You could slip some loose fitting plastic hose over the spring and pull-wire to restrain it if it ever broke perhaps.Originally Posted by Techo1
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You could slip some loose fitting plastic hose over the spring and pull-wire to restrain it if it ever broke perhaps.
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I would expect that the risk of a drill breaking or swarf drillings and doing damage to your eye is greater than the probability of a spring breaking .
Wearing safety eye ware while using the drill press will come naturally ?
Grahame
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Having no idea what a Richardson drill press looks like.
Weight and pulley systems work well as they don't "wind up" like spring systems.
If you have a the space
Stuart
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