Recent content by flingwing1969

Looks like you either quit or dropped out of posting. Certainly would like to see your progress - I have a 27" 1905 version that is remarkably similar but is hugely better condition.

Thanks.

I can assure you I will not be hand holding this beast and drilling metal - it will be in a stand if used that way. I may do some timbers with it, at least give it a try. Thanks for the reassurance that I didn't overpay.

Before I put my 4 in 1 bucket on to pull the stumps, there was a bit of tidying up to do, like removing the downed trees from the work site. My 38 hp CUT makes the job much easier.

'tis, my plan. Cleared 17 more trees from the pad yesterday, that makes a total of 21 dropped (many smaller ones). Only two more to drop for the pad proper, plus maybe three more to give a wider swing into the new driveway. I needed a winch to persuade a couple of 60' cedars to not-fall...

Shouldn't be a problem the attic space is unconditioned space and there is a large air plenum between the attic ceiling and the roofing. Combine this with healthy sized vents in the eave space between the trusses, and a full length vented ridge cap and air movement should be sufficient. Thanks...

I will be pouring my new shop floor/footings next week. It will look somewhat like the drawing attached, but with a "hay-loft" door above the garage doors and no returns on the eave tails. The shop will be 32 x 50, post and beam, single story but with attic trusses 2' oc. The trusses...

Thank you John. I understand the point made by our fellow member but I do agree with you - I plan on changing out the grease, cleaning it up a bit (maybe) and using it for building my post and beam shop, away from my drill press. I love the slow speed of this monster, how much larger the drill...

Thanks! The best of compliments from this forum. :)

Can't see why it wouldn't really, thanks for the encouragement. I'm hoping to design mine to also act as a horizontal boring machine.

Here is a copy of the page from the '39 catalog showing the price for the drill at $73. A princely sum in 1939 equal to $1,238 today, adjusted for inflation. Don't think I'd buy one at that price, would you?:wtf:

Thanks for the encouragement - Lord knows my wife doesn't share my passion for elderly iron (she has her own thing for old - and new - sewing machines). I did a bit of clean yesterday. I found that brake cleaner really does a nice job of taking off the aged on grease and grime and, because...

I've said it before, I'm a sucker for old tools. I went to the Collectingsnapon.com site and tried to register but their anti-spam is a PITA and it bounced me out after three tries. I was, however, able to search without membership and I found an extensive collection of Snap-On catalogs. I...

Thanks. Heading there now.

I can find zip on this drill motor on the web. Anybody have anything?