This comes up quite often. As some of hte above are saying, Its not that the drill is particulary underpowered, or the quill isnt designed for it (although normally the both are true), its that with very few exceptions theres no facility to put a drawbar in the quill to stop either the jacobs chuck to fall off its arbor, or the morse taper in the quill.
Without that prevention, sooner or later your chuck will fall off the drill while its being used for this task because of the side forces.
If you just have one job, and are willing to accept the risk then so be it and I hope your underwear survives unscathed. But by the time you have shelled out on a good xy table instead of the crap palmed off on ebay as cross vices, your part the way to buying a small mill anyway, which will be light years ahead of a adapted pillar drill.
Of course this is a rocky road, and if suffering a severe infection of toolaholism, suddenly you turn round one day and you have more tools than the local light engineering company, but there's worse things happen at sea
I have a sensitive drill here that does have provision, (cincinatti) but it has a rise and fall head and was clearly intended for light milling too. Its a heavy old things for its size though, a lot of iron in a small space.
Without that prevention, sooner or later your chuck will fall off the drill while its being used for this task because of the side forces.
If you just have one job, and are willing to accept the risk then so be it and I hope your underwear survives unscathed. But by the time you have shelled out on a good xy table instead of the crap palmed off on ebay as cross vices, your part the way to buying a small mill anyway, which will be light years ahead of a adapted pillar drill.
Of course this is a rocky road, and if suffering a severe infection of toolaholism, suddenly you turn round one day and you have more tools than the local light engineering company, but there's worse things happen at sea
I have a sensitive drill here that does have provision, (cincinatti) but it has a rise and fall head and was clearly intended for light milling too. Its a heavy old things for its size though, a lot of iron in a small space.
