Anybody want an OLD drill press?

[MMiller]

I was up to the shop yesterday and found an old drill press out behind the shop. I asked the manager about it, and he asked if I wanted to have it, just come get it. I tried to get pics of it, but the camera would not work. ITs easily 6' tall, 4 ft wide, and about 6' deep. It runs off one large flat belt off a motor to a bottom shaft, then to another set of flat pulleys up to a top shaft. The table is about 18" accross. I forget the name of the company that made it, but they were from Rock Island Il. I'll be by there again tomorrow, I'll try and get the name again.

I'm not sure it would fit in the back of a pickup truck, it would be best to come with a trailer. Does anybody want it? Its in Cedar Rapids Iowa.

I picked up a Zep parts washer they had to get rid of to pass a company inspection. Put $20 in the party fund for a good parts washer.

Michael

 

[krooser]

Get a name and maybe a pic....sounds interesting...maybe a roller bed style?

 

[rdnkjeeper]

Wish I was closer, would come and snag it.

 

[MMiller]

Get a name and maybe a pic....sounds interesting...maybe a roller bed style?

What is a roller bed? I'll get the name today, I'll keep you guys posted.

Michael

 

[oldgoaly]

sounds like a line shaft driven drill press
tt

 

[Uncle Buck]

Moldy oldy, but with a little work prolly a keeper! Definitely out of an old time flat belt shop with the overhead line by the description!

 

[bmwpower]

I just saw one of these at an auction the other day...fricken huge. I don't think it sold. I should have snapped a pict.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

The high school auto shop I was in in the early '70's had one of these, donated by a local textile mill. It had been in their plant maintenance shop. They were originally driven by a shaft running the length of the shop and later, when the shaft was disabled, the electric motor was added.

Charles

 

[Rrumbler]

Sounds like an old "production" type machine. A shop I used to work in had a "BUFFALO" drill press that they had attached a ten horse motor to at the base, and rigged a four inch belt to replace the original line shaft belt. That was one he77 of a machine.