Rick Potter
01-26-2010, 2:47 AM
I have been thinking for a couple weeks about getting a cheap drill press for the garage so I can do drilling in metal without messing up my nice woodworking table on my clean drill press.
I have been looking for a week or so on Craigs List for an old Craftsman, for about $50 but no luck so far. Lots of HF type models for that price, but I figure at least the Craftsman will be U.S. made, so I will keep looking.
That is...until tonight. Out of the blue my brother calls me and asks if I want his old Craftsman drill press, since he is cleaning out the garage. How much? I ask him.
Free, sez he. Sold, sez I.
Now, let me qualify that 'old drill press'; he bought it about 15 years ago, and has probably used it a dozen times. It was Sears second best, floor model, and has been in his SoCal garage all this time covered up with garage junk. In other words, it is sorta......drum roll.....like new!!!!
Oh yeah, did I mention he is throwing in a Heavy Duty Milwaukee drill, like plumbers use...the monster one for drilling three inch holes in floors?
He's my favorite brother.
Rick Potter
I have been looking for a week or so on Craigs List for an old Craftsman, for about $50 but no luck so far. Lots of HF type models for that price, but I figure at least the Craftsman will be U.S. made, so I will keep looking.
That is...until tonight. Out of the blue my brother calls me and asks if I want his old Craftsman drill press, since he is cleaning out the garage. How much? I ask him.
Free, sez he. Sold, sez I.
Now, let me qualify that 'old drill press'; he bought it about 15 years ago, and has probably used it a dozen times. It was Sears second best, floor model, and has been in his SoCal garage all this time covered up with garage junk. In other words, it is sorta......drum roll.....like new!!!!
Oh yeah, did I mention he is throwing in a Heavy Duty Milwaukee drill, like plumbers use...the monster one for drilling three inch holes in floors?
He's my favorite brother.
Rick Potter