• 13 parts
  • Checked September 2026

Drill Press Diagram Quiz

Tap each part of a floor drill press as it is named, from the base to the depth stop.

Drill Press Diagram Quiz

Name Date

Tap the quill (sleeve)

1 of 7

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
More options

Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Base
  2. Column
  3. Worktable
  4. Head
  5. Motor
  6. Pulleys
  7. Belt
  8. Feed handles
  9. Quill (sleeve)
  10. Spindle
  11. Chuck
  12. Drill bit
  13. Depth stop

Drawn for this site by script, 2026-09-27. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

Next step Read every name on the labeled drill press

All 13 parts on the diagram

Show the list
  1. Base The heavy foot that supports the whole machine. Bolted down, it stops the press shaking.
  2. Column Holds up the head and carries the worktable. A tall, round post.
  3. Worktable The table the work rests on, on an arm round the column. It moves up and down, swings aside, and on many presses tilts.
  4. Head The top of the press, bolted to the column. It holds the spindle, the quill, the motor and the feed mechanism.
  5. Motor Turns the spindle through the belt. An electric motor at the back of the head.
  6. Pulleys Stepped pulleys on the motor and the spindle. Moving the belt to a different step changes the spindle's speed.
  7. Belt The drive belt from the motor pulley to the spindle pulley.
  8. Feed handles Three handles on a hub. Turning them lowers the quill and drill into the work, and raises them again.
  9. Quill (sleeve) The sleeve round the spindle. It does not turn, but slides down to feed the drill into the work.
  10. Spindle The shaft that turns inside the quill and holds the chuck.
  11. Chuck The jaws that grip the drill bit.
  12. Drill bit The cutting tool that bores the hole, gripped in the chuck.
  13. Depth stop An adjustable stop that sets how far the quill can go down. Every hole is then drilled to the same depth.

How this list was compiled: Read 2026-09-27. (1) US Army, TC 9-524, Fundamentals of Machine Tools (1996), chapter 4 (Drilling machines) and figures 4-1 to 4-5, https://archive.org/details/tc-9-524-fundamentals-of-machine-tools-1996 : a spindle holding the drill and revolving in a sleeve or quill that slides to feed the tool; the column supporting the head; the head of sleeve, spindle, electric motor and feed mechanism, bolted to the column; the worktable on an arm, adjustable up and down, swinging aside and tilting; the base, bolted to the floor for vibration-free work; the drill held by a chuck; the feed handle; the motor's drive belt from the motor pulley to the spindle pulley; the depth stop. (2) Wikipedia, Drill, Drill press, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill : a base, column (pillar), adjustable table, spindle, chuck and drill head, driven by an electric motor; three handles on a hub that move the spindle and chuck; speed changed by moving a belt across stepped pulleys. Drill press, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_press : an adjustable depth stop. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site by script, 2026-09-27. Own work, nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

This drill press diagram quiz is on a belt-driven floor model seen from the side, with the belt guard open. The frame and the drive are asked first, then the parts that carry the drill bit down.

Read the full guide

Names that get swapped

Three parts hang in a line at the front. The quill is the sleeve coming out of the head, the spindle the thinner shaft below it, and the chuck the wider body under that, gripping the drill bit. The depth stop is the thin rod with two nuts beside the quill; the feed handles are the three spokes on the side of the head.

Head, motor and base

The head is the whole housing on top of the column, and the motor the separate body behind it. The base is the slab on the floor. Its top is similar to a worktable and may be slotted for work too large for the table.

  • Pulleys is one answer for the two stepped wheels, on the motor and on the spindle. A tap on either counts.
  • Some shop manuals call the drill bit simply a drill.

Questions and answers

What is another name for a drill press?

Pillar drill, pedestal drill or bench drill. Machine shop manuals say drilling machine. The pillar is the column.

What is the difference between a bench and a floor drill press?

Where it stands: a bench model is mounted on a workbench and a floor model on the floor. Both are built of the same six things: spindle, quill, column, head, worktable and base.

What is a geared head drill press?

One with no belt. Gears inside the head carry the motor's power to the spindle. The quiz is drawn on the belt-driven kind, which is why it asks for the belt and the pulleys.

What holds the bit in a drill press?

The chuck. Its three jaws close on a straight-shank bit when the chuck key is turned, and the chuck's own shank sits in a taper inside the spindle. Larger bits have a tapered shank and are held by a taper socket, not by jaws.

More quizzes

Show 7 more

Browse Science Quizzes