Drill Press Flip Stop: 3D Print a Repeatable Stop for Batch Drilling

A drill press table fitted with a wooden fence and a bright orange 3D printed flip stop locked down against the end of a pine board positioned under

Introduction Batch drilling sounds simple until part nine of twenty-four. Every board gets measured, marked, aligned by eye, and drilled — and by the end of the run the holes have wandered a millimeter here and a millimeter there, which only becomes obvious when the batch is assembled and nothing quite lines up. The professional … Read more