Recent content by crguy

From my years of experience using drill presses, 240 is faster than I like to run drills over 1/2", as well as hole saws in any material.

That's a good old drill press, but you're going to need more speed reduction than that setup to get it down slow enough for much metal work.

If you keep your tools clean and dry, they won't get your hands dirty just picking them up.

Looks shop made to me using an old punch or something for the handle that happened to have those markings.

Could have also been a fence or guide.

Then why are you so worried about who made the one piece?

Those markings are for just that single piece, not the maker of the whole thing.

Possibly a cobbled together unfinished project. Where's the downfeed? The pieces that fit on the column look to be made from barstock, not castings as you normally see on factory made drill presses.

Plenty of post drills around to pick from. That's a very basic one and incomplete. Can't imagine why that big pulley would even be with it.

I've seen a few of those over the years, that handle may be a replacement. The place to find more info on those is Roger Smiths books. Did you get the Chaplin? That could have been a better plane.

The name & number would be stamped in the front end.

Those are a light duty unit marketed to farmers and home shop users. Several companies made similar units.

With all the disclosure rules and inspections these days before you sell a house, the asbestos issue will always come up. And if you have to bring the pros in to clean it up, you'll pay big time.

Just wait until you try to sell that house. Those ceilings will seriously devalue the house and you may end up paying to have it professionally removed at big bucks price. Much smarter to deal with it yourself while you still can.

Definitely. When I removed ours, one area had been painted and it was a lot harder to get off.