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You/re quite welcome! Always great to see another classic piece of USA iron getting some attention. GJ got me hooked on these old drill presses years ago.

lmg: That's a pre-WWII, Atlas-manufactured drill press. Probably built sometime in 1937 thru 1940. I've got the basic Dunlap model, built to run forever. Yours would have been top-of-the-line at the time. Here's a link to the 1937 Sears Power Tool Catalog off of the vintagemachinery.org site...

Is this Burgess by any chance?

Are those some Isetta parts I see in the mix?

Thanks wrenchr! That drill press was seriously used and abused during its lifetime. The original table was an "arc of shame hall of famer". The whole thing was covered in oil, dirt and grease. Parts had been hogged together over the years. Found all of the original parts on the Internet and...

Thanks! This is what it looked like when I got it.

I used Valspar Classic Royal Blue on a pre-War Dunlap drill press. Maybe a gnat's eyelash darker than the factory blue behind the Dunlap badge that was very well preserved. Got it at Lowe's for $4.00 a can. Took two to paint the whole DP and motor with a little left over. For what it's worth, I...

If you like potato guns, you'll love the Punkin' Chunkin' World Championships. What they show on TV doesn't begin to do justice to the unlimited guns. Current official world record is 4,695 feet although there was a guy in Utah that shot one over 5,500 feet. Don't know if it's still a going...

ybnormal: You are correct. They flew the B-52's out of here in the '60's and deployed them to Nam. The B-47's had been mothballed prior to that. The day the 52's left Austin they made two passes information over town. They let us out of school to watch them fly over. Once a common site flying...

Here's what each of us were handed after a presentation by a Civil Defense worker when I was in the fifth grade. Instructions for building bomb shelters were included. Hiding under our school desks was part of the drill. Bergstrom AFB was here with plenty of B-52's ready to go as well as at...

There are several of these on Google Images. Hope this one works for you. Matt does some amazing work.

Hitchin' post.

Valley Forge has been in this business for decades. You name it, they've got it. All USA made. Here in Central Texas I've gotten two, maybe three, years out of state flags regardless of where I got them or what they're made of. https://www.valleyforgeflag.com/16/home-page.htm

BSA: Check out the American Fan Collectors Forum. These guys eat, sleep and drink old fans > https://www.afcaforum.com/

You guys are great! I'll pass this along.