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[bmw57isetta]

Tonellin:

That DP was built, I think, during 1941 and part of 1942, ending because of WWII. "Mohawk" models are relatively rare as Craftsman drill presses go.

Here's a link to the owner's manual from vintagemachinery.org:

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/222/2097.pdf

 

[BradnCali]

I found this Model 15-207 Delta Rockwell drill press this morning on the local Craigslist today for $60 and I sent an email about 13 hours after the add appeared. As might be expected, the seller received numerous emails including several received before I sent mine. However, the seller called me almost immediately after I sent my email and told me he liked my email out of all those he'd previously received. I simply stated that I was the guy he was looking for to own that drill press, that I had a collection of Delta machines that I restored and that I would love to add this one to my stable of machines. He had inherited this from a older neighbor that passed away a few years ago, didn't use/need it but wanted to make sure it went to a good home. This one dates from 1961, has a 1/2 hp original motor and the 8" slow speed pulley and the table has very few marks. Though a little dirty, this DP is in outstanding condition. This will nicely complement my 14" Delta.

Brad

 

[bubinga]

You're lucky, that's nice.
Good price too.

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[Alexbn921]

I found this Model 15-207 Delta Rockwell drill press this morning on the local Craigslist today for $60 and I sent an email about 13 hours after the add appeared. As might be expected, the seller received numerous emails including several received before I sent mine. However, the seller called me almost immediately after I sent my email and told me he liked my email out of all those he'd previously received. I simply stated that I was the guy he was looking for to own that drill press, that I had a collection of Delta machines that I restored and that I would love to add this one to my stable of machines. He had inherited this from a older neighbor that passed away a few years ago, didn't use/need it but wanted to make sure it went to a good home. This one dates from 1961, has a 1/2 hp original motor and the 8" slow speed pulley and the table has very few marks. Though a little dirty, this DP is in outstanding condition. This will nicely complement my 14" Delta.

Great find, especially at that price. You should be able to clean it up and use it as is. If a full restoration in order, good luck. I fixed up the same one and they are a great DP. I don't care for the linked belts and the cheap ones at napa are garbage. Get some good ones with the cut outs and it will run silent.

 

[vertguy]

Finally found the right deal for a CM 150 DP. Great story with this one as the seller's father bought this new in '49 and it has been sitting in their basement shop for the last 30 plus years. The kicker was getting an original owners manual. A little clean up and this one will get put back to use. It looks huge compared to the little Dunlap.

 

[schor]

Finally found the right deal for a CM 150 DP. Great story with this one as the seller's father bought this new in '49 and it has been sitting in their basement shop for the last 30 plus years. The kicker was getting an original owners manual. A little clean up and this one will get put back to use. It looks huge compared to the little Dunlap.

How much did you get it for before I give you a you ****. Nice score.

 

[vertguy]

Don't think it was a smoking deal... but based on what I have seen my area for the past 6 plus months, I was happy to get this for $120.


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[One800GPS]

Hello All,

Here is my dumpster diving treasure. A vintage Craftsman model 150 drill press. Works and runs great, just needs a bit of aesthetic touch-up. This is the before (current) pics.

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, it must have been another "Its' old, must be junk" person..

 

[bubinga]

Old friend of mine pretty much made his living you know garage saling and I flea market selling they always said it's amazing what people throw away me be the first to say you definitely ****.

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[bubinga]

Be sure to post after pics please will you be changing the bearings or anything you did say it runs nice and quiet you'll get lots of good advice on here if you need any help heck I can even help you but there's guys on here knows a little more than me. I have the bench top model in the same era good score.

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[PWRstroke_smoke]

Hello All,

Here is my dumpster diving treasure. A vintage Craftsman model 150 drill press. Works and runs great, just needs a bit of aesthetic touch-up. This is the before (current) pics.

gorgeous! What a great find sir!

 

[nine4gmc]

I think I would be living/waiting in that dumpster for more finds! Major score!

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[Watsondog]

Can you guys help me on the details of this drill press? The owner wants $30.00 for it no chucks though.

