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but I am fair you little scumbag you will not laugh you will not cry you will learn by the

numbers I will teach you now get up get on your feet holy smokes I forgot how intense that guy

was welcome to Flynn dog woodwork So today we're going to take it down a couple of notches and not

be a drill instructor but be a drill inspector I've got a quick and easy upgrade for the drill

press that should take less than an hour so let's get started with this build so today's video is

really going to be a simple little build all you're going to need is a little bit of plywood

and a few magnets the other nice thing about this project is you can customize it to any Dimensions

that you want so what is this project well let's go over to the drill press and talk about it so

most drill presses right out of the box come with a small little cast iron table and this thing is

really hard to work with if you're dealing with larger pieces of wood so we're going to try to

maximize this table and make it a little bigger if we take a look at my current Table it's only six

and a half inches wide by seven and three quarter inches long now I've built a couple of drill press

tables in the past and I've even added things like fences to give me a little bit more versatility

and I know that fences can allow you to do a lot of repetitive drilling without making many

adjustments the problem is I can probably count on one hand how many times I've used my drill

press fence and a lot of times instead of helping it just gets in the way the other thing about my

past drill press tables is they are always secured to the cast iron table with a couple of screws so

they were very difficult to remove so I wanted to create a drill press table that I could easily add

to the drill press or remove without a whole lot of effort and that's what we're going to build

today so let's go over to the assembly table and start laying this out so as I said before there's

really not a whole lot of material involved in this project we're going to use a piece of three

quarter inch plywood along with four one inch rare earth magnets we also might use a couple of strips

of hardwood to pretty it up in the end so the first thing that we want to do is to determine

the actual dimensions of the table and this this is the part that's completely customizable you can

make this table any size that you want so let's go over to the drill press and figure out what

our dimensions are so if I go over to the drill press I just want to get an idea of how big I want

this table and in this case I think I want to go about 15 inches wide and approximately 10 inches

deep so we'll go to the table saw cut out these dimensions and see how it looks on our drill press

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so if I place my test piece on top of my drill press table this is exactly the size that I'm

looking for so what we need to do now is to make a secondary piece with the exact same

dimensions now you should be able to use some of your cutoffs to make this piece as you can

see here this piece is already at 12 inches so I just need to cut it down to 10 inches

so the next thing that I want to do is to determine the size of the removable wasteboard

for this table and for this table I think I want to go about three inches wide on the waste board

so let's go cut out some three inch strips so since these waste boards are replaceable I want

to cut out a number of these pieces I've already set a stop block at three inches

exactly on my miter saw so I'm going to cut out about three or four of these waste boards

okay

so if we go back to our tabletop you can see how our wasteboards will slide right

into this top piece of plywood and then once it gets beat up we can replace it with another

piece so what we need to do next is find the exact center of the top piece of plywood now

this doesn't have to be exactly precise as we'll be cutting off the waist in the end now for this

I'm going to use a center scale ruler now this is a really expensive one and there's a lot of

cheaper ones out there so I'll leave links in the description for this one and some cheaper

ones since we're going half of 15 inches that's right at seven and a half inches on either side

so I'll strike a line right at the zero Mark after that I can carry my line across the board

once I've done that I'll Center my board so that the line intersects

with the center of the blade I'll lock down my fence and make the cut

the next step is I place the bottom side of the table as well as one of the waste boards

and I've struck a line at the exact center of each of those boards we're going to use those

lines for alignment purposes those lines will allow us to make sure that the waist board is

directly in the center of the table top when we go to laminate the sides so what we'll do

now is we'll Place some double-sided tape on the very center of this board

with the backing removed we now can take our waste board and directly align those two centers

with the waste board in place we can now laminate the two sides of

the table top when we glue it up we want to make sure that we don't have

too much glue close to the wasteboard as we don't want any glue squeeze out

with it all glued up we can now remove the wasteboard and make sure that there's no

squeeze out in the seams now to expedite this glue up process a

little bit I'm going to pre-drill and countersink four screws onto each side

of this table this is something that definitely does not need to be done

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so now that we have the basic frame of the table belt it's now time to place it on the

drill press and see how it fits once we have it on the drill press we're going to take the

table that's currently on the drill press and trace it on the very bottom of this table so

let's do that next so as you can see this table fits very nicely on the drill press we still

have the two Wings on either side that we're going to cut off at the very end what we want

to do now is to trace this cast iron table onto the bottom of this table so let's do that next

so what this tracing will do is it allows us to provide a support lip to cradle that cast

iron table this will allow us to easily slide this drill press table on and off to that cast

iron table now you should have some scrap that can easily be used for that support lip what

I'm going to do next is I'm going to glue that support lip on and put a couple of screws in it

so now that we have the lip installed let's go over to the drill press and see how it fits on

that cast iron table and as you can see it fits very nicely on that cast iron table and slides

easily into place so now let's talk about these magnets these rare earth magnets are what are

going to hold this table securely into place on that cast iron table so what we need to do

is we need to find the appropriate forstner bit that will be just a little bit larger than that

magnet and in this case it's one and a quarter inches wide so what I'm going to do is I'm

going to place each one of the four magnets in a corner I want to make sure that each one of these

magnets will intersect with that cast iron table once I have them into place I'll Trace each one

now that I have these circles traced I then can take a forstner bit and drill

out each one of those circles so now that I have my one and a quarter inch forstner

bit installed I'm just going to bore out a little bit on each one of these circles

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so now that we have the four holes drilled out so that the magnets will sit completely flush with

the bottom of this table I'm now going to take some CA glue and attach each one of these magnets

and I'm really going to load it up with CA glue here

so now that we have those four magnets installed it's really just a matter of cleaning this thing

up and making it look just a little nicer but before we do that let's go slide this

onto the drill press table and see how it fits and as you can see this table slides

very nicely onto that cast iron and it's got a little bit of resistance from those magnets

so the only things left to do is to cut off each one of the Wings on the side and I'll

do that over at the miter saw and then I'll put a border on it just to clean it up a bit

so now that I have the table all sized up I'm simply going to grab a couple of

scraps here that are cut off some previous projects and just put a small border around

the edges so I've cut down those scraps to size so I'm just going to use a little bit

of wood glue and some Bandy clamps to attach the borders to this table

so after letting the glue set up in those clamps for a couple of hours you can now

see that I have a nice mahogany border now what I'm going to do next is I'm going to

hand sand this and then I'm going to take some Danish oil to finish it off

so I did want to mention that I did take a sharpie and sort of blacken out the very bottom lip of

this table that's because I didn't have any scraps that were wide enough to fit the entire width

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so that Danish oil isn't going to provide a bunch of protection however it is going to

bring out that wood color and that's really all I'm looking for this is just shop Furniture so

it really doesn't matter that much the only thing left to do is to put this on the drill

press and see how it works so here's the drill press as it comes from the factory

it's got the cast iron table and that's why we made this new table top with its magnetic

base it slides right into place and is very secure the other nice thing about this table

is we do have some backer boards here that are replaceable once they get marred up so

if this one gets marred up I can simply take another one and slide it right in

another nice thing about this drill press table is not only is it easy to install but it's also

easy to move if you need to work with some metals you can work with a cast iron table

and then once you're done you can simply reapply the table well I couldn't be more impressed with

this new drill press table this thing only took me a couple of hours and that's with all of my

filming this thing has all the flexibility and the functionality that I need in my current Workshop

well I hope you enjoyed today's video this was a fun little build and it's something you can do in

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