Anyone know who made this old drill press?

Jere · Jul 8, 2014

I bought this thing with table on whim, for 99 bucks probably shouldn't have but couldn't walk away. It has no markings on it with old grey paint, the table is a military looking olive drab. The motor is a ge, looks kind of like the one on a 1930s industrial singer sewing machine.

The press sits on the wood cribbing/spacer on the table top when assembled, but I couldn't lift it that high.

Outlawmws · Jul 8, 2014

I suspect the motor was an add-on, and this originally was in a factory with a central drive shaft.

Better pics would also help.

Jere · Jul 8, 2014

I think you are right about the motor, there are some bolt holes that are not used and the motor mount looks fabricated.

I think that was where a name plate was.

looks like there was maybe a speed chart where those holes are.

not sure what that lever was for, it moves but didn't loosen anything.

I imagine it had a very large cast base with it, but don't know how the motor or drive would have been before someone made a new motor mount plate for it.

Jere · Jul 8, 2014

Oh and I forgot to mention there was another shaft and pulley that used flat belts. I assumed that pulley went with a buffalo press that was at the same shop.

Jere · Jul 9, 2014

OK looks like the press is an avey made somewhere around 1909 and 1919. It did have a lower section and a flat belt system. I wired it up last night and it drills through steel plate like butter, and runs whisper silent, and spins a little after it is shut off.

Though if I bump the table the whole thing vibrates for a good couple of minutes. The table is going to have to go or get modified. The table top is right about ¹/2 inch steel, so worst case scenario it will make some nice exhaust manifold flanges

Packard V8 · Jul 9, 2014

Here's what an Avey looked like with most of it there if you ignore the electric motor, V-belts and the '30s Mopar ****** lashup. It was flat belt driven from a factory line shaft.

Jere · Jul 9, 2014

Packard V8 said:
Here's what an Avey looked like with most of it there if you ignore the electric motor, V-belts and the '30s Mopar ****** lashup. It was flat belt driven from a factory line shaft.

Ha I came across that one this morning very neat! Those are the only photos I could find of the same model.

Do you still have it? Could you get some more pictures that are bigger by any chance?

Did you end up getting it running without the Chrysler transmission?

Packard V8 · Jul 9, 2014

I've taken off the motor and ******, but haven't made a drive pulley for the flat belt. The Avey is a really cool old DP.

Some of you ***** about work conditions today, but I'm old enough to remember when a guy would come to work every morning and stand there at that DP eight hours making holes in steel. Hot and noisy and dirty in the summer, cold and noisy and dirty in the winter, loads of steel on an overhead crane just secured by one choker cable. BTW, the 1964 minimum wage was $1.65 an hour, minus union dues. That seems low, until the inflation calculator says it would take a minimum wage today of $12.66 to equal that. We're getting screwed six ways from Sunday. Glad I made it out of there alive.

jack vines

Jere · Jul 10, 2014

Jack on the off chance you might want to do a v belt conversion let me know. I just dug up a dozen old v pulleys back of the garage. I guess the guy that built the garage was a junker/scrapper and he left some junk behind.

Eight hours a day at a drill press, just drilling holes... Wow that's nuts. Imagine the amount of holes a hundred year or so drill press has made in that amount of time.

Anyone know who made this old drill press?

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