It does not always make sense and expediency to buy a factory-made drilling machine. You can make a vertical drilling machine from a drill with your own hands. To do this, you need a drill and materials for making a stand. Such equipment is recommended for use in home workshops or garages, when drilling is not the main operation or is performed quite rarely and the accuracy of the hole can be neglected.
To speed up the process, just buy a specialized drill stand in the tool store. The result is a semblance of a household-level vertical drilling machine, which is not inferior in drilling accuracy to machines for home workshops.
The photo shows drilling stands factory production. They can be purchased at any online tool store for prices starting at $200.
The article is intended to give you ideas on how to make a drilling machine from a drill yourself, so we do not give a clear algorithm for its manufacture, because it is made from improvised materials: some masters will have it, others will not. Therefore, we give the main ideas, and everyone will apply their own constructive solutions and make his own vertical homemade drilling machine.
If you are not looking for easy ways, then we will make a homemade stand. The rack can be made of wood or metal. Wood will be cheaper, easier to manufacture, but durability will suffer.
Metal ones are more complex, but have an incomparably longer resource and strength characteristics. The choice of rack material also depends on the workpieces being processed: with constant drilling of metal, it is better to make metal.
Metal racks are assembled from the corners for the carriage, square pipe 50x50 for the stand and 10x10 for the drill arm, strips for the base and lugs. The base and bracket are welded, after which all elements are assembled and bolted together. It is recommended to manufacture several brackets with different adapters (clamping rings) under different types drills. The carriage moves along the rod with the help of a steel cable wound around the handle drum. So that the carriage does not have play and does not fall down under its own weight, it is drilled, threaded and a bolt (or several bolts) is tightened. This selects the backlash between the carriage and the stand of the future drilling machine. The handle for moving the carriage is made from rolled products with a diameter of 6 - 8 mm.
By having several brackets with different clamping rings, it is possible to flexibly select drills and process almost any material.
In future homemade equipment can be upgraded and improved, for example, mark or install a scale that will indicate the length of the carriage movement. This helps when drilling blind holes.
There are several mounting methods:
Video of a design option from a drill on a wooden stand.
The easiest way to make homemade drilling design at home
A homemade drilling machine from a drill will never replace a factory one and will always be inferior in build quality and drilling accuracy. The main advantage of homemade - low price, the ability to drill holes when the factory machine is not available for one reason or another.
Construction stores offer us a huge range of various drilling machines in all price categories.
However, the cost is really quality model hits hard on the pocket, and there is no point in acquiring a cheap drilling machine from mass-produced Chinese manufacturers, the service life of which is ridiculous.
Much easier to buy good electric drill, and independently make a manual desktop home-made drilling machine based on it, which will fully meet all your requirements.
The cost of a quality drill is much less than that of a full-fledged drilling machine.
In addition, you can use an electric drill already available on the farm, since the design of the machine provides for the possibility of its quick dismantling, which allows you to use one drill both in stationary and manual mode.
A desktop drilling machine from a drill can be made based on metal pipes, or based on wooden parts. We recommend that you give preference to the second option, since it is much less laborious and does not require the use of either a grinder or a welding machine.
Wooden homemade machine has strength, which is more than enough for normal household use.
Such a do-it-yourself machine based on a drill, adhering to all the recommendations described below, can be made with your own hands within two hours, and it will serve you for more than one year.
In order to make a desktop drilling machine with your own hands, you will need the following materials:
Direct work is carried out using the following tools:
To create a base base for a homemade drilling machine, cut a 20 * 30 wooden beam with a hacksaw into four pieces, two of which are 17 centimeters long and two more are 20 centimeters long.
If you want to create a homemade machine based on a massive electric drill, then it would be better to make a larger base, since increasing its size will give the structure greater stability.
Next, prepare a board with dimensions of 200 * 220 * 20 millimeters (dimensions are given based on the above dimensions of the timber). Using self-tapping screws, connect the sections of the beam into one frame. To connect at each end of the beam, you need to use two self-tapping screws, if you use a beam of greater thickness, then you can screw in a self-tapping screw at each corner of the end.
Place a board on top of the resulting frame. Screw it with self-tapping screws around the perimeter of the beam, 2-3 bolts on one side will be more than enough.
To make your job easier, we recommend drill pre-holes in the boards, into which it is much easier to screw in self-tapping screws than into a solid board. To avoid the protrusion of the heads of the screws above wooden surface can be done with a drill larger diameter chamfer under their heads.
