BUILDING TURRET AND EYELET BOARDS
A do-it-yourselfers guide to building circuit boards.

Attaching turrets and eyelets to circuit board material.
This method involves using a drill press but you can also use a table vise and hammer.

WARNING: KEEP YOUR DRILL PRESS TURNED OFF AND UNPLUGGED!! 

STEP 1: Templates and drilling.
Drill your board. You can draw out a template out on graph paper or make one on a computer program. This is much cheaper than expensive metal drill templates. Align your template to your board and tape it down securely with masking tape.

STEP 2: Sanding the board edges.
After you have drilled your holes you may want to use some very fine sand paper and sand the edges of your board. I use 300 or 400 wet sandpaper. Wet sanding tends to give a smoother finish than dry sanding.

STEP 3: Attach and align your staking tool. 
The series of photos below show the tool attached to a drill press. Make sure that both parts of the tool are fastened well. Alignment is very important.

POINTED END OF TOOL IN DRILL PRESS CHUCK.

Bottom half of tool in press table.

Bottom half of tool attached underneath drill press table.

Align tool and tighten. Alignment is very important.

STEP 4: Insert turret or eyelets into holes
If your turrets fit loosely you should only insert a few at a time because you will need to turn your board over for staking. 
Note: Your drill bit will thin out over time and cause your drill holes to become smaller. This, in turn, will cause the turrets to fit tighter. Eventually, the bit will need to be replaced as it will become very difficult to push your turrets into your board.

STEP 5: Staking turrets.

You will need to turn your board over for this part. Insert the top half of your turret into the hole in the bottom part of the tool. The point of the staking tool should align as close to the center of the turret hole as possible.
 

Pull the handle of the drill press until the pointed part of the tool sits into the hole in the turret and flares out the edges. This does not take much pressure. You may have a tendency to pull down very hard on the handle of your press but this is not necessary and can wear out your drill press table.
Below is a photo of a well flared turret lug.

Well flared lug.

TUTORIAL FOR USING TOOL #2
This is a series of illustrations taken from the actual manual of these tools.

This shows the base tool and swagger set mounted on a drill press.

This illustration shows how to use the tools in a table vise.