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Micro-feed kit with micrometer scale
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Description
A drill press quill goes down as far as your hand pushes it. That is fine once. It is not fine forty times, when every hole has to stop at the same depth.
This is the part that decides instead of your hand. A micrometer head on an L-shaped bracket, with a plunger underneath that the quill comes down onto. You wind the thimble to set where it stops.
What comes in the kit
- Micrometer head with its bracket and plunger
- A stepped cone pulley, seven grooves, cut for a round belt
- One socket head screw
- A set of hex keys, short ones and long ball-end ones
The pulley is the part people skip over in the photographs. A stepped pulley is how a belt machine changes speed - move the belt to a different groove and the spindle turns faster or slower. Our press runs a round belt, so the groove profile looks right, and that is as far as we will go until one is in front of us.
How it mounts
The maker shows one small photograph of it fitted, and it answers a question we had wrong. The bracket does not clamp around the column. It lies flat along the top of the head casting and bolts down, with the micrometer at the outer end and the plunger reaching down to meet the quill.
Which means the thing that decides whether it fits your machine is the bolt holes in the top of your head, not the diameter of your column. We have not yet checked ours against it. A sample is on its way and this paragraph gets rewritten from the bench, not from a photograph.
What the maker publishes, and what we are leaving out
The maker lists the material as an aluminium-copper alloy. Beyond that, the supplier's description is not about this part - it is a general article about micro-feed systems, the kind with headings like "common micro-feed structure types". The figure of 0.01 mm appears there with the word usually in front of it, describing micro-feed systems in general.
So it is not a specification, and we are not printing it as one. The thimble is graduated and we can see the numbers on it. What one division actually moves the quill is something we will measure and print, not copy across.
Honest limits
- We have not fitted one. Not the micrometer, not the pulley. Everything on this page is read off the supplier's own photographs.
- We cannot promise it fits your machine. Nobody publishes the bolt pattern on these heads, ours included, and we are not going to guess. If you buy it and it does not fit, send it back and we pay the postage.
- A depth stop repeats a depth. It does not make the spindle stiffer or the hole rounder. If your holes wander, the problem is somewhere else.
Shipping and returns
Shipping is free on every order, to the United States and to Australia, tracked, with no minimum. Orders are processed within 2 business days.
After that the number depends on what you bought, and the line under the price gives it. The drill press takes about 2 weeks because we do not hold stock of it, and bits, punches and small consumables take about 6 to 10 business days.
Australia is not slower. An earlier version of this page said three to four weeks, on the assumption that further away means longer. It is the opposite: the parcels leave China, and China is closer to Sydney than to Philadelphia. Our carrier quotes 6 to 10 days to Australia against 4 to 7 to the United States, and it costs us less to send. So the Australian figures here are the same as the American ones. What we cannot claim is that we have watched it happen - we have not shipped an Australian order yet, and the day we have real tracking from there these become our numbers instead of the carrier's.
On the plug, we have to correct ourselves. This page used to say our supplier sells an Australian-plug version of the adapter at the same price. That was wrong, and we are leaving the correction here rather than deleting the sentence. It came from a different machine in a different supplier's catalogue. The listing this machine actually comes from has no plug option at all. We asked the supplier straight out and they answered that they fit a compatible plug for the destination country - which is an answer, but it is theirs, not something we have checked. The plug block further up this page says what we will do if what arrives does not fit your wall.
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.
Before you order
Will it plug into my outlet? Voltage, yes: the supply is rated 100 to 240 V, which covers both 120 V American mains and 230 V Australian mains, so no converter and no transformer. The plug is the part we cannot promise yet. The machine has no plug option we can select when we order it. We asked our supplier and they answered in writing that they fit a compatible plug for the destination country - we are quoting them, not claiming it, because we have not yet had one in our hands. Our sample is on order. If what arrives will not go into your wall, tell us: we post you the right adapter free, or refund you in full with the postage on us. An earlier version of this answer said the supplier sells a separate US-plug and Australian-plug version at the same price. That was wrong and came from a different machine; we are leaving the correction here instead of quietly deleting it.
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 and the toolmaker's vise are bench tools too. Every page says which it is.
Do I pay tax or duty? In the United States, sales tax is added at checkout where your state charges it, and the total you see is the total. In Australia, consignments under AUD 1,000 normally carry 10% GST collected by sellers whose Australian turnover passes AUD 75,000 a year; we are well below that, so nothing is added at checkout and nothing should be asked of you on delivery. 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. We are not going to claim we cover all duties everywhere. We cover what we control and we tell you about the rest.
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. That applies in Australia too.
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 for your country, that we say which figures we measured and which we were told, and that when we get something wrong - the plug, which spindle fits, how long Australia takes - we say what the page used to say.

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30 days to change your mind
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