jtbinvalrico
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So I roll out at 0700 to go see what the man has listed as a "1962 Craftsman floor-standing drill press 150." - I'm buying it unless it's a complete basketcase.
Really cool old guy.....a machinist who had already parted ways with his lathe (dern.....) Seems he had asked a friend to help him list this drill press. The man thought the friend would post it in all the usual haunts. I watch Clist for my entire region.....to me that's about 1/3 the state of Florida. This definitely wasn't posted in any of the usual places. I only found it because I was researching the old Cman 150 DPs, which linked me to a site that apparently lists nothing but drill presses nationwide. You can narrow your search by city, so I start dumping in all my nearby cities and find the above referenced listing. There's no picture, and it's been posted for six days.
So he pops open his garage, and there's no 1960's Cman 150....but there is this. Appears to be a 1942 Atlas-made Cman bearing model number 101.03662:
I'm not too keen on that bluish-purple they shot these things with back then. Probably gonna do my favorite grey on black.
On the way out, he hands me some gigantic drill bits and reminds me to always start small and work my way up through the sizes. That's my electric screwdriver for scale:
....and he threw this in too:
The thing purrs......Bearings seem firm and smooth. I'm not touching these bearings; no reason to right now. It's got that extra pulley set in the middle that slows the drill down to a crawl.....And then I flipped the belts around to top speed. Holy cow! I tried to calculate it. I think the slow speed is about 200 rpm.....but my math is trying to tell me a top speed of 19,000 rpm ???? That can't be right. For you math guys: the motor is 1725 rpm, at the top speed setting the belt rides the 5" pulley on the motor shaft and drives shaft number two with a 1.5" pulley. The 5" pulley on shaft two then drives a 1.5" pulley on the spindle. Something tells me that the instruction manual I can't find would advise against that speed.....but then again, I did see some old accessory catalogs for these machines that listed shaper attachments. I suppose the "routerish" speed could be used for that. Of course, any insights are appreciated.
Total: $150.00.......and I got to talk shop with a retired machinist
Really cool old guy.....a machinist who had already parted ways with his lathe (dern.....) Seems he had asked a friend to help him list this drill press. The man thought the friend would post it in all the usual haunts. I watch Clist for my entire region.....to me that's about 1/3 the state of Florida. This definitely wasn't posted in any of the usual places. I only found it because I was researching the old Cman 150 DPs, which linked me to a site that apparently lists nothing but drill presses nationwide. You can narrow your search by city, so I start dumping in all my nearby cities and find the above referenced listing. There's no picture, and it's been posted for six days.
So he pops open his garage, and there's no 1960's Cman 150....but there is this. Appears to be a 1942 Atlas-made Cman bearing model number 101.03662:
I'm not too keen on that bluish-purple they shot these things with back then. Probably gonna do my favorite grey on black.
On the way out, he hands me some gigantic drill bits and reminds me to always start small and work my way up through the sizes. That's my electric screwdriver for scale:
....and he threw this in too:
The thing purrs......Bearings seem firm and smooth. I'm not touching these bearings; no reason to right now. It's got that extra pulley set in the middle that slows the drill down to a crawl.....And then I flipped the belts around to top speed. Holy cow! I tried to calculate it. I think the slow speed is about 200 rpm.....but my math is trying to tell me a top speed of 19,000 rpm ???? That can't be right. For you math guys: the motor is 1725 rpm, at the top speed setting the belt rides the 5" pulley on the motor shaft and drives shaft number two with a 1.5" pulley. The 5" pulley on shaft two then drives a 1.5" pulley on the spindle. Something tells me that the instruction manual I can't find would advise against that speed.....but then again, I did see some old accessory catalogs for these machines that listed shaper attachments. I suppose the "routerish" speed could be used for that. Of course, any insights are appreciated.
Total: $150.00.......and I got to talk shop with a retired machinist
on the side loads for milling. 
