Show us your cool, "old" drill press

[lafester]

Looks a lot like a delta base but not really worth saving.

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[aggie113]

From the local guy's sale ad. An old Power King/Atlas 611. Not installed in the garage yet pending doors:

I'm curious if these are able to used for milling. The old manual seems to indicate they can do routing work at the least. Either way, it will be doing light duty as I have a Jet 2500 for the tough stuff. Just had to get a vintage drill press for the new garage

 

[ClappedOutBport]

Milling: no, or at least not practically.

 

[Outlawmws]

If that is a taper mount chuck, on either end, you do NOT want to side load it...

 

[aggie113]

Trying to find a good example of an Atlas Compound Cross Slide Table for the unit. Anyone have a line on places to find one, besides ebay?

 

[lafester]

eBay is the best place. Unless you find one locally on a dp, prices will be similar.

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[tool_scrounge]

Trying to find a good example of an Atlas Compound Cross Slide Table for the unit. Anyone have a line on places to find one, besides ebay?

Is this the Atlas one you are looking for? One pain is that the unit just barely fits into a USPS large priority mail box even with the handles removed. So to ship it safely it needs to be in a bigger box and the shipping cost will thus be higher.

 

[aggie113]

Yes, but with the T vise.

 

[crguy]

Yes, but with the T vise.

Been using drill presses at work and home for over 50 years, but never saw the need for a cross slide vise on one.

 

[aggie113]

Got a Jet 2500, didn't need to buy the old drill press. Don't need a large garage to put them in either

 

[crguy]

Got a Jet 2500, didn't need to buy the old drill press. Don't need a large garage to put them in either

Jet drill press quality is nothing to brag about. BTDT

 

[90roadster]

Can anyone of you guys recall which drill presses has design where you tilt the motor to take tension of the belt and change speed? Similar to this style on Benchmaster mill:

 

[cvairwerks]

That was an option on Canedy Otto's Royal series I think.

 

[90roadster]

thank you sir

 

[Rick B.]

That's a very nice looking piece of machinery.

 

[Rick B.]

Before and after pics of the 40's/50's Hamilton Maxi Jr. Sensitive Drill Press Refurb.

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[scrapdaddy]

Nice job!

 

[JoCoSawdust]

Beautiful job Rick!

 

[Outlawmws]

That was an option on Canedy Otto's Royal series I think.

Confirmed, yes it was.

 

[FliesLikeABrick]

1967 Powermatic 1200 with a 1hp 3ph Robbins & Myers motor. I have not come across many like this online yet, which are the same style castings. I think the closest I came was a multi-gang industrial unit.

Shop is of course 240 split-phase at home, so I put an eBayed 2hp VFD on it.

Replaced a couple broken set screws on the column hardware, and made an adapter plate to mount that cross-slide vise on the table. Also made the T-nuts to mount it, since these aren't the same size nuts that anything else in the shop uses. Overall cleaning+greasing, etc.

I bought this from a company that installed and serviced book printing+binding equipment, and they bought it from a school that was the original owners. Weight seems to be around 500lbs, the sellers loaded with a forklift but at home we had to get a bit creative to winch it off the trailer and onto a pallet jack. The nice thing is that the head and table can be lowered very far down (the lower collar supporting each rack and pinion can slide up/down the 4" column), so it could safely be moved without disassembly.

It came with a Jacobs 18N chuck, but I wanted something that can go down to 0" so I bought an older 14N to put on instead.

 

[Jwallace1]

Here is my 40's walker turner 20" with power down feed i just finished up. would like to get a new base and a belt guard if someone has one laying around

thanks

 

[DaveT]

1967 Powermatic 1200 with a 1hp 3ph Robbins & Myers motor. I have not come across many like this online yet, which are the same style castings. I think the closest I came was a multi-gang industrial unit.

What a beast!! Nice find

 

[DaveT]

Here is my 40's walker turner 20" with power down feed i just finished up. would like to get a new base and a belt guard if someone has one laying around

thanks

That is a beautiful piece of machinery there jwallace. Did you do the restoration? Looks like a nice color match next to that South Bend.

 

[Jwallace1]

Thanks

Yes I did the work myself. I finished the lathe a few months ago and had paint left over so I used the same color combo on the drill press

That is a beautiful piece of machinery there jwallace. Did you do the restoration? Looks like a nice color match next to that South Bend.

 

[harley jim]

Re: Show us your cool, "old" drill press

Hello all
My Bil just purchased this drill press and asked me to find some information on it. I'm not sure of his plans for it but it will most likely be sold. He said he believed that it was made around 1911.
Thanks to you for any information you may be able to shed on it.

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[250]

Cool machine badge. Having lived in Worcester until recently, its a nice touch.

 

[damon18]

Here's a really old one. Found on Facebook Marketplace.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/373835476966708/

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[90roadster]

can anyone identify this drill press?

