What's wrong with my mill/drill and improving it

I built this machine primarily as a milling machine last year. Its not quite stiff enough to be a good milling machine, but I love using it as a drill press with XY table. So making improvements to the mechanism for setting the drill height, as well as making a better rack and pinion plunge mechanism using a lantern gear

[Lego]

10 years of innovation and creating stuff. On top of repurposing and fixing other stuff. I've learned a lot watching you do all of this, so thank you for your contributions to the education and entertainment of the world.

[XykoZ]

I love seeing the Dead Internet Theory come to life in the comments in the first few minutes of these videos going live. Oh, I still love your stuff Matthias after all these years :)

[BuriedAliveBySquirrels]

I really loved seeing that lantern gear assembly come together. It's amazing, too, how often the answer to a problem comes after a good night's rest, like part of our brain just subconsciously stays fixated on it. I kid you not, it has been some 13 years since I graduated from college, and only just the other day did I suddenly arrive at a solution to a problem I had during my senior design project while I was describing it to my wife. I guess at least one brain cell was left to solve the problem on its own all these years.

[haroldchoate]

Others have expressed admiration and respect for your work. I join them in their praise. You were the first, later to come were Jer Schmidt, Marius Hornberger, Pask, Kurtis and a host of others inventing and creating a variety of tools. You are all my heroes. Thank you,

[howa]

That rack and pinion was beautiful. As always I appreciate the table saw safety as well😊

[ExodusK]

Seeing my man drop, "So I'm cutting out a lantern gear on my CNC" while his DIY CNC made of salvaged plywood and construction lumber works in the background has got me dying. You give Matthias a bucket of rusty bolts, an old bed frame, and a few laser pointers and he'll have an interferometer detecting gravity waves in time for the next video to drop. But it'll only have a precision able to detect super massive black hole mergers until he can get his kids to stop jumping on their beds and shaking the equipment.

[JesusUruchurtu]

This level of creativity and practical engineering is what I imagine people like DaVinci thought of a long time ago. Matthias is one of those people that you can just give a problem and a timeframe and they'll come up with a creative solution.

[sampull]

I’ve been watching you since the marble maze days when you were still at RIM! Keep up the great work!

[messaoudkrioua]

I never get bored watching your videos...Thank you for 14 years (since I subscribed to your channel) of sharing your experience with us.

[checkedoutchris]

AGAIN! You blow my mind. I love how you design build. All with readily available materials. Thanks for all your great content. I've been using your gear generator program for years!
Keep it up. 😃

[marcosmarcos]

Hello, i am happy to see you are still creating content. Used to watch your videos like 10 years ago, making some projects, but then other things got higher priority. Cheers!

[kenl]

You might just be the most humble and heartwarming person to ever exist ! ! !

[LeesChannel]

I really enjoy seeing the process of improving your machines.

[Don.Challenger]

Your tutorial method of using faked flubs to explain the comparative merits of design choices, rather than just explaining those choices directly, is a very powerful teaching method in itself. The miniature model is fine too but those are relatively commonly used. Mr. Wandel is a very deep pool of intellect.

[ksbs]

That was tremendous fun Matthias. Thanks for the video

[Tanuki.Express]

I was on the fence about getting the keyless chucks. Looks like I’m putting that earmarked cash into the direct drive sander fund.

Impressive work as always, Matthias.

[calebbell]

So funny to see you use some of the tools you always joked you didn't need to improve on another tool you built almost as a joke. Very enjoyable!

[txkflier]

Wow, that was neat watching you figure all that out. I would have never thought of making a rack and pinion like that. Great video, as always..

[jareddean]

I love seeing the sheer variety of tools you're using to get this job done!

[drewgi]

There's always something so satisfying about using a tool to upgrade the same tool!