I punched,center drilled and then drilled and tapped 3/48 screws by hand.Not worth going to a lot of extra work so a drill press can be used. Your just mounting the scale, no real accuracy is involved.
mike
From: pdxrobpotter <rob@potter.org>
To: GrizHFMinimill@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:21 PM
Subject: [GrizHFMinimill] Advice on Drilling Column
I know this is pretty trivial, but I need to drill and tap some holes in the column of my LMS mill to mount a DRO scale and some other bits and pieces. I'm looking for advice from those of you who've gone boldly before: Am I better off disassembling things so I can use a drill press, or would it work just as well to leave everything assembled and simply use a hand drill with the inherent reduction in accuracy? What approach did you use?
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