My old drill press was way too big, so
I got the smaller, lighter benchtop one. Check it. This is my old drill press. Now I'm going to say some things
that I don't like about it. It's a good drill press. There's no doubt it
drills holes just fine. But I didn't like the chuck that came
with it because the key would slip and you'd bust your knuckles
on your all the time. So I ended up replacing the
Chuck with a keyless Chuck, so that worked out great. The travel per rotation I wish was a
little bit greater cause I would find myself getting so far. Then having
to use my other hand to hold this, to reposition to get onto
the next lever, to pull down. Petty little annoyances,
trivial annoyances. I'm aware. But the one thing that just drove me
absolutely bonkers was the depth stop on this guy. It takes a long time for this to turn
and tuh get it to where you want it to be and then you got to do the
same thing with the other one. It's when you're in the flow,
when you're in the zone, you don't want things like a silly
little depths up to just ruin your day. I'm hoping that this new
one fixes all the things, takes up way less space, doesn't need a floor stand and just is
more of what I'm looking for in a wood shop. This guy is going to live out here in
the garage and my metal shop and the new one that's going to be our
new woodworking drill press, so let's go back inside and unbox it. This is the first drill press I ever
purchased that had a USB cable in the package. No idea, no idea. I will say we put the whole thing together
and about 10 to 15 minutes without even opening the instructions, so the
assembly was pretty quick and painless. This is the Nova Viking bench-top drill
press and I will say it's a little bit bigger than I was expecting. My old bench-top drill
press was way smaller, but that's okay. The
great thing about this, it has the direct drive motor on top, so that means it doesn't need a
lot of depth and there's no belts. So this will sit perfect
on one of the benches. My, my work bench here is a
little higher than normal, so it won't actually be this high. But let's go over some of
the really cool features. It's got a direct drive motor
and a consistent power torque, meaning like you're
drilling into something. If you had a belt system like a normal
drill press, it might slip and slow down. This guy will make up for it in
torque and keep that consistent speed, which is really cool. It's got a little variable speed knob on
there so you don't have to move around and change belts. You can do that. All
right here. We should plug it in. Dan. Let's plug it in. This is it. Oh, ah, That say DP for David
Picciuto? Can I, can I, I need to say something right now. I
paid for this. This is not sponsored. Nobody's making me say anything. I paid for this with cash money
that I made from selling drugs. So this is mine. This is my drill
press. I can do whatever I want to it. I can cover up the name.
I could take a leak on it. I'm not going to cause I don't
want to get urine in the carpet. It's got forward and reverse. Dan. What
would I use? Reverse for? Go backwards. Left handed drill bits. Left hand. Is that a thing? Okay. Oh, for left-handed drill bits. I didn't know why is why or why or
reverse drove. It's called lefthanded. That seems insensitive. So I
can set the depth stop. Oh, here we go. Yeah. On. No, You hear that? That sounds... What? Wait. Did you see that? Did you
get that on camera? Check this out. You go. I got my depths up set and a half
inch and it stops and goes in reverse! What, what a time to be alive, Dan. Come
here. Come here. Come here. Come here. What a time to be alive.
It's out of focus? Who cares? Um, so let's do that again. So you take this, you bring it down to your piece of wood, we're going to zero it out at zero
right there. So I lift this up, goes to negative. Let's set our depth. We want to drill a hole that
is a quarter of an inch deep. Confirm our depth is set. We can hit self-start so we can do a
one handed operation. Check this out, check this out. It
automatically starts up, you can hear it beeping. And then
when it gets to a quarter of an inch, it reverses itself and
then automatically stops. I didn't even know this was possible. Every project from here on out is going
to use the drill press every single one for no reason. That's pretty cool. Accurate
dude, this is exciting. All right. And then, uh, check out
our, our variable speed. That's slow and speed that up. And then as soon as it hits that depth, puts it in reverse. How cool is that? So the quill trouble of this
guy is four and a half inches. On my big old floor-standing
drill press, it only had three. What's so funny, Dan? Oh, this guy has four and a half inches
of quill travel. My other drill press, the big old floor-standing one
only had three and an eighth. So even though I'm downsizing,
I'm upgrading in so many ways, it takes up less space.