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[larry_g]

Searching says that is a valve seat machine, not a drill press. Used for reconditioning automotive type heads.

lg
no neat sigline

 

[Outlawmws]

Well for one, it doesn't appear to be a drill pres bot a machine for working on valve guides on heads?

Google "van norman model 650"

 

[ckadams00]

You could mount that box to the side of the motor mount plate. That way it wouldn't stick out on the main casting like a sore thumb, but would still be handy.

THat's what I did - can't upload a photo at the moment but I'll get one up shortly. I put a double switch on it one for the motor and one for the light.

 

[JHuston]

I'm partial to Delta drill presses; I have three ( technically). In the woodworking area, I have a two head 17" gang drill with one 1939 head on the left, and a 1946 head on the right, set up for mortising.

In the metalworking area, I have a 1937-ish 14" drill press for light duty, and a 1952 17" retrofitted with a later T-slot table and 1 hp repulsion induction motor for the heavy lifting ( the 14" on the right is long gone).

-James Huston

 

[nine4gmc]

Where did you get all those round bar table fences from?

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[JHuston]

The fences are from older Delta table saws, cut down to fit.
-James Huston

 

[nine4gmc]

That's an awesome idea!

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[Tonellin]

Picked up this craftsman 100 for $75 this weekend. It's in great shape and runs beautifully. Having a hard time cleaning up the serial plate, any type of cleaning removes more information. The only part of the model number I can decipher is ***.2362x - I'm guessing it's a 103.23620 which places the manufacturing date in the late 1940s.

 

[vertguy]

Picked up this craftsman 100 for $75 this weekend. It's in great shape and runs beautifully. Having a hard time cleaning up the serial plate, any type of cleaning removes more information. The only part of the model number I can decipher is ***.2362x - I'm guessing it's a 103.23620 which places the manufacturing date in the late 1940s.

I have the Dunlap version of that same DP (model 103.23621). Nice little DP... but after recently acquiring a 150, mine needs to find a new home.

 

[Tonellin]

Very nice! I agree on the age, but that's a model 80 with the Jacobs chuck option.
http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/222/4460.pdf#page=23

Awesome! Thanks for the additional info.

I was reading your impressive 'craftsman drill press' thread and came across the evolution of the 100 series, but wasn't familiar enough with the drill to realize it was actually a model 80

 

[Tonellin]

I have the Dunlap version of that same DP (model 103.23621). Nice little DP... but after recently acquiring a 150, mine needs to find a new home.

The guy I bought it from had a gorgeous 150 - unfortunately he wouldn't let me buy both haha

 

[vertguy]

Speaking which, I have not got around to posting my cleaned up 150 that I purchased a couple weeks ago from the original buyer's son. I opted to just do a light restore and not a full repaint... mainly surface rust as the only part that required paint was the motor mount plate. Now I am just waiting for a link belt to get 'er spinning.

 

[JZiggy]

Speaking which, I have not got around to posting my cleaned up 150 that I purchased a couple weeks ago from the original buyer's son. I opted to just do a light restore and not a full repaint... mainly surface rust as the only part that required paint was the motor mount plate. Now I am just waiting for a link belt to get 'er spinning.

Nice looking center pulley!

 

[vertguy]

Nice looking center pulley!

Yep!

And it fit perfectly without needing the spacer.

 

[JZiggy]

Very interesting! In my limited experience I've found that the older drill press columns from some Craftsman 100's had the small ID 2.375" hence no spacer needed. But the newer ones, certainly any Craftsman 150's or the newer, ****-ugly late 60's style all had a slightly bigger ID of 2.475".

If you look at a factory multi-speed pulley there are a pair of snap rings that adapt it to the larger ID.

 

[don long]

I just scored another old drill press that needs a little TLC

 

[Outlawmws]

Now THAT one needs a treadmill motor!

Nice find Don!

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

Well I'm sure there are a couple other camelback drills in this thread but as the topic is back at the top of the page here is mine. I picked it up about 10 years ago and this is what it looked like when I found it. It was so filthy I wasn't even sure what I had until we could get it out in the light.



