Recent content by Mk10

Oh, come on now...we're Americans. We can do it all. It's like I told my buddy in Perth the other day: "Yeah, you see, here in America, real men use both systems, and then break down the English system into decimals when we want to do fine work. "We have metric tools for a lot of our cars, and...

Hello. I recently acquired an old Craftsman Drill Press made by Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis that was in the old Brown Shoe Co. factory. It's pretty neat, and I've been taking it apart, rubbing it down with oil, replacing bearings in the motor, spindle pulley, and spindle assembly. Things...

I apologize in advance for being an idiot, but I'd rather admit it up front than act like I know what I'm talking about around people who do. There's a guy in town that has a bunch of treadmill motors, and I was wanting to convert a benchtop drill press to use one. It would be for occasional...