drill and tap

Background: Construct a gear drive for a telescope. As accurate as it can be made with the tools at hand. The next step is to make and tap a 1 inch deep hole in the center of a 1 inch aluminum rod. The rod is about three inches long. The hole will be just over an inch deep and tapped to 1/4 by...

Hello, Most of the pictures I have seen, as well as my own BP have the way oiler mounted below the table on the knee. Has anyone mounted an oiler in a different location i.e... a higher location? I have a really bad back after three surgeries and anything I can do to reduce the number of...