Vertiacc Drill Press Accessory: Discontinued — What to Buy Instead

The Vertiacc drill press accessory is discontinued and no longer available through retail.

The problem it was solving

Every drill press ships with a cast iron table that is too small, has a hole in the middle you cannot cover, and offers nowhere to clamp. Those three things cause the same three problems, every time:

Blowout. The bit exits into the hole in the middle of the table and tears the back face of the workpiece. A sacrificial wooden surface under the work is the entire fix.

Spinning. A small part not clamped will catch and spin on the bit. On a drill press this happens faster than you can react and is the main injury mechanism on these machines.

No repeatability. Without a fence and a stop, drilling a row of identical holes means marking each one.

What to look for in a replacement

A replaceable insert directly under the chuck, so you can cut a fresh zero-clearance hole when the old one is chewed out.

A fence with T-track, so you can bolt on a stop block. This is what turns a drill press into a machine that repeats.

Flat, and staying flat. MDF-cored tables sag over years, especially if the shop is damp. Check it against a straightedge occasionally.

Squaring matters too, and it is not the table’s job: check the chuck is perpendicular to the table by chucking a length of straight rod, swinging the table under it and measuring at both ends of the swing.

What to buy

The WEN DPA2412, linked below, is a drill press table with a fence and a stop block, sized to fit the common benchtop presses and drilled for the usual mounting patterns. It has the replaceable insert, which is the feature that will still matter in five years.

A shop-made table from ply with a T-track routed in does exactly the same job for less, if you have an afternoon. There is no magic in the commercial version beyond it being ready to bolt on.