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This is an old-school drill press which has been modified to hold an older soldering iron. Instead of a soldering tip, there's a piece of copper or aluminium that has a stub, to line up with the center of a heat-set thread insert. Its definitely a 2-hand job - should be able to put in inserts straight every time. The M3-sized bit was hard to make. Copper will not turn on the lathe very well at thin diameters, which is why I gave up and used aluminium for this one. The aluminium came from an old bicycle bottle cage hence the red anodising. 2024-03-03 Criggie     5-up.jpg 1500 x 1280 559.18 KB     6-up.jpg 1451 x 1200 591.72 KB     bits-m3_and_m6.jpg 972 x 800 464.72 KB     down.jpg 1024 x 921 223.52 KB     failures-m3-bit.jpg 927 x 1024 288.65 KB     finished-perfect.jpg 822 x 1024 236.01 KB     finished-wonk.jpg 804 x 1024 240.89 KB     finished.jpg 1024 x 651 195.02 KB     flir.png 1087 x 720 566.71 KB flir_20240302T135649.mp4        logo-wolf.jpg 2056 x 3678 566.71 KB     parts.jpg 719 x 1024 164.28 KB     storage.jpg 1282 x 1024 326.59 KB

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