It actually wasn't too bad to move out and load but I did pull the head shaft as it was too tall to slide under a beam that had it hemmed in. I think we just wrapped a strap around the base and skidded it out where we could lift it. The wife was thrilled with this showing up on the trailer...and the shop had a lot more empty space back then.



The restoration took a couple of months. I had it completely apart and rebuilt a lot of the drive system starting over from scratch. It had come out of an old sawmill sometime in the past and the original lower cone pulley was nowhere to be found. Some millwright in the past had fitted a drive all gearbox and ran V-belts up to the head shaft. I kept a modified version of that but added a lot of guarding and styling on the new drive. Here is a couple of pics after I was done.





And here it is in the 'final' spot it occupies in the shop. The ceiling over the drill is 9' tall and I still needed to bore a hole through it for the spindle to pass when the head is raised. It is a 32" Mechanics Machine Company sliding head drill. The spindle is MT 5. Back gears and power feed available. I kind of designed the wall and room behind it to let it fit in the shop without being too intrusive...it's a pretty big footprint. I can still get fairly large items on the table. And of course you need some big bits. Ed.

 

[f18shack]

Here's mine, a fresh CL find with original paint. It's a 15" Craftsman 101.03662 floor model, built circa 1938-1941.

 

[CrotalusAtrox]

Found this Delta Rockwell tonight it is in fantastic shape paid $175. I am like a kid on Christmas morning. It is a model 15-665 with the 1140 RPM 1/2 HP motor so you can go as low as 280 RPM

 

[CrotalusAtrox]

Well I'm sure there are a couple other camelback drills in this thread but as the topic is back at the top of the page here is mine. I picked it up about 10 years ago and this is what it looked like when I found it. It was so filthy I wasn't even sure what I had until we could get it out in the light.



It actually wasn't too bad to move out and load but I did pull the head shaft as it was too tall to slide under a beam that had it hemmed in. I think we just wrapped a strap around the base and skidded it out where we could lift it. The wife was thrilled with this showing up on the trailer...and the shop had a lot more empty space back then.



The restoration took a couple of months. I had it completely apart and rebuilt a lot of the drive system starting over from scratch. It had come out of an old sawmill sometime in the past and the original lower cone pulley was nowhere to be found. Some millwright in the past had fitted a drive all gearbox and ran V-belts up to the head shaft. I kept a modified version of that but added a lot of guarding and styling on the new drive. Here is a couple of pics after I was done.





And here it is in the 'final' spot it occupies in the shop. The ceiling over the drill is 9' tall and I still needed to bore a hole through it for the spindle to pass when the head is raised. It is a 32" Mechanics Machine Company sliding head drill. The spindle is MT 5. Back gears and power feed available. I kind of designed the wall and room behind it to let it fit in the shop without being too intrusive...it's a pretty big footprint. I can still get fairly large items on the table. And of course you need some big bits. Ed.

That is awesome.

 

[454ragtop]

ORC, that is awesome, love the lazy susan drill rack too.

Chilang, cool press, probably the best 15" Delta Rockwell made, the 6X6, 6 speeds and 6" quill travel, the 1140 RPM motor makes it that much nicer.

 

[Outlawmws]

Wow, F18, Everything but the table lift!

Love those restored camelbacks...

 

[Josephs44]

Just got this Walker Turner "Driver" model at an online auction. Got it and a pile of stuff around it for $65. Best I can date it is 1930's sometime. Is that about right?

Can't decide if I want to keep it or the Craftsman 150 I got a few months ago.

 

[G20-Budo]

Picked up this craftsman 100 for $75 this weekend. It's in great shape and runs beautifully. Having a hard time cleaning up the serial plate, any type of cleaning removes more information. The only part of the model number I can decipher is ***.2362x - I'm guessing it's a 103.23620 which places the manufacturing date in the late 1940s.

What a great bargain you got there! Nice looking drill press!

 

[f18shack]

Everything but the table lift!.

Yeah, true, a table lift would have been really nice. That said, the table isn't that terribly heavy, and with a better polish on the column it should move easier.