My New Drill Press (Rebuild Required)
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steve63
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From what I saw in the first pics you have a Clark forklift. I used to spend quite a bit of time hunched under the hood of those trucks. If you take care of them they run forever!
Good luck with your project.
Good luck with your project.
are you rebuilding this unit for use in a business or home use? i work in ship repair, and we don't have anything near that size in our fab shops. then again, we mostly do structural welding and the like. so what you gonna use it for?
ben
ben
I can't wait to see the progress.
Thanks!
steve63 said:
Good eye! It's a 60's model CY-80. So far it's been a good machine, I haven't had any trouble to speak of.
reinhardt said:
Hi Ben,
Both. It's always nice to have a large drill available for fabrication work, this machine will satisfy that.
930dreamer said:
Slowly but surely!
Corny Cornwell
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Interesting thread. And one of the reasons I signed up for this site after lurking.
Hi Cool,
It will be a daily use machine, mostly for general drilling of fabricated parts.
Corny Cornwell said:
Glad you signed up! Welcome to GJ.
Dirk Hollis
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Looks like you have your work cut out for you. FYI the power elevating mechanism has an overtravel mechanism that I believe operates the clutch.
Do you need a second one?, theres one at the steelworks next to a friend shop. I'm not sure it's for sale, but it looks cool. The Hammer is getting closer.
Update
Robert Bernstein on Old Woodworking Machines was kind enough to lend me his copy of the operating, maintenance and parts manual for the machine. I scanned it into a PDF and returned the manual to him. Thanks again!
Here's a page out of the manual:
Robert Bernstein on Old Woodworking Machines was kind enough to lend me his copy of the operating, maintenance and parts manual for the machine. I scanned it into a PDF and returned the manual to him. Thanks again!
Here's a page out of the manual:
Nealcrenshaw
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"Before unloading from car"
Understatement of the year!!
Looking forward to the rebuild!!
Understatement of the year!!
Looking forward to the rebuild!!
jeepnut24
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Im guessing that refers to a railway car....
Can't wait to see some progress on this.
djcrunkmix
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Awesome...subscribed. I love this kind of stuff. *Grabs pop-corn*
Im guessing that refers to a railway car....
Can't wait to see some progress on this.
Camaros didn't exist when that manual was published, so I must also assume they mean a railroad car.
Note the rope sling!
i'm fairly new to the board, so i am just starting to connect who is who. you are rebuilding a massive drill press and a massive bench grinder. i work in ship repair and we dont have any equipment that huge in our shop! what are you doing that you need equipment this large?
ben
ben
Omphaloskeptic
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A Pmech, what a monster drill! The set-up instructions call for a 1' base; are you going to need to beef up your floor?
I can't wait until you get your 25 ton gantry crane installed. You are planning to get one, aren't you? lol
I can imagine at some point you're going to be shopping/rebuilding a Bessemer Converter along with a hot rolling mill and presses to boot!
Between the metal working/machining, rebuilding, wood milling, finish flooring and family life, do you ever do this thing they call SLEEP???
KUDOS TO YOU, SIR.
I can't wait until you get your 25 ton gantry crane installed. You are planning to get one, aren't you? lol
I can imagine at some point you're going to be shopping/rebuilding a Bessemer Converter along with a hot rolling mill and presses to boot!
Between the metal working/machining, rebuilding, wood milling, finish flooring and family life, do you ever do this thing they call SLEEP???
KUDOS TO YOU, SIR.
Hi Ben,
I own a general machine shop. This machine will be used daily to drill holes up to 2" in diameter, primarily for fabrication work.
As radial drills come, this is a small one. A large radial drill would be a 8' arm by 24" column with 15HP on the spindle weighing in the 40,000 pound range. This one is a lightweight at 5,000 lbs.
Omphaloskeptic said:
The floor will be fine, it has lots of steel in it. I have much heavier machines on the floor and have not noted any movement.
No crane yet and probably won't be in this building, the ceiling height is too low.
Sleep? What's that?
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theoldwizard1
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Nealcrenshaw
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John dont leave us hanging.
Yeah, I know...
Been looking at it this week. Once it warms up a little we'll see how things go. I spent most of last summer helping Mitch sort out a tough situation and I'm really glad I was able to help, but it did set back some shop projects!
JASTECH
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"What are "radial drills" typically used to machine ?"
AM & FM Radials of course!
John, Nice project!
Kudos to you and all that refurbish our high quality USA made items!
AM & FM Radials of course!
John, Nice project!
Kudos to you and all that refurbish our high quality USA made items!
LOL Jas,
Radial drills can be used for all kinds of things. Although, as their name suggests, the primary application is drilling and tapping holes of all sizes. Because the head of a radial drill can be moved up and down, side to side and in and out, drilling multiple holes in a large workpiece is easy. With a radial drill, there's no need to reposition the workpiece under the spindle for each hole - the spindle comes to the hole location.
Radial drills can also be used for boring and thread boring, if appropriately equipped. American Tool Works used their "Hole Wizard" line of radial drills to great advantage in line-boring lathe and drilling machine heads, among other things:
A drill equipped for thread boring can thread holes 8" or more in diameter without a tap. The thread is generated by timing the spindle advance to the spindle rotation.
premierplayer
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What type of cutter? Single pass, or multiple?
Provincial
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A friend of mine started as an apprentice in a large shop in Salem, OR in the 1960's. The shop assigned one operator to each machine, one of which was a radial drill like yours. Darrell said it took a long time for him to figure out that when they told him to take something over to the "Hole Wizard" they meant the machine, not the operator!
Adam McLaughlin
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I too enjoyed this, any updates?
Adam
Adam
bowmard
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For a number of years I used a big, big brother to this little Cincinnati to remachine welded up drilled and tapped holes in wheel tractor case and frame assemblies. These Cincinnati radials were in great abundance before NC became the watchword in American industry.
oldldh
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Subscribed...
Any updates????
Any updates????
dirtmister16
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updates would be good, for any of his threads. he has soo many projects we need info!
SiGmA_X
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+1000!! Update us John!
Diesel_Crawler
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I think he died.
G_P
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I've come close a couple times, but I'm still here.
I've been using the machine a fair amount. Even with it's problems it has done what I need it to do so far. Other work and machines have had a higher priority.
Adam McLaughlin
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Glad to hear from you John
Was worried there for a bit,
Adam
Was worried there for a bit,
Adam
longlivepunk
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Any updates on this or the Bridgeport??
jabberwoki
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Man o man I`m in love SO SUBSCRIBED!!!!! is it done yet is it done yet!!!!!!!
dominus
Member
Hello again
May i ask about the current state of this project?
best regards
Kyriakos
May i ask about the current state of this project?
best regards
Kyriakos