The width of the board for the column should correspond to the width of the created base, the thickness should be 20 mm, and the height is determined depending on the size of the drill used, as a rule, a height of 40-50 centimeters will be more than enough. An excessively high column can adversely affect the stability of the entire structure.
Once you have cut the board to the right size, immediately attach it to the base with self-tapping screws. Next, you need to equip the free space between the column itself and the electric drill, for this, fix two pieces of timber, 25 * 35 * 17 millimeters in size, parallel to each other in the center of the upper part of the column.
In order not to be mistaken with the installation site, perform preliminary marking. Draw a straight line from the center point of the top of the column down, then step back 50 mm on each side of the column, and draw two lines parallel to each other. The distance between the lines should be 100 mm.
Pay close attention to so that the lines are strictly parallel to each other, so even the slightest angle of inclination of the path along which the guides move is fraught with the fact that the drill will not enter the surface to be machined at a right angle, which is why when drilling hard metal surfaces thin drills will break very quickly.
Mounting guides is perhaps the most difficult part of creating a do-it-yourself drilling machine. It is extremely important that the guides run exactly perpendicular to the base of the machine and parallel to each other.
Prepare two boards measuring 100 * 250 * 20 mm, and mark on them the places where the retractable rails will be attached. Sold in furniture stores slide-out rails are already equipped with holes for self-tapping screws, so that you just have to screw them to the guides with your own hands. After the rails are attached, we mount the guides on the column.
We suggest that you make a universal mount with your own hands, which is suitable for installing not only a mini-drill, but also for a full-fledged electric drill. To do this, prepare a board measuring 60*100*20 for the top holder, and 100*100*20 for the bottom one.
Cut a hole in the center of the bottom board with a jigsaw, the diameter of which is suitable for securely fixing your drill. Attach it to the rail with furniture corner and self-tapping screws.
We also cut out the top holder for jigsaws. Its dimensions and outlines are individual, and depend on the shape of the drill you will use. We make holes around the perimeter of both clamps and screw in the screws that will be clamped and fix the drill in the holder motionlessly.
The height limiter is necessary so that a homemade drilling machine can make multiple holes that are identical in depth. Great for making a limiter. metal rod with M8 thread.
Drill a hole in the base into which the rod will be installed (it must be firmly fixed in the base, but at the same time rotate freely).
Next, we cut out a small piece of timber, drill a hole in it and install a threaded sleeve on one side, and a piece of the rod that will limit the amplitude of movement of the guides on the other. We twist the beam onto the main rod.
To make a manual bench drill the machine was more convenient to use, on the restrictive rod you need to make a handle.
It may be ordinary homemade emphasis made of plywood, which is fixedly fixed between two nuts.
In order to save time, you can buy a ready-made inexpensive stand and vise for a drill in the OBI.RU store, which allow you to fix the drill in a vertical position and use it as a drilling machine, thereby increasing the accuracy and speed of work.
Characteristics:
With the help of the usual hand drill almost impossible to manually drill strictly perpendicular hole in a thick bar, perform a series of precise parallel drillings. Buying even an inexpensive drilling machine for this purpose is extremely wasteful if such work is episodic.
There are special accessories for factory-made electric drills that expand their capabilities in this regard. Click on the small pictures on the right for a closer look.
Their use allows you to turn the drill into a kind of drilling machine. Of course, you can get one of these devices by choosing it for your tool, but you can make a drilling machine from a drill with your own hands. Let's consider several approaches to solving this problem.
Detailed drawings of such a device cannot be found even on the Internet. This is partly due to the multiplicity of approaches and technical solutions, and partly due to the simplicity and accessibility of methods for solving this problem. Let's analyze the ones that we managed to find.
This one is perhaps the most detailed and detailed. The main advantage of this arrangement is the absence of any gear pairs that provide vertical movement of the drill along the stand, which is the basis of the fixture. The spring-loaded holder moves along the rack by the distance between it and the lower stop, minus the thickness of the compressed spring. To prevent its rotation in the horizontal plane in the rack, obviously, a groove is made along which the screw 16 moves. The place of attachment of the tool in the holder is performed based on the parameters of a particular drill.
Even easier for self-implementation is a drawing of a wooden stand for a drill.
It does not show all dimensions, due to the fact that they are not of fundamental importance. And the lever feed system, as in the previous case, will ensure a strictly parallel movement of the electric drill along the rack. The holding of the tool in the upper position is achieved due to the friction forces in the grooves and on the side cheeks of the holder and is regulated by the tightening force of the self-tapping screws.
If you have a loose screw set, possibly from an old vise, then it can also be used for the tool feed system in a homemade electric drill stand.