I can drill further. I can do cool types of drill operations. Perfect. Stop, stop, stop. I don't have
to worry about that. Stop anymore. Yeah. Uh, I guess we need, Oh, before we
find a home for it, I got a fence. Let's, uh, let's check
out what this fence is. Still still have not even
opened up the instructions. We figured this all, we figured this
space, age, technology all by ourselves. All right, so we got the,
got the fence on there. It locks those two knobs back there
and then this little stop, right Dan, you want the USB cable? Okay.
Maybe use it for your printer. DVR technology. You can
record Game of Thrones. I just dated myself. There's no
more gGame of Thrones. Come on. Yeah, I think that's what
this tool is for. Boop. I think.. So... Obviously this guy is super freaking cool. If I could change anything about it. Um, and maybe there's a reason
for this being circular, but I would actually like this to be
square so I could quickly make inserts on the table saw and drop them in there. I mean I could cut out a bunch with the
bandsaw or the CNC or even a hole saw, but I like squares just
easier. It's hip to be square. The other thing is, um,
the fence is get in there. All right, get in. There you go. It's a
nice, good, good, good tolerance there. The fence, it rides on these,
these slots right here. So it's not like super
easy tuh move in and out. It's you gotta you gotta kinda do a thing, you get it in position
and then you lock it down. Where on a fence that
you would make yourself, you would have the T track in there
and it would just slide back and forth. I may replace the fence or make my
own fence in the future or something. It's a little bit easier to maneuver
but it's a good, it's a good build, but just the way drill press tables
are designed doesn't make this a quick, super easy loosen move into place, pop back into place thing. I mean again, petty little things. Things
that I can I can deal with. I can fix and plus if I
make my own wooden table, I can do the square top like we did with
the previous one and then install that third party fence in there. That's slides on the t-track so I can
make this the drill press of my dreams. It's already the drill
press of your dreams. Now I need to make it the
door press of my dreams. You love this drill press. You
do. So where should it go down? Okay. Dan I really need help know. Okay. I was sacrificing myself like
don't destroy the new table. Don't destroy the new table. There it is. I don't know if this
is going to be its final home. I want to test it out here. It's not in the way of the
router and the miter saw, but it is sort of in the way of
the lathe. The lathe Actually moves out in front here.
If it doesn't work, I'm going to move it to the other side
of the shop. If it does work here, it's a, uh, I've increased
a lot of shop space, so, um, yeah, I mean it's expensive.
It's.. For me it's worth it. When I buy tools, I'm looking for safety. There's some cool safety features on
there and I'm looking for convenience and speed and this has all of that. And hopefully this is the last
drill press I ever buy for the shop. If that's the case, then yes, of
course the money is worth it. Uh, final thoughts? Holy crap. This thing is super awesome. I will say I'm going to change
out the chuck for a keyless chuck. I've gotten too used to the keyless
chuck to have to deal with with this. I don't, I don't like that. Um, you know,
that's just an annoyance thing for me. Uh, I got a bolt it down. It's a,
it's a little wobbly. Um, the, uh, the fence, I think I'm going to make my own fence
for there so I can easily move it in and out and uh, I and just have a nice wooden top with
a little inserts that I've made on my previous one so I can swap out
the little waste board in there. So I'm going to make my own
fence and tabletop for that. Um, so the drill press is one of the
messiest tools in the shop by far. Because there are dust
collection solutions, but we all know that they don't work. People have tested them out and they're
annoying in the way or they just don't work very well. So I think I'm
going to make some sort of bin, that kind of collects to the table that
I'm gonna make and that'll just kind of collect the chips. Like especially
when you're using Forstner bits. forstner bits, just
throw chips everywhere. Just that one whole made quite a mess. So, and you don't want forstner uh,
chips on your carpet, right? So, uh, I'll make some sort of bin that can
catch the chips and maybe tuck away. I don't know. I'm going to, I'll engineer
something. I'll think of something. We'll think of something for sure.
So we'll work on that. But yeah, I am super excited. The features on
there, the self start, the self stop, the reverse, the variable speed, the depth set is just crazy amazing. The thing that annoyed me so much on the
other drill press is now the thing that I love on this drill press. Direct drive, super accurate with the,
that stop. Very, very, very happy with this
purchase. So that wraps it up. Uh, yeah. I don't got anything
else to say. So as always, be safe, have fun, stay passionate
and make something You can't even hear that. Put
my microphone up against it. Don't get your clothing caught in there.
