ABS/Tagan Black Pearl - evolution of a water-cooled rig

[kgtiger]

Please be really careful of them, they look simple, however they will and do bite, big time if you give them a chance.

The best advice I can give you is clamp every thing down so it is held tight.
Always ware clear, clean safety glasses.

Drilling holes whith a drill press is heaps easier, however, as you can apply heaps more pressure to the drill bits.
The chance of them grabing is also that much higher.
Just clamp all jobs down tight, use a vice to clamp small items in, also clamp/bolt vice down, drill large holes at slow speed,
(not sure if you change speed by a switch or by changing the position of the v belt on the pullies up top), use coolant.
ALWAYS
Keep loose clothing tucked in, use hair ties for long hair or a hair net, hat will do.
Do Not try to remove swarf ( the spirally stuff that comes off the drill bits when drilling) from the drill as it is turning, even if it has been turned of but has not stoped.
As it is really sharp and will cut your hands/fingers to shreds or can/will pull your hands into the drill bit as it turns.

I have seen people that I have work with for years, loose one and half fingers as a result of not clamping down piece of thin plate.
The drill bit grabed the plate, spinning the plate around, his fingers where over the edge of the plate and have been cut off by the base/bed or by hitting the post.
I have seen a large sections of hair and scalp removed from a guys head when his long hair got cought by the rotating swarf as he was pulled into the drill.
Not nice at all.

I don't mean to scare you, but I do want you to be knowledgeable and safe.