If there is no drilling machine in the garage or home workshop (and you really need it), you can make it yourself from an old tile cutter and an electric drill. Of course, this option is quite primitive, but for want of a better one it may well do. Moreover, you don’t have to spend much on materials.
From the old tile cutter, only guide tubes with fasteners will be required. They will need to be fixed on a massive base - from a steel plate 10-12 mm thick. We cut off a piece of plate that is suitable in length, after which we mark out, punch and drill the mounting holes.
After that, we weld the plate to the base of a home-made drilling machine (from a rectangular piece of a plate of the same thickness) at a right angle. We clean the place of the weld seam with a grinder with a petal disk, and fasten the guide tubes to the vertical stand with fastenings from the tile cutter.
Drilling Machine Assembly Process
From a piece of metal strip you need to make a home-made clamp for fixing an electric drill - for this we bend the strip in a vice. In the "ears" of the clamp we drill through holes. Then you need to weld on one side the usual hex nut into which the fixing bolt will be screwed.
We fix the metal clamp on a vertical stand of the machine. At the next stage of work, we proceed to the final assembly of the drilling machine, and we also manufacture a handle so that it is possible to lower and raise the electric drill in the process of drilling the workpiece.
You can watch the detailed process of manufacturing and assembling a home-made drilling machine (for a workshop or garage) from the guides of an old tile cutter and a conventional power drill in a video on the website.
