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Shop Tip #298
© Frank Ford 2006; Photo by FF

Don't leave a cutter in your drill press chuck, or you'll risk this kind of nasty little accident. Even though I know better, I still occasionally forget to take the drill bit out, and I bump a sharp cutting lip just reaching across under the thing when the machine is turned off.