Broken drill press bad and table

[billyvray]

I'd appreciate suggestions.
My Buffalo Tools Corp drill press fell over and broke the cast iron base and the table mount.
I doubt the MFG will be able to replace, given that they are import based and this is 20 years old.
The press works great and I would love to fix somehow.

Any thoughts from this noble group?

Bill

 

[Majordisorder]

If its a clean break, brazing might be possible.

 

[Shootinok]

If its a clean break, brazing might be possible.

^^^^^ my first thought too. ^^^^^

Assuming this is one of the Taiwan units (you indicated 20yrs old) those are pretty tough old drills. I understand why you don't want to give up on it.

Another option could be to watch craigslist and find one that could donate parts. Combine the two and eBay what's left over to recover some cost.
If you find another one though - bring a caliper with you. The post sizes vary slightly. I found a floor model once with no drill head and intended to make mine into floor model. The posts were just different enough that it wouldn't work. So I made it a grinder base.

 

[shawhite]

Pictures?

 

[LXCam]

Without seeing pics of the table I got nothing. And I'm not sure how your base broke from just falling over but here is how I fixed mine. The base was busted just forward if the column so I grafted this chunk of 1" plate into the assembly. This was almost 20yrs ago and it's seen a few moves between shops without issue. The column base is thru bolted to the column receiver and as you can see I used two bolts forward into a section of the base plate that allowed the bolts to be recessed.

Good luck.

 

[dogdog]

I have good results stitch mig ( a series of tack welds) my 14" delta band saw back without any issues..... just look up (google) cast iron welding or brazing. Basically, I just clean the area up, v-grove it... heat the piece up with a torch, stitch weld it slowly and heat the rest of the area with torch to maintain even temp. when I finish.... I drill the end of then fill the hole with weld again... heat it with torch and pin it with a ball pin hammer. and let it cool slowly.... There are few good youtube videos, the basic trick is even heat and slowly let it cool , like bury it in dry sand.. good luck though it various a lot with cast iron/steel.

 

[bubinga]

Without seeing pics of the table I got nothing. And I'm not sure how your base broke from just falling over but here is how I fixed mine. The base was busted just forward if the column so I grafted this chunk of 1" plate into the assembly. This was almost 20yrs ago and it's seen a few moves between shops without issue. The column base is thru bolted to the column receiver and as you can see I used two bolts forward into a section of the base plate that allowed the bolts to be recessed.

Good luck.

Good looking and I'm sure Works well. Good Job, LXCam

 

[Getusum111]

pics?

 

[rsanter]

Pictures of the damage and a suggestion, you may want to also post the side of the pipe/tube it uses, might be easier to find a replacement base used than fix it.
Brand doesn’t matter, just that the tube size matches

 

[kkroger]

^ If it is just the BASE that is damaged and the flange on the tube is still good unbolt it, drill a piece of plate bolt it to that, you can make "Feet" of sorts on the corners of the plate... for the Table, you may well be able to do similar depending on the damage to the table... pics would help, if it is nice and clean, bevel it out jig it up preheat it with a MAPP torch or O/A rig, Burn it in, then bury it in dry dry dry sand... let it cool SLOW... then peen it with a needle scaler or the like... Or burn it in with TIG and some cast iron repair rod... after jigging it up, I have a drill press I repaired a bunch of years ago now... still works fine. the clamp on the column for the table split from the clamp screw around to the opposite side by the table pivot...

 

[billyvray]

Thanks guys. I will post pics. The ones I had on hand weren't good.

Bill

 

[billyvray]

 

[billyvray]

I broke the flange off the base and the table right where it mounts to the column bracket

 

[Ben Buck]

I just typed in Buffalo drill press parts.

All kinds of things popped up.

Just trying to help- YMMV ?