How to use a Magnetic Drill Press

Great video

A contractor in my company lost yesterday one hand finger with a mag drill. Not completely clear the root cause, but it seems that a rag held by the injured person, used for cleaning, got caught with the drill. Very good video.

Come on man some mag drills do not need electricity for their magnet to work!!

It is cool to see the new ones stop the motor if the magnet disconnects.
I recently got an old school Black & Decker mag drill.
This model predates safety and will keep the motor running if the magnet loses connection.
It also weighs about 100 pounds.

Fabrication shop at the company I work for uses a mag drill weekly and all they use as lubricant is WD 40… never had any issues.. going on 10 years or so

How we found it to buy

Well presented common sense tips, most of which I never considered. I'm new at this, good effort, thanks.

Thanks for posting.

great stuff Donnie

using a crane to put the mag drill into postion BAHAHAHAH !!!!

Useless information video

Will this drill take a 1.25 bit?

Where is the guard for the moving part?

Awesome video. Thank you for teaching me.

How we can use this machine on ss surface .
If we have to drill horizontal

This is more a safety instruction video

Verry interesting. I wasn't know for the welder.. Thank you for these information

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Man, I just bought a gallon of WD40 intending on using it for cutter lube on my new (to me) mag drill. I won’t do that and will instead get some proper cutter fluid. Thank you for that. Definitely a close call avoided👍

I am actually an expert with many mag drills. I used to train guys and show them how to properly use these without breaking bits. I drilled thousands of holes in bridge girder webbing, flanges, plates, etc. I had to carry the drill to each beam. Was mostly done outside in the steel plant's yard(Maritime Steel in Dartmouth, NS. Now owned by Irving). It's 25 years later and I doubt I could carry that thing as easily, but back then, man, I was a machine.

Interesting to know about welding damaging mag drills thanks

Those are some serious safety precautions

very good video but i don't speak english. can you make another video in spanish please.

Thanks for posting. Using one for a 10 inch pipe, this drills minimum is my wall. Just a 1/8 27 for grease.