Interesting antique variable speed drillpress on C-list.

Looks like it has two cone drive setups to vary speed. I am surprised to see an electric! motor.
No relation to seller etc.

"https://goldcountry.craigslist.org/tls/d/drill-press-antique/6740098983.html

Very clever. Inverted cones with an inter-drive. Thanks for sharing. OWWM has a listing for the same machine type under Knecht Brothers and they call it a "sensitive drill."

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Wonder what it sound like running. I imagine a toy train track that would be very pleasant.

The motor mount looks homemade to me. I bet it was line shaft drive from the factory.
Bill D

It's an interesting design. I can't imagine it having very much torque.

Cool, yet terrifying at the same time. The electric motor is a later add on. The wide pulley on top is for a leather belt. The cast part of the yoke that the motor is mounted on probably had some kind of idler/drive pulley set up to turn the drill on and off, and change to a vertical wheel to take a belt from the line shaft on the ceiling.

There's also this one available on CL: https://images.craigslist.org/00808_...Tr_600x450.jpg