For small drills, you can also use a regular threaded stud Ø 16-20 mm with a corresponding widened nut, which are sold in hardware stores.
We have selected for you easy-to-make, but in our opinion interesting rack designs for home-made drilling machines based on an electric drill.
Such a wooden stand can function successfully without a lever, and the instrument is raised and lowered either by the handle of the instrument itself or by the upper part of the box in which it is fixed.
An interesting design, in which the system of 2 levers is replaced by 1 with a longitudinal groove, along which the stop screw moves.
A productive method is the combination of materials for racks that allow you to turn an electric drill into a drilling machine. So, the main material for their manufacture is wood, but the most worn components are made of metal, which radically lengthens the life of the entire device.
An interesting design using industrially produced furniture skids as guides:
The high accuracy of their execution has practically no backlash.
The process of creating a stand for an electric drill is greatly simplified if you have a photo enlarger of any model at your disposal. It is unlikely that he will ever be able to serve you for its intended purpose, but a drilling machine will turn out great from it. After all, it already has in its design both guides and a gear rack for moving a rather heavy head along them, instead of which a holder for a drill should be hung.
No less productive is the option of converting old Volgovsk or Zhiguli rack jacks into a drill stand. After all, you do not need their entire height for the normal operation of such a device, but only a small gap of the screw.
To do this, it is enough to slightly modify the lifting lever, in which to fix the drill, and the thrust pad.
And here is the video:
You can do it even easier by firmly fixing the drill at the top of such a jack, and place a work table on the lever. Do not lower the drill for drilling, but raise the workpiece itself, especially since the lower part of the screw in such jacks is the least worn.
And in general, the same principle can be applied to fairly large and powerful drills, in any way securely fixed on a powerful stand of the future machine motionless. And you can make a small lifting table in the image and likeness shown in the video:
Or use a small rhombic for the same purpose car jack, providing it with a reliable base and replacing the upper stop with a working platform with vise or prism.
Moreover, both the first and the second can be made removable, and in long time intervals between drilling operations, the jack itself can be used for its intended purpose.
And yet, when we talk about a drilling machine, we mean something more solid than described in the previous section, and the material for such devices should be metal, even if we are talking about very small machines for low-power power tools, like this:
And even such a primitive design greatly expands the capabilities of a hand drill. But, how to make an almost full-fledged drilling machine with your own hands, without using complex technical solutions for this? Of the simple ones, the following construction seems to us the most reliable:
Its biggest drawback is the possibility of free rotation of the holder, and with it the drill, around the stand, but if instead round pipes apply square or rectangular, then this drawback will be eliminated. The main thing: very carefully choose the size of the gaps between the stand and the movable sleeve of the holder frame for the drill.
A slightly different, but not more complex, technical solution for supplying a tool to a part in which drilling is performed was carried out by home craftsman from the video:
If you only plan to pick up a specific drill model with the possibility of using it in conjunction with a device whose designs we have described above, then:
1. Give preference to a tool with a power of at least 1 kW.
2. Choose a model with a removable handle, fastened with a circular clip in the girth. They have a convenient wide cylindrical part on the body for mounting in a holder.
3. Choose a tool that has several speeds or smooth speed control.
4. The button on your drill should have a latch in the on position.
5. It is better to connect the drill on the stand to the mains through an outlet or extension cord with a power button, and firmly fix them on the frame in a place convenient for emergency shutdown.
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» From the material presented by the author, you will learn how you can independently make a budget drilling machine from a conventional electric drill.
Every craftsman would like to have such a machine in his household, because in comparison with factory analogues it will cost ten times cheaper, and if all spare parts and components are available, then it is generally free.
The author of this machine is Igor Stasyuk, for which he Thank you very much, shared step by step photos machine assembly with the people. The design is quite interesting and at the same time simple. Corners and 4 legs are welded onto the base from a 3 mm metal sheet, a 500 mm rod from a professional pipe is welded onto this plate square section, the slider is made of 2 corners welded into the pipe and put on the lifting column with a gap so that the slider can move up and down the column. lifting mechanism it is actuated by a cable stretched from the top point to the bottom, and on the slider the cable makes several turns.
And so, let's take a closer look at what exactly the author needed to assemble the machine? As well as the whole step-by-step process.
materials
1. sheet metal 3mm
2. armature
3. corner
4. cable
5. drill
6. workpiece vise
7. bolts, nuts, washers, engravers
8. drill clamp
9. paint
10.professional square pipe
11. drill
Instruments
1. welding machine
2. grinder (UShM)
3. drill
4. file
5. vise
6. clamp
7. caliper
8. ruler
9. corner
10th level
11. sandpaper
12. brush
13. hacksaw
14. emery
The process of creating a drilling machine from a drill.
