Mikeske
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Premium Drill Press Model 0046 AKA KFF drill press
I answered a ad for a $125.00 drill press on craigslist yesterday and I have been wanting a drill press and for that price I wanted it if it worked. I get to the person home and the back story of the drill press was it was bought by the father-in-law new in 1984. It seems that the father in law died in 2008 and this has been sitting in a dry garage ever since. The gentleman plugs it in and demonstrated that the motor turned and went right up to speed quick and smoothly. He did state that it had belt slap and he shows me the belt adjustment knob and said what does knob do as he was a retired aviation engineer and not a wood worker or aviation mechanic.
I go over the machine and loosen the belt adjustment nuts and the mystery knob pull on it and adjust the belt. I explained that I have been using drill presses for the past 40 years and that I worked as a aviation mechanic, seems that both of us had worked for the same aviation firm and both of us were retired from them but this gentleman retired 8 years ahead of me.
The machine was in really good shape and was not dirty but covered in surface rust. It was obvious that was taken pretty good care of and worked as designed.
The nameplate on the front of the machine said Premium Tool Co. and listed the serial number, COO Taiwan, model number 0016 and date of manufacture of 1984. I could not tell but it looked like something was under the name and one I got it home and cleaned up I could see faintly the city of Kent, Washington
Last night I get the drill press and set about to clean off the surface rust and I was surprised as the Boeshield rust remover took it off the table and all of the surfaces quickly and easily. Seems that this machine was hardly used at all and was in better shape then I ever expected. I spent a good part of today finishing up the cleaning and I also lubricated the all the bearings and waxing all the surfaces and removing the remaining rust on the chrome surfaces.
I was doing research on it and hitting dead ends until I found some pictures on google of a Guardian drill press and mine was identical to it. I then started more into the search and examined the motor tag and found out these drill press were actually King Feng Fu was the manufacture in Taiwan. The fun part is will be if I can ever find a owners manual for the drill press I think that would be fun as in the early 1980's the foreign companies had a hard time translating from their native language to English.
I answered a ad for a $125.00 drill press on craigslist yesterday and I have been wanting a drill press and for that price I wanted it if it worked. I get to the person home and the back story of the drill press was it was bought by the father-in-law new in 1984. It seems that the father in law died in 2008 and this has been sitting in a dry garage ever since. The gentleman plugs it in and demonstrated that the motor turned and went right up to speed quick and smoothly. He did state that it had belt slap and he shows me the belt adjustment knob and said what does knob do as he was a retired aviation engineer and not a wood worker or aviation mechanic.
I go over the machine and loosen the belt adjustment nuts and the mystery knob pull on it and adjust the belt. I explained that I have been using drill presses for the past 40 years and that I worked as a aviation mechanic, seems that both of us had worked for the same aviation firm and both of us were retired from them but this gentleman retired 8 years ahead of me.
The machine was in really good shape and was not dirty but covered in surface rust. It was obvious that was taken pretty good care of and worked as designed.
The nameplate on the front of the machine said Premium Tool Co. and listed the serial number, COO Taiwan, model number 0016 and date of manufacture of 1984. I could not tell but it looked like something was under the name and one I got it home and cleaned up I could see faintly the city of Kent, Washington
Last night I get the drill press and set about to clean off the surface rust and I was surprised as the Boeshield rust remover took it off the table and all of the surfaces quickly and easily. Seems that this machine was hardly used at all and was in better shape then I ever expected. I spent a good part of today finishing up the cleaning and I also lubricated the all the bearings and waxing all the surfaces and removing the remaining rust on the chrome surfaces.
I was doing research on it and hitting dead ends until I found some pictures on google of a Guardian drill press and mine was identical to it. I then started more into the search and examined the motor tag and found out these drill press were actually King Feng Fu was the manufacture in Taiwan. The fun part is will be if I can ever find a owners manual for the drill press I think that would be fun as in the early 1980's the foreign companies had a hard time translating from their native language to English.
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