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I've seen small mount-drill-or-dremel-here drill presses before, and they haven't worked very well in my experience. What I'm after is a tool that has the drill-straight functionality of a drill press while maintaining the hand-operated cordless drill functionality. This would mean being able to use the "cordless drill press" on an oddly-shaped robot, for instance.

My idea was to provide a reasonably flat surface that is perpendicular to the feed axis at the base of the "press". I'd then have a track welded to this, parallel to the feed axis. Then, have the drill press assembly slide along the track, maybe spring loaded. Nothing too fancy. The reason I wanted just the CIM as a demo is because I wanted the whole press to be in-line to simplify construction (the project prototype is due next week). I also like the CIM because it's easy to mount, unlike the really oddly shaped drills and transmissions.

Thanks for the input, all, but I'm not quite building a drill press as is conventionally known. There is no table, just a flat surface that you push flush against the surface your drilling into.
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