praxeology, 7 months ago

Our sustainable, hand-cranked drill press is very popular with both the junior and senior wood-workers here. The flywheel applies enough pressure to do medium-bore forstner bits and smaller-bore stuff in metal. Much quieter and more fun than the electric alternatives.

Not bad for a tool that's about 100 years old.

#woodworking

The drill press has a large metal flywheel on the top, a clutch knob on the left and a wooden crank handle on the right. The turning axle extends downward as it's cranked.
A reasonably tidy looking hole (~30mm) in a piece of sycamore (London Plane) wood.
A picture from the right side. You can see there are two crank axles for two speeds.