2stroke1971
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I’ve been wanting a heavier drill press and I came across a Canedy-Otto for $125. There’s not a lot of info out there but I believe it’s a 3000fv but it’s a 14” not a 16”.
Previous owner said it had been converted to a v- belt drive at some point. It served at a sign shop after being dug out of a basement years ago. Two coats of paint before mine it had been yellow-not sure if that was the original color but it was the last coat I saw before bare metal.
It has a round table on the dovetail and a square table on the post. I rebuilt the shaft assembly with all new bearings and I had to make a pair of the drive pins…basically a piece of key stock with a dowel pin that connects the spindle to the driven outer shaft. There were some in there but they were short and beat up.
The taper in the spindle was messed up. I tried to clean it up with a reamer, but It didn’t work out. Finally I bored the end of the shaft and installed an MT-2 repair sleeve. I was sweating bullets but took my time. Got a nice interference fit, sleeve in the freezer, heated the shaft a bit and used some retaining compound. A few taps with a brass hammer and it seated well. I had to mill slots in the sleeve to make room for the wedge tool.
Spindle runs whisper quiet and the runout is at just over .001. And it’s consistent along the spindle so not cocked. All in all I’ve got around $250 in it between purchase and parts. I’ll get to doing the bearings in the motor spindle at some point but they sound decent enough.
Need to do some more detailing and get some tooling for it. The boring head in it is the only MT2 item I had on hand to test it with. It needs a little detailing but I’m really happy with it so far!
Previous owner said it had been converted to a v- belt drive at some point. It served at a sign shop after being dug out of a basement years ago. Two coats of paint before mine it had been yellow-not sure if that was the original color but it was the last coat I saw before bare metal.
It has a round table on the dovetail and a square table on the post. I rebuilt the shaft assembly with all new bearings and I had to make a pair of the drive pins…basically a piece of key stock with a dowel pin that connects the spindle to the driven outer shaft. There were some in there but they were short and beat up.
The taper in the spindle was messed up. I tried to clean it up with a reamer, but It didn’t work out. Finally I bored the end of the shaft and installed an MT-2 repair sleeve. I was sweating bullets but took my time. Got a nice interference fit, sleeve in the freezer, heated the shaft a bit and used some retaining compound. A few taps with a brass hammer and it seated well. I had to mill slots in the sleeve to make room for the wedge tool.
Spindle runs whisper quiet and the runout is at just over .001. And it’s consistent along the spindle so not cocked. All in all I’ve got around $250 in it between purchase and parts. I’ll get to doing the bearings in the motor spindle at some point but they sound decent enough.
Need to do some more detailing and get some tooling for it. The boring head in it is the only MT2 item I had on hand to test it with. It needs a little detailing but I’m really happy with it so far!
