Can You Use Router Bits In A Drill Press??? Lets Find Out!

Can you use router bits in a drill press? watch to find out.

This is not safe, Don't try this at home. I am not even sure why I did....

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[jenimbusy]

Oh, I did Shot a 2x4 200MPH thru an old barn door. Killed a cow. Nope. NEXT!

[evanbarnes]

Hey man! I wanted to give some advice. I did some pretty serious experimentation with this same idea, going so far as to make a drill powered carriage for holding work pieces and moving them linearly to cut mortises. I used thread rod as a lead screw, and chucked it into a drill to provide constant feed rates. The thing I didn't know or expect at the time is that the Morse taper with which the chuck press-fits into the mandrel is not at all good at dealing with radial loads. They're only designed for axial loading. So the sideways forces of cutting mortises are actually destabilizing enough to suddenly drop the chuck right out of the mandrel. That happened to me, and the thing is, you don't know where that assembly is going to fly off to. Or just how badly it's going to explode the workpiece, as happened in my case. It turned my workpiece into splinters. I was using a half inch straight flute router bit to cut a large mortise at the time. I felt likei was onto something with the idea at the time to, but as it turns out, neither you nor I are anywhere near the first people to think of using a drill press as a mill. I'm pretty sure that some people have done successful conversions, but if you want to attempt it, I highly suggest doing research first. Really though, I'd instead suggest that you ask yourself why it is that you want to use the drill press as a mill. Clearly you have a router, so what is it that your router lacks that you're hoping to get with the drill press? In my case, I needed to be able to use half inch shank router bits, but only had a trim router. I figured, those fit in the drill press chuck, why not just use the drill press? Ultimately though, after several close calls and scary moments, I decided to drop the cash on a Triton TRA001 3+ HP router that could handle those bits, and haven't looked back for a moment. It was expensive, but much less so than surgery to try to reattach fingertips. And I've found so many great uses for the router since then! There are so many jigs and router table accessories that you can make that should take care of your needs. Mills are really very different machines in spite of looking a lot like drill presses. One big difference is in the draw bar and collet system they use instead of Morse taper chucks. Stay safe dude!

[jordanwirth]

Next week: How to make a planer by spinning a butchers cleaver in a lathe!

[maxquigley]

I was going to try this. Thanks for risking your drill press, fingers and eyes for me. You've convinced me to get or build a table for my router instead.

[collinsmetro]

This is my kind of guy. I once used a outboard engine to beat my eggs for breakfast.

[macrumpton]

I am surprised it worked so well. Drill presses are designed to cope with vertical stresses, not horizontal ones, so they use a tapered spindle to hold the chuck. You release the spindle by tapping it horizontally. You are lucky the chuck didn't just pop out and shoot across the shop at warp 9, taking out everything in its path.

[pabrowncoatbrewer]

“So I rewired it.” - Tim “The Toolman” Taylor

[johnhaggerty]

Had a guy come through the ED with a mangled hand from doing this just last week. Half of his R (dominant hand) index and middle fingers were gone. Had been wood working for 50+ years and just started to try this a few weeks ago.

[PowerScissor]

This is a great idea!

Another good tip if you're getting tearout on the backside of holes. Set the work-piece on your thighs and then drill. The meat of your quadricep will help with the tear-out, and the blood will lubricate the drill for easier reversal out the hole with less burning.

You're limited to about 1 hole every 3 weeks, with healing time in between...but it's worked great for me.

[mikebrown]

You gotta like a guy that does his own stunts on his own channel! Keep up the great videos and be safe!

[greifinn]

thats what i love about youtube i can watch someone else make the mistakes i thought were innovated projects.

[eod]

I’m not going to criticize you because the only difference between you and other woodworkers
is you had a camera rolling. Most all of us have tried questionable techniques. Keep up the good work and stay safe.

[firecrackerg]

Next video: how to put fingers back on with a hot glue gun.

[ROGER]

Now try putting a drill bit in a router and see what happens. Start with a spade bit. (Call 911 first and they should get there just in time.)

[Book-Gnome]

I currently work as an ER nurse, so many entertaining visits started with "hold my beer and watch this".

[alexrozalek]

This video reminded me how I messed up my thumb in high school. Thanks for making this video for future generations.

[ohwingman]

The one key piece missing here that would prevent the tear out at the start is a simple fence clamped down to the table. If the piece is up against a fence it cannot grab and go charging across the end. Look at how a router table is set up and then envision it with the router above the table instead of below. You seemed to be concerned about the speed of the drill press but the fact of the matter is it's the cutting surface speed that counts. For example: If you have a cutter that is 1" in diameter the circumference would be 3.14". If you wanted to cut at a rate of 100 rpm your cutting surface speed would be 100 rpm x 3.14" = 314" per minute or 26.18 Feet Per Minute. If your cutter was 3" then its circumference would be 9.42". To have the same surface speed as the 1" cutter you would have to drop your RPM to 33.33 to get a surface cutting speed of 26.16 FPM. RPM means nothing. It is all about surface speed in feet per minute. The same formulas apply to lathes and milling machines.

[FORKinFISH]

Great idea, next week avoiding tear out when drilling, by using your leg as a backer, keep up the good work!

[dannyhale]

I'm a retired paramedic. So, um, yeah. Not sure what to think about this one. Just remember; never do anything that might be difficult to explain to a 911 dispatcher before you lose consciousness from the blood loss. I've been enjoying your channel for a while now. So make sure you still have enough fingers to keep doing what you do.

[politic]

You just answered my biggest concern about having this machine as a possible multitask tool, thank you so much.