Drill press table not flat

[Greatred]

If I missed a previous thread in my search, apologies. I have a Skill bench drill press and have followed how to square the table to the drill and check the run out on the drill. However, when using the Silver Bullet, I noticed that one of the four corners was not touching the drill press table. With little pressure, the silver bullet would rock a small amount, even with the pin in place for drilling the rears.

Using a straight edge, it appears the outer diameter of the square table is a little higher than the middle of the table. While I know the SB jig forgives a lot of challenges through symmetry, if I were to rock forward on one side and rock back on another, it leads to one side of the rear wheels not migrating out to heads going forward fairly consistently.

I have tried to brace the jig or shim a side but that is a little clumsy. Do I need to sand down the table? Anyone else run into this? Is there a better fix? Purchase a overlay table?

As an aside, thank you to all who have shared so much knowledge. My son won his pack last night and the two tigers I helped with the info learned here placed 2nd and 4th. This year my son was able to do a lot more of the build thanks to techniques shared here. The dremmel press allowed him to do his own pockets. He still prefers to hand sand however since he finds the belt sander too scary.

 

[BulldogRacing]

you could build a table over the drill press and square the press to the new table. If you make it out of wood make cure it's flat. Then you can screw a stop block to the new table.

 

[GravityX]

you could build a table over the drill press and square the press to the new table. If you make it out of wood make sure it's flat. Then you can screw a stop block to the new table.

For clarification, I think what you meant here was that you can build a new table over the existing drill press table and then square the table to the drill press quill. It would be easier to square the new table to the drill press head rather than try to square the drill press head to the table. Hope that makes sense.

 

[Vitamin K]

Clamp a piece of laminated shelving over the drill press platform and then square that to the drill.

 

[Quicktimederby]

Pull off the table and take it to a machine shop. They should be able to deck it for you no problem. Shouldn't cost that much either.

 

[Greatred]

I had trouble locating a machine shop so I took the route of building a laminated table on top of the metal table. Everything level and square to drill now. Thank you for the suggestions. I will be drilling some new cars this weekend to see if all better.

 

[rpenning1970]

Do you have a picture of the new. Table on your drill press.