drill press assembly

[Terry]

Acetone will likely work. Benzene, toluene or tetrachloroethylene would
certainly work, but they are kinda nasty. I think I might have used Acetone
to clean mine when new.

Check your runout on that chuck. Most chucks on new drill presses cost about
$3. If you are not completely happy with the stability (runout) of your new
drill, spend about $100 and get a nice after-market chuck that drills
properly. That's what I did on my Crapsman drill press and realized a
1,000%n (my estimate) increase in drilling accuracy.

Terry Farrell


> Shop rats,
> I am assembling my new Delta drill press, and at the last step -- 
> attaching the chuck to the spindle.  Before I pound the chuck onto the
> spindle taper (which seems  rather unelegant to this 'no heavy
> equipment' field technician) I am instructed to remove all the packing
> grease gunk from the components. Household oven cleaner is suggested,
> and I sprayed some on last night. As I'm getting ready to wipe the stuff
> off, I'm wondering if acetone would have been equally effective, and if
> I could use acetone to rinse off the oven cleaner lye solution.
> Hoping not to burn my hands and eyes off,
> Patrick Draine