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How good is a normal drill press at actually milling stuff? What does it not do that a real mill does?
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Incoherent's answer to this actually made a great deal of sense  I would add that in many (most?) drill presses, the chuck is press fit onto the spindle, typically with a JT33 taper, and no retaining hardware. This works fine when it's used as a drill, but side loading will often cause the chuck to fall off. At best this damages the workpeice, and / or the tooling, at worst it can cause user injury... :oops: 
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Designing system, will have Tyan S2468UGN Dual Athlon MOBO, SCSI HDDS, other goodies. Will run LINUX only. Want to have silent running, minimal fans, and water cooled. Probably not OC'c
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