Drill Press

A spinning bit over a workpiece. The shaft keeps the bit turning, but nothing gets drilled until you push it. It's hand-fed, one push per click.

Crafting

  S
  B
I I I

S is a Shaft, B is a Bearing and I is an Iron Ingot.

Using it

Put it on a shaft line (any side) and get it turning. It's a 35 Su load.
Right-click with a workpiece to put it under the bit.
Right-click with an empty hand to push the bit down once. Each push cuts a little.
Right-click with an item on an occupied press to take the workpiece back.

Sneak-right-click with an empty hand switches between slow feed and fast feed.

The bit has to be spinning. Pushing a stopped bit does nothing.

What it makes

Plate → Drilled Plate → Swarf

Keep pushing after the holes are done and you drill the plate away into swarf. Bits of swarf also fly off the top of the press now and then while you cut (15% of cuts).

It also drills most gun parts: a turned rod into a Gun Barrel (and wider), an ingot into a Receiver, a ground ingot into a Cylinder, a rod into a Magazine Tube, a magazine tube into a Muzzle Brake, a nugget into a Relief Vent.

Two Iron Drilled Plates make a Bullet Mold (see Ammunition).

Cutting is different from hammering

Hammering is about force. Cutting is about the tool being harder than the metal. The drill bit is 18: hard enough for copper, iron, cast iron and steel (15), but not hardened steel (25) or netherite (40). Those need a Grinding Wheel. JEI shows each metal's hardness under "Tool must beat".

Slow vs. fast feed

Slow (10 St) cuts less per push and never jams.
Fast (22 St) cuts more than twice as much per push, but one push in twenty the bit binds: you hear a clank and that push is wasted. Nothing is damaged.

Each push removes strength ÷ hardness in work. A drilled steel plate (20 Fu) is about 14 fast pushes or 30 slow ones.

Wear

Pushing when the bit can't cut (metal too hard, or nothing left) wears the press.