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I'm hoping that all I will have to drill for a demo is soft wood, because I can't afford the gears to gear it down successfully. I may increase it's functionality later, but for right now the output shaft will pretty much have to output shaft of the CIM.

As for the base plate, it's not a drill press in that sense. What I'm trying to do is simply get a flat plate with a hole in it for the bit to pass through, and simply press the plate flush against the surface I'm drilling into. That way, if you keep the surfaces flush, you can lower the spinning bit into the material and always drill a straight hole.

Attempt at drawing:

|| OOO
|| OOO
|| OOO
|| |
|| d
||
||
---- ----
MMMMMM

That would be a cut-away side view. The Os represent the CIM, || represents the guide rail, and the d is the drill bit. The M is the surface to drill into.
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