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Selling a vintage machinist drill cabinet loaded with drill bits. This is a great turn-key drill storage setup for anyone looking to stock up their workbench or drill press area with organized tooling. This drill press is from my father's precision machine shop that he owned and operated from...

Heavy-duty vintage American drill press with its original South Bend badge and General Electric motor. The machine runs smoothly and would make an excellent addition to a home machine shop, restoration shop, or collector's workshop. Made in the USA by South Bend Lathe Works. This drill press...

I will do that soon. Thanks.

The ones you saw might have been posted here by me. They were taken down because they went up too soon after I joined this group.

Thanks for your input.

I'd have trouble selling the drill press for $150. I think I would sooner break it down and sell it part by part. I see on ebay the pulley systems are going for around $500.

Open. Here is my father's. It outlived him and he lived into his nineties.

Here are photos of the vise. thanks

My father owned a precision machine shop from around 1960 until the 1990s when he retired. At retirement he sold off his Hardinges, and much of the other equipment, but he held onto a 14" South Bend drill press, and various odds and ends machine tools. He has passed away, and my sisters have...

Here's one that' been around the block a few times.

The draws just slide in. 10 x 11.5 x 11.5. My father owned a machine shop, and sadly he has passed on and I am organizing and selling some items from the shop.

I don't think so. Looks more like the cookie monster.

That's a shame. Thanks for your reply.

I have been arguing with a friend about this old drill case from my father's machine shop. He says that there are drawers missing, but I think several slots were left open so that you could adjust the shelves up and down if you had somthing in the case that was a bit larger. Any thoughts...