And so, first of all, the author makes the base of the machine from sheet metal 3 mm, cuts the workpiece with a grinder (angle grinder) A in lower part welds 2 corners and 4 legs from a steel bar or reinforcement. The length of the legs should be the same so that there is no skew of the bed.
Welded corners and legs.
Making a slider! 2 corners are taken and applied to a square-section professional pipe that will serve as a lifting column and pulled together with a clamp.
At the edges, it is seized by welding in order to simply bait for now, and only then specifically boil a normal seam.
This is how the preparation turned out.
The lifting column is made of a professional square pipe 500 mm long.
A bracket with a movable shaft is welded onto the body of the slider, on which the turns of the cable will be made.
IN drilled hole thread is cut.
Handles of the lifting mechanism are made of fittings.
On the shaft there is such a head, which will be the basis for the handles.
And so, 3 handles are welded for the convenience of raising and lowering the drill through the mechanism.
Installed on a lifting column.
At the end of the cable, such a loop is made.
I hope the principle of lifting is clear and without explanation)
A square pipe is welded onto the corner.
Here is actually such a mount for an electric drill turned out.
Then a drill is installed and secured with a clamp of bolts and nuts.
Now let's go back to the lifting mechanism.
A nut is welded into the upper part of the lifting column and a bolt is screwed into it, a cable is fixed to the bolt itself, and when the bolt is tightened and unscrewed, the cable is tensioned to the optimum norm.
It is advisable to pre-lubricate the moving parts with grease or lithol.
These small vise can be purchased at hardware store in the tools section.
All details were polished by the master using sandpaper and then painted.
The thread is being cut.
And now the vise is screwed into its rightful place. And now the Author is already drilling holes in wooden handles for the machine.
For household chores, the functions of a drill may be sufficient, but more precise equipment may be needed to improve the quality and productivity of work. One of the most popular varieties is a do-it-yourself mini-drilling machine.
The first stage before production is to study the design. To do this, it is recommended to take a drawing of a standard machine and familiarize yourself with its components. Important to understand general principle functioning and further define optimal scheme homemade design.
Main functional purpose is to form holes various types. Depending on the configuration of the equipment, there may be drawings of vertical drilling, jig boring, radial drilling, filler models. The difference between them lies in the possibility of changing the direction of action cutting tool. For domestic needs, a vertical drilling mini-machine is most often made by hand.
Structurally, it should consist of the following elements:
Most often, for the production of a home-made drilling machine, do-it-yourself standard drawings are used, in which the electric motor is replaced with an electric drill. This allows you to reduce the complexity of the work. However, such designs are designed only for small loads.
Before self-production of a mini-machine, you should decide on the type of work performed on wood and metal. This will depend on the characteristics of the equipment.
The most popular model currently is a mini drill machine. To make it at home, you only need to make a bed and a rack.
In some cases, it can be done without using homemade items. To do this, you need a factory bed and a drill. It is not necessary to draw up drawings for this, however, such a design has one significant drawback - a large backlash. During the execution of work, the cutting tool is shifted relative to the drilling site. This must be considered before making a drilling machine.
It is best to use standard drawings for the production of a homemade drilling machine with your own hands. The production technology directly depends on the selected components. But experts recommend sticking to the following rules when choosing source material, as well as its processing:
During the execution of work, it is necessary to ensure the maximum accuracy of pairing of structural elements. The angle between the support post and the table should be 90 degrees. For filler models, the minimum thickness of the metal base plate must be at least 3 mm.
To increase the functionality of the equipment, you can do. It provides the ability to move the workpiece relative to the cutting tool. This will achieve maximum processing accuracy.
If the desktop drilling mini-machine will have unsatisfactory parameters, you can consider other drawings of a similar design. Their difference from the above model is the use of an electric motor as the main power plant.
Making such a design at home will be problematic, as it will take a lot of time and effort. The motor can be made from washing machine. The cartridge for attaching the cutting tool is not made by hand, it is taken from an old machine. Additionally, pulleys will be required to transmit torque.
In general, the technology remains the same. It is important to correctly calculate the optimal power of the electric motor, as well as provide for the possibility of changing the number of its revolutions. To do this, you can put a reducer.
As additional equipment you can make a vise at home. They will fix the parts to perform precise processing.
The video shows the exact diagram and drawings for do-it-yourself production:
