How long things take: the machine about 2 weeks, bits and small tools about a week, and two items ship in a few days from a US warehouse. Here is whyMachine about 2 weeks. Why?
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Before you buy a small drill press

Two emails, then we leave you alone. The first is the five things worth checking before you spend $149 on a machine like this - the two that are worth paying more for, and the three that are not. It carries 7% off your first order. The second, a day later, is who should not buy one of these at all, and it carries 10%.

No countdown and no fake sale. The second code is simply the bigger one, and we would rather tell you that now than have you find out afterwards.
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  • Cross-slide worktable with the vise fitted
  • The two handwheels with graduated collars
  • Swivel base with the angle scale
  • Steel vise jaws on the table
  • Slots in the base for clamping to a machine table
  • The table seen from above
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Cross-slide worktable with vise

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Description

A drill press holds the bit still and lets you move nothing. This is the part that moves the work. An aluminium table on two screws, a steel vise bolted on top, and a handwheel for each axis, so you wind the part to where the next hole goes instead of nudging it and hoping.

What it does

Turn the front handwheel and the table travels toward you. Turn the side one and it travels across. Each wheel has a graduated collar, so a hole 12 mm from the last one is twelve marks, not a guess and a ruler.

The green base swivels. Loosen it, turn the whole assembly to an angle, lock it, and the two axes now run at that angle instead of square to the bench. That is how you drill a row of holes along a line that is not parallel to anything.

The vise on top is steel with flat jaws, and it comes already fitted. It is not a separate purchase.

This one is not for our machine

We need to be blunt about this, because it is the first thing you will want to know. It does not go on the Mikrabench drill press. It weighs 2.6 kg and it is built for a full-size bench drill press or a small mill - the base has slots so you clamp it to that machine's table.

If your machine is the little 12 volt one, the tool you want is the XY stage, 60 mm, which bolts straight to its base. This page is for the bigger press you already own.

Shipping

This is the second thing on the site that does not come from overseas. The supplier holds it in a warehouse in the United States, and quotes about a week to ten days. That is their figure. We have not timed a shipment yet, and when we have, the real number goes here.

What the maker publishes, and what it does not

Model BG-6369. Aluminium alloy table and base, steel vise. It ships in a 25 by 25 by 17 cm box at 2.62 kg.

What the maker does not publish anywhere we can find is how far each axis actually travels, or how wide the vise opens. We are not going to invent those numbers or borrow them from a similar-looking table. When we have one on the bench we will measure it and print what we measured.

Honest limits

Owners report a little play in the leadscrews. That is what an aluminium table at this price is: it will put a hole where you wound it to within a fraction of a millimetre, and it is not a machine-tool slide. Wind up to a position from one direction rather than backing into it and the play stops mattering.

It is a positioning table, not a mill. Side load from an end mill is more than this is built for, and more than a drill press spindle is built for either.

Shipping is free on every US order, tracked, with no minimum. Orders are processed within 2 business days.

After that the number depends on what you bought, and each product page gives its own. The drill press takes about 2 weeks - we do not hold stock of it, so it comes from the workshop that builds it. Bits, punches and the small consumables take about 6 to 10 business days because those do ship from stock. The engraving ball vise and the cross-slide worktable leave a US warehouse and arrive in a few days - those two are the fast ones. If one order has several of these, they can arrive separately and you are not charged twice.

You get a tracking number by email as soon as the parcel is scanned, not before. A link that sits at label created for a few days is normal on this route.

Returns: 30 days from delivery, unused and in its packaging. Nothing is excluded - there is no rule here about sale items. If it arrived damaged or does not hold tolerance, we pay the return label. If you simply changed your mind, the return postage is yours and the price of the item comes back in full. Email support@arvonelle.com before sending anything back.

Will it plug into a US outlet? Yes. The drill press adapter comes with US blades on it, and no travel adapter is needed. This answer used to say the opposite, and it was true when it said so - we moved to a supplier who ships the US version and changed the page the same day. The listing states 100-240 V, so no converter either, but we have not put a meter on one ourselves and the machine's page says the same thing.

Can it mill? As it ships, no. Milling needs an ER11 collet spindle in place of the drill chuck, because side load pulls a bit out of a chuck. That spindle is a real part and we are sourcing it. Until it is on the shelf we do not sell collets or end mills either.

Do your vises fit the press? The ones meant for drilling do - the drill press vise and the brass vise on its XY stage bolt to the base as it comes. The bench vises do not bolt down and must not go under a spinning bit. The engraving ball vise, the toolmaker's vise and the cross-slide worktable are bench tools too, and the cross-slide is sized for a full-size drill press rather than this one. Every page says which it is.

Do I pay tax or duty? Sales tax is added at checkout where your state charges it, and the total you see is the total. You pay us nothing after the order. If a carrier ever asks you for a fee on a parcel from us, do not pay it - send us the notice first and we will sort it out with you.

What if a part breaks? For twelve months, tell us which part and we post a new one free. No return, no inspection, no photograph of the packaging.

Can I cancel? Yes, within 24 hours, no questions. After that it is usually already moving.

Why trust a shop you have never heard of? You should not, on our say-so. Check instead that every page tells you what the tool will not do, that each product carries its own delivery number, that we say which figures we measured and which we were told, and that when we get something wrong we say what the page used to say.

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If something goes wrong


If your order arrives damaged or defective, email support@arvonelle.com with your order number and a photo. We replace it or refund it — you don't have to argue for it.