drill bit is going to wander, particularly the smaller ones. Just put a longer straight piece of round stock in the chuck then use a machinist square in several places to see if is perpendicular to the table. If not, adjust the table until it is perpendicular. It doesn't matter if the table is level or not. You just want the table to be square to the quill/drill bit.
Randy
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