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Looking for a used drill press

wdfwguy

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I'm trying to replace my HF 10" drill press, hopefully with a nice older one

How does this look? Owner says it works fine, just needs cleaned up.



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BD1

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How much you want to invest determines what you are gonna get.
The Delta are nice but most made in Taiwan. I would get a two belt setup. This has a front pulley set, a middle set, and a rear set. This will provide a greater choice of slow speeds for metal.
The older Rockwell and Powermatic are nice but not cheap.
 

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Early Taiwan machines were OK. (pretty well built, table lift/tilt/rotate, wide speed range and decent TEFC motors).

The machine you're looking at looks pretty rough. I wouldn't be comfortable going much over $100. These machines are not hard to find.
 
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The Cobbler

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You're looking at a Taiwanese import from the 80's

Two things seem to turn up here. Recent chinese presses like Ridgid, Porter Cable, HF, etc. Or, 70s and 80s Taiwan presses like this one.

I have one probably identical. it was given to me with a bad motor, I don't recall what was wrong with it, but I think it was a bad capacitor. it is a decent machine, it needs a new chuck and there is a fair bit of runout, haven't tried to identify what the issue is, .
 

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