 

[Jim C.]

Until recently, this 1959 Delta Rockwell 32” radial model had been my one and only DP. I’ve bored a lot of holes with it over the years. It’s a nice light to medium duty machine. It’s accurate and has minimal runout.

Jim C.

 

[crguy]

Until recently, this 1959 Delta Rockwell 32” radial model had been my one and only DP. I’ve bored a lot of holes with it over the years. It’s a nice light to medium duty machine. It’s accurate and has minimal runout.

Jim C.

There's not much love for that goofy design among users or the resale market. They stopped making those long ago for good reasons.

 

[Jim C.]

With the horizontal post intersecting the vertical post just a little right of center towards the head, it’s very stable and there’s no slop and almost zero runout. It actually drills a pretty nice hole. If I move the horizontal post in either direction much more than about two inches, accuracy of the holes starts to decline and there’s some vibration. If I push the head as far forward as possible to essentially make a floor standing model, the accuracy again is diminished and there’s some small amount of slop when pushing the bit into the workpiece. Almost like a deflection of the horizontal post. Like I said earlier, it’s great for light to medium work and is at its best when positioned as depicted below. I’ve had it for at least 25 years and I’ve been pretty happy with it as long as I don’t push it beyond its design limitations.

Jim C.

 

[Isaiah6113]

Show us your cool, "old" drill press

With the horizontal post intersecting the vertical post just a little right of center towards the head, it’s very stable and there’s no slop and almost zero runout. It actually drills a pretty nice hole. If I move the horizontal post in either direction much more than about two inches, accuracy of the holes starts to decline and there’s some vibration. If I push the head as far forward as possible to essentially make a floor standing model, the accuracy again is diminished and there’s some small amount of slop when pushing the bit into the workpiece. Almost like a deflection of the horizontal post. Like I said earlier, it’s great for light to medium work and is at its best when positioned as depicted below. I’ve had it for at least 25 years and I’ve been pretty happy with it as long as I don’t push it beyond its design limitations.

Jim C.

And you have the Retirement Light (with a paddle switch) an added bonus!

Matthew A.


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[Jim C.]

Re: Show us your cool, "old" drill press

And you have the Retirement Light (with a paddle switch) an added bonus!

Matthew A.


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Right! That light was on the drill press when I bought it. At the time I was just trying to get a hobby woodworking shop together. I was way more interested in the drill press. I didn’t even care about the light. It was a while before I realized the light was worth more than the drill press itself. I was lucky to later learn that the drill press is mounted on its original stand which is held together with correct bugle bolts and associated factory hardware. The cast iron table is in pretty good shape too. There’s a few small divots but no arc of shame. Like I said, I’ve been happy with it for a long time and I’ll continue to use it. But I’ll admit that my recently acquired floor standing drill press will see a lot more work in the future.

Jim C.

 

[Isaiah6113]

Re: Show us your cool, "old" drill press

Right! That light was on the drill press when I bought it. At the time I was just trying to get a hobby woodworking shop together. I was way more interested in the drill press. I didn’t even care about the light. It was a while before I realized the light was worth more than the drill press itself. I was lucky to later learn that the drill press is mounted on its original stand which is held together with correct bugle bolts and associated factory hardware. The cast iron table is in pretty good shape too. There’s a few small divots but no arc of shame. Like I said, I’ve been happy with it for a long time and I’ll continue to use it. But I’ll admit that my recently acquired floor standing drill press will see a lot more work in the future.

Jim C.

Nice original parts there Jim. You don’t need me to say this, you’re bang on, know the limitations and work within them. Your having done so means you have an accurate drill press that continues to serve you well.

It’s when one extends the post to its limits and then tries to drill through 1/2-inch steel that things get a little dicey. I remember in shop class (45 years ago) a kid overloading a drill press so much he bent the feed handle.


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[Jim C.]

One of these days I’ll get to this 1951 Delta 17” DP. I’ve had it for a while and all of its parts are packed away in boxes. It needs a restoration. I just haven’t had the time. Same goes for the Unisaw sitting next to it. Since I recently got an up and running Craftsman floor standing DP, that old Delta got pushed back on my list of things to do. Maybe I’ll do it this winter.

Jim C.

 

[Kozik]

Early DP600. has foot feed.

 

[Jim C.]

Early DP600. has foot feed.

That’s sharp! That definitely motivates me to get going on mine.

 

[d42jeep]

Here is a Boice Crane that I didn’t have room for myself that I grabbed out of a neighbor’s storage shed slated for demolition because I knew that my other neighbor would appreciate it. It now has a position of honor in his shop.
-Don

 

[tolndakoti]

Can you elaborate on the reasons they stopped making them?

I bought the 11 inch non-radial model, and I’m trying to learn as much as I can about it.

 

[JZiggy]

Early DP600. has foot feed.

I need to know more about those clamps. I have a table like that. Very cool!