Neil, With a through hole in a tailstock and changing the morse taper stem with a threaded end easy to do imho also needed in a drill press. Of course impossibles will always prohibit why I use the drill press, I stress this may only be for me but as I have said even losing the chuck from the drill press without a draw bar can be drastic. So horses for courses forearmed and forewarned. In our Wood group every item in our shed ten lathes, saw stop bench saw large bandsaw, 12 inch latest style surface planer and so on including the drill press to operate you need certification orally and written where these things are covered. What people do in their own workshop can never be governed only helped by forums and clubs all with the interests of users at heart. By the way the Saw Stop top of the line safeish wise belonging to our woodclub member went into safe mode recently costing hundreds of dollars as each safety stop does with them simply because the guy was cutting picture frame material that had metallic paint on it, very expensive sudden stop, you have to replace the blade always and the safe stop mechanism. The bottom line is cheaping purchases can be negative and expensive items concentrating on safety you have to pay the piper.
What suggestions can be made from all the discussions that may help us can perhaps prevent an accident. Thank you for pointing out many situations prohibit safe drilling of blanks I for one will avoid them totally.
Kind regards Peter.
