Not much to it just a couple boards and a few parts from the hobby shop and Ace Hardware.
The guides are
brass tubes and stainless steel rods available at any hobby
shop. The stops
are the collars that hold wheels on model airplanes,
also available at
the hobby shops.
The drill is simply clamped in place between the two small boards with stove bolts.
The stand is just a scrap piece of wood I had with the rods glued into it.
Simply a Dremel Tool in
a precision guide, here it is completed. The dremel
is
mounted between two small boards to clamp it into a
guide arrangement.
The
springs help shove down during drilling but allow it to
be raised for water
input.
Here are a few
rocks we drilled to try it out. On the left is rose
quartz it was very
hard drilling but it went through with persistence. In
the middle is some
obsidian I
found near Topaz Mt. Ut. it was difficult too. On the
right is some yellow
calcite
it was easy to drill not being as hard. I am in no way
an expert at this,
so if anyone
has suggestions on this process/project please let me
know. The gold gal
and I will
greatly appreciate it.. Thanks..