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Drill Press Laser Centering Device
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This is a device that helps you center objects, and find the drill center point, on your drill press. Using lasers!
I got the idea from watching R+D bazillionaire genius Dan Gelbart's [amazing videos posted to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos), just like [this guy](http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/deckel-maho-aciera-abene-mills/laser-centering-jig-deckel-using-dan-gelbart-s-concept-292450/) also seems to have done. Also note that in that second link Dan Gelbart himself chimes in with some tips for how you can adjust your laser to get very fine accuracy. Focusing lasers! Mirrors! Things I basically didn't do here, but which it would be possible to add to this design. Please let me know if you remix this design with improvements!
The general idea is that the laser, by being angled and spinning along with the drill chuck, creates a _circle_ in addition to a point (when the chuck is at the proper height). The point is handy obviously to find out where the
I got the idea from watching R+D bazillionaire genius Dan Gelbart's [amazing videos posted to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/dgelbart/videos), just like [this guy](http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/deckel-maho-aciera-abene-mills/laser-centering-jig-deckel-using-dan-gelbart-s-concept-292450/) also seems to have done. Also note that in that second link Dan Gelbart himself chimes in with some tips for how you can adjust your laser to get very fine accuracy. Focusing lasers! Mirrors! Things I basically didn't do here, but which it would be possible to add to this design. Please let me know if you remix this design with improvements!
The general idea is that the laser, by being angled and spinning along with the drill chuck, creates a _circle_ in addition to a point (when the chuck is at the proper height). The point is handy obviously to find out where the
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