Outlawmws
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OK, it’s been a month and I've barely had a chance to touch this puppy. (Life…)
I picked this guy up off Craig’s List for “scrap price” (the PO’s words when I picked it up.) He’d picked it up on a “You want a drill press? Come get this thing out of my rental property” deal, and as he already had a fairly new Summit Drill press near this size, he decided to just sell it fast to get the space in his shop back....
So it was priced at $125, and that’s what I gave the man. And happy to do so!
The bad: The motor is, for this DP; junk (1/3 hp….) and the 8 sheave pulley is missing. (I’m guessing the original motor was 3 phase, and the shaft was larger than the shaft on this motor so it got left off…). Other than that, it just needs a major cleanup/refurb! I have a couple other things I want to do on it. but more on that later:
The good? It’s a Canedy Otto (Pre 1949/Cincinnati era) Royal 18, VERY heavy (406 lbs w/Motor according to the Manual) 5-3/4”: stroke > 9” throat (18” dp…), it has a table crank, the head housing has crank capability, (which I want to make functional, I need a crank/Shaft, worm gear set, with a smaller drive gear for the rack gear also needed…)
Here is the Ad pics and language from CL:
And what I took when I got home:
For the history buffs, some Canedy-Otto History:
From http://vintagemachinery.org
The Table is also a plus! Not a hint of an arc of shame, as some bright boy made up a 1” plate, drilled and tapped it, and it was bolted on from the bottom and THAT has the only Arc of shame!. (When I got the DP, the plate had been flipped over and looked clean…)
The front name plate after the Orange paint was removed:
And a sample of a similar plate; you can just see the ghost of the art on my plate, and the color is a match (It looks different in the pics, as I had to lighten one for visibility...).
The start of the strip down.
I took the 1/3 HP motor off and the motor mounting plate. I also got the Chuck and Arbor off, as well. The chuck action was not happening but it actually freed right up with some lube. It still needs a complete disassembly and detailing however.
I guestimated the weight of the remaining head at about 100 Lbs, and I wasn’t far off. But the expectation that my son and I could get a hold of the head and lift it off wasn’t realistic at all! We got to here, working it slow. But 100 + lbs at head level was not my idea of fun, so we did some rigging and I broke out a small chain fall I have, and we finished the lift off with that.
This was how far we had gotten when I stopped us and did the rigging. After getting it on the ground, we kept moving the holding collar up as we went a fractio of an inch at a time... I was glad we had:
Here is the head on its way to the ground:
I weighed it after it was on the ground: a bit over 112 lbs…
That’s as far as I had time for today, but the table lift crank housing and the post should come off easily.
I want to see if I can find a 6’ post as I don’t like the working height with only the stock 5’ post. 3-1/2” OD is what I need; might not be easy to find around here, not that many steel supply houses around anymore these days…
I also need to do some digging for the gears and gear rack for the head. The Rack will probably be the easiest piece…
This will be a slow process; I don’t have a lot of time to spare for the project right now, and in two weeks I lose an entire weekend…
I picked this guy up off Craig’s List for “scrap price” (the PO’s words when I picked it up.) He’d picked it up on a “You want a drill press? Come get this thing out of my rental property” deal, and as he already had a fairly new Summit Drill press near this size, he decided to just sell it fast to get the space in his shop back....
So it was priced at $125, and that’s what I gave the man. And happy to do so!
The bad: The motor is, for this DP; junk (1/3 hp….) and the 8 sheave pulley is missing. (I’m guessing the original motor was 3 phase, and the shaft was larger than the shaft on this motor so it got left off…). Other than that, it just needs a major cleanup/refurb! I have a couple other things I want to do on it. but more on that later:
The good? It’s a Canedy Otto (Pre 1949/Cincinnati era) Royal 18, VERY heavy (406 lbs w/Motor according to the Manual) 5-3/4”: stroke > 9” throat (18” dp…), it has a table crank, the head housing has crank capability, (which I want to make functional, I need a crank/Shaft, worm gear set, with a smaller drive gear for the rack gear also needed…)
Here is the Ad pics and language from CL:
And what I took when I got home:
For the history buffs, some Canedy-Otto History:
From http://vintagemachinery.org
The remnants of my Name plate map to the Pre-Cincinattii era, and so does the S/N as it is low and close to another known example of an earlier Candy Auto DP.
The Table is also a plus! Not a hint of an arc of shame, as some bright boy made up a 1” plate, drilled and tapped it, and it was bolted on from the bottom and THAT has the only Arc of shame!. (When I got the DP, the plate had been flipped over and looked clean…)
The front name plate after the Orange paint was removed:
And a sample of a similar plate; you can just see the ghost of the art on my plate, and the color is a match (It looks different in the pics, as I had to lighten one for visibility...).
The start of the strip down.
I took the 1/3 HP motor off and the motor mounting plate. I also got the Chuck and Arbor off, as well. The chuck action was not happening but it actually freed right up with some lube. It still needs a complete disassembly and detailing however.
I guestimated the weight of the remaining head at about 100 Lbs, and I wasn’t far off. But the expectation that my son and I could get a hold of the head and lift it off wasn’t realistic at all! We got to here, working it slow. But 100 + lbs at head level was not my idea of fun, so we did some rigging and I broke out a small chain fall I have, and we finished the lift off with that.
This was how far we had gotten when I stopped us and did the rigging. After getting it on the ground, we kept moving the holding collar up as we went a fractio of an inch at a time... I was glad we had:
Here is the head on its way to the ground:
I weighed it after it was on the ground: a bit over 112 lbs…
That’s as far as I had time for today, but the table lift crank housing and the post should come off easily.
I want to see if I can find a 6’ post as I don’t like the working height with only the stock 5’ post. 3-1/2” OD is what I need; might not be easy to find around here, not that many steel supply houses around anymore these days…
I also need to do some digging for the gears and gear rack for the head. The Rack will probably be the easiest piece…
This will be a slow process; I don’t have a lot of time to spare for the project right now, and in two weeks I lose an entire weekend…
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