Recent content by Peoria Murph

That method DOES sound incredibly easy -- somehow I thought I'd be coiling it ... like doing the outer ring and pushing it in somehow. Not sure why I didn't think of your way. I wish he was still around for those stories. He died when I was about 10 and he never really did talk about the...

Thank you all for the warm welcome and interesting theories about this machine. I'm going to check out those links you all shared and see what I can see! Of course I have no way of really knowing since grandpa died in 1982 and all records of the business are likely long gone... but it is...

Hi everyone, I'm Murph, probably the newest member as of this writing. I'm now the caretaker of my grandfather's old drill press. He was an electrician and this was in his shop for years. Eventually it made its way into my dad's business. I happened to stop by his shop after the new owners...