🔧 HHIP 3900 0176 Drill Press Opening: Enhanced Performance and Precision Review

Serious disappointment because I bought the 5" version and the description says "Jaws are 5" wide and 1.5" deep." The depth is actually 0, 75 inches (half of what is advertised) making it unusable for what I need it for. Product description needs to be corrected! jaw depth.

For a DIY enthusiast this is just the ticket. This is not a professional precision drill vise and you may need to work on it a bit to get smoother operation. The sticks don't move perfectly parallel, but I wasn't expecting that, they straighten up when pressure is applied. I took it apart, stripped the paint over the spray and sanded down some of the poorly finished areas to smooth them out and applied a light coat of lube to all surfaces where there was contact between moving parts. Works very

Great for my use, just a heavy duty vise to hold small light objects under my drill. As you can see in the photo, it has a screw clamp: it's not an xy-axis router table, it's just a nice little vise, so it doesn't cost six hundred bucks like a Palmgren router vise. a really heavy, flat vise: clamp something in, put everything under the drill, and drill a hole. All the while, the weight of the vise keeps things level and straight, and keeps your fingers off the drill and chuck. The vise opened…