Hand Drill Depth Stop

[Cliff]

 I've used tape like so many do.  Mostly I'll do this for those holes that are not terribly sensitive to a little over shooting of the depth - coz the bloody  tape moves after several holes.  I've also drilled out little round aluminum  slugs and tapped 'em for  grub screws which is a pretty good  way to make a depth stop, but  labor intense way to go.

But most often when I have a real hard limit to the depth of the hole or I'm drilling a slew of  holes and want something rigid I do this:

[lew]

Neat idea, Thanks!!

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[Ron Dudelston]

Great tip Cliff!

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[Scott Fleming]

Thats really cool! I would have never thought of something like that. Guaranteed depth everytime. So did you use the drill press to make the hole and then bandsaw it to size?

[Cliff]

Yah  the DP and my square  angle block then I cut it on the TS to an approximation of the right length and the final tweaking is done by inserting more or less of the  drill shank into the chuck.