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Hi Dave, I'm on the side of better safe than sorry. Taking very light conventional cuts (as opposed to climbing cuts) and keeping the quill close to the head might work with firmly clamped aluminum. I should mention that when the cutter pushes away from the workpiece, the entire assembly of...

Hi Dave, and welcome. I think I'd be more worried about the radial load you'd be placing on the lower spindle bearing than the axial load. Drilling is an axial load. Keep in mind that the milling cutter will try to deflect away from the workpiece, and the sideways push places radial load on...

Adding snap ring groove to DP quill I like the idea of "updating" the stop rod bracket to the more friendly design. Along that vein, I also add an update to any quill I happen to have out of a Craftsman DP in the area of the stop bracket. The original snap ring groove that's present on...

Hi all. During refurbishment, I've found a couple of threaded locking collars at the bottom of the spindle on Craftsman drill presses that had a sheared retaining pin through the spindle. I've also found variations in the holes through the collars for the pin, including a 3/16" hole through one...

Hi all. If you have access to a lathe, here's a refurbishing step you can take that will yield satisfying results. Chuck an arbor (ground shaft, drill rod, straight piece of stock) in an accurate collet and carefully mount your step pulley with the set screw to obtain minimum runout. If...

Hi everyone. One of the Craftsman 100 drill presses I refurbished had a Jacobs 6A chuck that was bound tightly on the taper, and the plain solid pin that retains the threaded lower collar to the spindle was sheared so that the collar could not be used to press the chuck off with wedges. I...

Musicinabottle: Did you get your chuck to come off?? I have a technique that I've used that might come in handy.

On the topic of cross uses for salvaged DP tables, here's a mohawk 103.0305 remnant that I use to support a lil' Shopmaster saw. It has a tiny footprint in my crowded shop, and I use it just for quick crosscuts when the other saws are set to dead angles that I don't want to disturb. (Remind me...

Thanks Drew. BTW, yer bike got all dirty. (I put many thousands of miles on various road bikes, but always seemed to hurt myself whenever I got on a mountain bike! I just couldn't keep up with the way things change so quickly just in front of the front wheel.)

Hi everyone! My name is Dana Paul, and I have a basement shop in Ithaca, NY. I have a growing collection of old wood and metal working machines that I fix, fine tune, and happily use to make custom espresso tampers (tamperista.com). I've followed many threads on this forum to great advantage...