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I use my lathe whenever I can.
Is there anyway you can clamp the leg to a table? Then you can put a drill on a shopmate and get it level with the center of the hole and drill the hole.
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Drill a hole into the end of a square piece of stock ( say 2x2 ) as deep as you can the same diameter as the leg ,(slightly smaller if the leg is tapered) lower the DP table insert the leg in the hole align it with cross lines clamp it to the table and drill the hole(s)
KIS , IMO everything else would take way more time than it is worth for 4 ( or however many you need ) holes
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This made a little taller should work for 7" pieces.
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I have a drill chuck on my RAS. Comes in handy for horizontal boring.
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Have long-10" to 12" bits? If not, some drill rod? Welding rods? Any nice straight piece of rod will do really, and a 1/4"dowel center is handy here also, but a finish nail works too...
lower your DP table and put the bit, rod, whatever into the drill press. Fasten a piece of 3/4" ply to the table and raise it up to where the rod can be brought down to it and lock it in place. Turning the chuck by hand, mark where the rod hits or in other words
where the center of the chuck is Put the dowel center or nail in at the mark Cut the nail off 3/8" or so above the ply if that's what you used.
Take the rod out of the chuck and put in the drill bit that you're using. Center mark both ends your legs as you would for a lathe, put the bottom center on the nail and drill the top.
I often will use a plumb bob to do this for 16-30+"
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