Drill press ID.
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Packard V8
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The motor appears to be a common fractional horsepower appliance takeoff.
The cast-in symbol on the side isn't familiar. However, the basic design is common to many of the 14" Delta/Buffalo/Boyce-Crane/Walker-Turner/et al of the cast iron era.
jack vines
The cast-in symbol on the side isn't familiar. However, the basic design is common to many of the 14" Delta/Buffalo/Boyce-Crane/Walker-Turner/et al of the cast iron era.
jack vines
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I may be mistaken, but that mark looks Asian to me.
Maybe Japanese?
There were, and still are, manufacturers of small stationary power tools, although nowadays the tools don’t get exported to the US much.
Hitachi and Makita used to fo similar small cast iron machinery, and I think still do for the Japanese market.
I presume that is a different manufacturer, but don’t know how to check the trademarks.
Maybe Japanese?
There were, and still are, manufacturers of small stationary power tools, although nowadays the tools don’t get exported to the US much.
Hitachi and Makita used to fo similar small cast iron machinery, and I think still do for the Japanese market.
I presume that is a different manufacturer, but don’t know how to check the trademarks.
good thoughts on this and much appreciated. I got a first hand look at it today and it does hve a plate on the head. It’s been well painted over and without stripping it is hard to get much off that. There are several Asian letters on it. The one dip I’ve found that shares the index pointer is a really old Delta Drill Press w/ Delta Milwaukee 1/3 HP 115/230v. They share the single handle as well. Couple pic.
Packard V8
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Probably from back in the day when Japan copied rather than innovated. The first Toyota Land Cruisers were powered by a copy of the Chevrolet 235" six cylinder; it was obsolete long before Toyota copied it.
Same with the Delta 14" drill press (the "220" is just the casting number on the headstock) a good enough 1930s design, but should have been easy to find a better model to copy by the 1960s
jack vines, who has owned for fifty years and still uses a Delta 14" DP.
Same with the Delta 14" drill press (the "220" is just the casting number on the headstock) a good enough 1930s design, but should have been easy to find a better model to copy by the 1960s
jack vines, who has owned for fifty years and still uses a Delta 14" DP.