Just Purchased a Vintage Duro W3080..Need Help

[Matthew Dellinger]

I have been searching for a vintage floor drill press (NOTE: according to http://vintagemachinery.org/, the 3080 was a benchtop model but you could purchase a cast iron floor plate to convert to a floor model) for months and today I found one...What I know so far, it was geared for metal working and it has a Westinghouse 1/2hp motor that has seen better days and has a cracked housing. It is also missing the gear pulley cover. After cleaning out a lot of the grease, oil and wasps nest, off the frame the rest of it seems pretty solid. So, I'm getting online to see if I can find a manual and other information but this is where I need some help. It seems that all the manuals out there are from a single PDF that people are just printing out and selling...And from some of the reviews I'm seeing the reprints aren't all that clear especially the illustrations. I'm going to buy one anyway to have something. Also, I can't seem to find a pulley cover anywhere.

So I'm reaching out to see if anyone out there can point me in another direction to find some details around this drill press...this is my first vintage power tool restoration and I'm hoping it goes well...

Thanks.
-Matt

[Rick Whitehead]

Have you tried the Old Woodworking Machines Forum- http://owwm.org and the Vintage Machinery website-http://www.vintagemachinery.org (http://www.vintagemachinery.org/)? Both are excellent sources of information for old machinery.
Rick

[Bill Dufour]

I grew up with that drillpress. My father bought it new around 1947 or so. He cut the left side of the pulley housing and added a jack shaft to get lower speeds. I added a light socket inside the casting between the quill and the column. My brother just moved it to his shop last week.
Bill D

[Matthew Dellinger]

Have you tried the Old Woodworking Machines Forum- http://owwm.org and the Vintage Machinery website-http://www.vintagemachinery.org (http://www.vintagemachinery.org/)? Both are excellent sources of information for old machinery.
Rick

Thanks Rick...I didn't know about the Old Woodworking Machines Forum..

[Matthew Dellinger]

I grew up with that drillpress. My father bought it new around 1947 or so. He cut the left side of the pulley housing and added a jack shaft to get lower speeds. I added a light socket inside the casting between the quill and the column. My brother just moved it to his shop last week.
Bill D


That's cool....Has it been restored?

[Bill Dufour]

That's cool....Has it been restored?


No need for any restoration yet. And no arc of shame on the table either. My father explained that after the war motors were hard to come by and many manufacturers used whatever make they could find that month. He also said makers would give buyers a choice of motor makes. I think he bought it without a motor and found one to fit. Also he picked up a hunk of redwood by the side of the road and used that underneath to raise it up to a more comfortable height. It is like 8 inches thick and cut down to about 18" square.
Bil lD

[Bill Dufour]

My fathers has no pulley cover but he may have removed it to add the jackshaft. The switch is just a toggle switch on the motor with forward and reverse. I saw a bench model at Habitat about one year ago.
Bill D