Can anyone please help identify this part???

[Pagan Wizard]

I bought a mortising attachment for my Craftsman/King Seeley 150 drill press, on eBay, and it came in the package. I cannot figure out how to attach it to the drill press, and then I thought, maybe it will fit on my Craftsman radial arm saw, but it won't. As you can hopefully see in the pictures, it has a part number (????) of 25415-103. I tried searching eBay, and startpage dot com, which is a google clone that doesn't save your search records, or pile a bunch of spyware on your computer, and of course, I found nothing. It looks like it's supposed to attach to a shaper of some sort, but I honestly have no clue what it's for.

 

[slowtwitch73]

Rotary planer

 

[PCustoms]

Rotary planer head

Edit: should have hit refresh...

 

[bwringer]

No clue, but are you saying you got the mortising attachment you expected, but it came with this bonus mystery item?

Or did you get this whatsit instead of what you ordered?

 

[Provincial]

If you have the spindle with a nut that retains the chuck on the spindle taper, that tool will fit right on. Unscrew the nut on the chuck with a pin in one of the holes, and it will force the chuck off the taper. Then this tool will screw on to the exposed threads.

Be very careful using that tool. It can grab the work and throw it if it digs in. It is a form of "fly cutter."

 

[Milton Shaw]

Most of the cheap import drill presses don't have the thread locking ring that that one uses. My real old Craftsman drill press does have and also the ring for the mortise attachment to clamp onto the arbor and follow the mortise bit into the wood to form the square. The import drill press my wife has nothing to retain the chuck except the taper which I think is a J33.

 

[American Locomotive]

A Craftsman wattzit fer?

Well my brother just sent me these photos. He cleared a whole table at an estate sale sat. For $7.50 and this was in with the good and the bad. The # on the casting is 25415-103. I've only seen the pic's so I don't know if that's a J-taper on the top. Maybe a drill press mounted margarita...

www.garagejournal.com

 

[FrankLee]

And if your dare use it, the taper socket and the spindle taper should be immaculately clean so the two mate securely. You do not want the spindle spinning in the socket.

 

[crguy]

It's a crazy dangerous attachment that smart people won't ever use.

 

[Pagan Wizard]

No clue, but are you saying you got the mortising attachment you expected, but it came with this bonus mystery item?

Or did you get this whatsit instead of what you ordered?

I bought a mortising attachment, and this was in the box.

 

[Pagan Wizard]

TYVM to everyone who responded!!!! Now I know what it is, and why to not use it.