Dremel Drill Stand
When you have a Dremel and want to drill some PCBs, what do you do? Buy a drill stand for the Dremel, readily available and not terribly expensive?
No: Make a DIY drill stand from a macro slide you bought on AliExpress and waited for it 3 weeks.
![](https://ondrovo.com/a/20221018-dremel-drill-stand/2022-09-14_20-49-07_8533_huddda319a9501bd4f2d4084045503ccec_1231137_800x0_resize_q75_box.jpg)
Bad macro slide from Aliexpress
That sounds logical, right? Indeed, so, here’s how that went:
![](https://ondrovo.com/a/20221018-dremel-drill-stand/2022-09-14_22-33-14_2783_hu29cb5d9814d1192b7768109548db50fe_3297422_380x0_resize_q75_box.jpg)
Fitting a Dremel to the slide
![](https://ondrovo.com/a/20221018-dremel-drill-stand/2022-09-15_18-48-26_7910_hu68b1225b776741ca2f1fb26428cd20f9_14006_380x0_resize_box_3.png)
Handle modelled in OpenSCAD
![](https://ondrovo.com/a/20221018-dremel-drill-stand/2022-09-15_21-53-56_6537_hub8c491b3937ba64f8c988f179a5c3503_1636764_380x0_resize_q75_box.jpg)
Testing if it could work
![](https://ondrovo.com/a/20221018-dremel-drill-stand/2022-10-18_18-00-46_3952_hua6b91499ae7155e4827e85abcf0a6a9d_1885999_380x0_resize_q75_box.jpg)
Final build using a particle board
It works pretty well, actually. It just takes a bit too much space.