Patrick Walsh
12-07-2016, 11:51 PM
And this is what I did.
I purchased this drill press about a year ago. I also purchased another of the same model but a bench top version for spare parts in the event i needed them.
The two presses have been in my shop "majorly in the way" collecting dust all torn down. Between a house full of replacement windows that arrived two weeks ago and about 600 BF of BEM i stumbled into and just had to have cluttering up my shop i desperately needed to make some room and get these two torn down drill presses and their various parts out of my way and back together.
Originaly i was going to go nuts and completely restore the machine. I planned to have it sandblasted, polish up all the metal nuts bolts, levers so forth and so on. Well that never happened. I did give all the working parts a major cleaning along with re grease.
Glad i didn't go the full resto route as after about 10-12 hours of work the machine is back together bearings all replaced, new wires run so forth and so on. After all that the runout is kinda miserable. With a bare eye you can see the spindle wobble. Non the less i am able to drill and bung holes with only minor if any reveal around the perimeter.
Right about now i am kinda wishing i had just purched a new press regardless of if they are giant pieces of crap.
Anyway im tired but glad the parts that had been spread all over one corner of my shop are now neatly spandling in one small space.
I purchased this drill press about a year ago. I also purchased another of the same model but a bench top version for spare parts in the event i needed them.
The two presses have been in my shop "majorly in the way" collecting dust all torn down. Between a house full of replacement windows that arrived two weeks ago and about 600 BF of BEM i stumbled into and just had to have cluttering up my shop i desperately needed to make some room and get these two torn down drill presses and their various parts out of my way and back together.
Originaly i was going to go nuts and completely restore the machine. I planned to have it sandblasted, polish up all the metal nuts bolts, levers so forth and so on. Well that never happened. I did give all the working parts a major cleaning along with re grease.
Glad i didn't go the full resto route as after about 10-12 hours of work the machine is back together bearings all replaced, new wires run so forth and so on. After all that the runout is kinda miserable. With a bare eye you can see the spindle wobble. Non the less i am able to drill and bung holes with only minor if any reveal around the perimeter.
Right about now i am kinda wishing i had just purched a new press regardless of if they are giant pieces of crap.
Anyway im tired but glad the parts that had been spread all over one corner of my shop are now neatly spandling in one small space.