Review on 🔧 HHIP 3900 0176 Drill Press Opening: Enhanced Performance and Precision by Rich Ferguson

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 and closed super smooth and easy. There were lots of sticky, uncured paint drips on the vise: I think they paint the whole thing and then scrape the semi-cured paint off the exposed metal areas shown in the photo. I just wiped them with my hands and everything was fine. A huge "3" was cast into the vise frame, meaning the jaws had moved 3 inches apart. If I were to drill something larger it would probably be heavy enough not to need a vise, or I could just use clamps. This is great for most of my more unusual drilling needs: watch parts, telescope and microscope parts, various pens and knick-knacks. Any small thing that would get my fingers too close to the feed, or light objects that I would smash or rock without it. I was expecting to have to take the vise apart and clean or fix things, but they work right out of the box. The vice can be opened and closed very easily and quickly. An easy-to-use tool is used more often: no more holding something with pliers or flat on a table with your fingers, or clamping tiny objects with one clamp and then pressing that clamp against the table with another clamp. It's easy, fast and safe. I'm pleasantly surprised! Mike from Detroit.