48James
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Show us your cool old drill presses!
Recently started to restore a very old delta drill press.
Recently started to restore a very old delta drill press.
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Show Us Your Drill Presses :Mr.T:
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Enough with the jibber jabber. Now show us some drill presses fools!!ZRX61
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ZRX61
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Started to resto the Tiger 18 this week. It's going to be green.
I'm going with this color:
Already took care of the table & base:
I'm going with this color:
Already took care of the table & base:
hofferwood
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From this
To this
Chuck
To this
Chuck
mrbreezeet1
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Just got my newest drill in the shop this evening. In the first photo I have it hanging from slings to remove the shop brew coolant tray a previous owner put under the machine:
Here it is inside for the night. It will stay here for the near term, until I have a chance to pull the head, column and arm for overhaul. The little drill on the right is my first drill press, bought when I was 8 or 9 from the Cummins traveling tool show. Not a very good machine, but it served its purpose. I use it on occasion for coring holes in tile.
Here it is inside for the night. It will stay here for the near term, until I have a chance to pull the head, column and arm for overhaul. The little drill on the right is my first drill press, bought when I was 8 or 9 from the Cummins traveling tool show. Not a very good machine, but it served its purpose. I use it on occasion for coring holes in tile.
Very cool machine.
I notice Craftsman 150 drills are heavily represented here too. My grandfather used one in his shop for a number of years and it is still in the family. I've used it a couple times and it's a solid machine for its size.
mrbreezeet1
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Very cool machine.
I notice Craftsman 150 drills are heavily represented here too. My grandfather used one in his shop for a number of years and it is still in the family. I've used it a couple times and it's a solid machine for its size.
That one of mine passes the "Nickle Test"
Thanks,
Tony
Stuart in MN
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ZRX61
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That Craftsman I have is for sale 
evintho
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I still need to restore the X-Y vise and I'm currently working on a speed reduction unit for it but I'm pleased the way the resto on my floor model 50's Craftsman came out.
From this..............
To this................
From this..............
To this................
Chuck, How did you add the new center pulleys?
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Found this, might work: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=667366&postcount=35
http://www.vintageprojects.com/machine-shop/LoSpeedPress.pdf
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blazemaster83
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Here is my Silver Manufacturing 20 inch Drill press I recently restored. It still needs a belt for the powerfeed, but it functions. 3hp, with a #4 MT. I had to fabricate new bevel gears for the spindle, as the previous owner had broken them. Works great now. The pics make it look kinda pale, in person its a nice forest green. Here are some pics.
Before
After
Before
After
hofferwood
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GeorgiaHybrid
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Here is the one that I have torn down for a repaint and new bearings. It's an old 17" Delta but seems to be pretty stout..
Ocular Engineer
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It looks like those old Craftsman drill presses are pretty popular. I found mine in a basement of an estate sale. He is named Leroy for obvious reasons. The only thing I have done is replace the belts and add the cross vise.
premierplayer
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There was a Craftsman 150 on CL at the same time as my purchase. I'm sure I would have been happy with it, but, I got no response and moved on after waiting overnight.
Nothing way cool or exotic here. As new condition, and I thought a fair price.
I added a Stanley vise I've been storing for.... I don't know, maybe 15 years...
Now as I begin to learn how to use the machine, I'm learning I have some VERY dull drill bits (and some sharp ones).
Pictures:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1389326&postcount=1
Nothing way cool or exotic here. As new condition, and I thought a fair price.
I added a Stanley vise I've been storing for.... I don't know, maybe 15 years...
Now as I begin to learn how to use the machine, I'm learning I have some VERY dull drill bits (and some sharp ones).
Pictures:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1389326&postcount=1
magnusk750
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blazemaster83
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It came with a standard Jacobs no. 36 chuck on a #3MT. I have a #3-#4 adapter as well. Sometime I would like to grab a 20n in the future.
mrbreezeet1
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Evintho, I take it that is the power switch shown below?
Mine has a pull chain like on an old table lamp.
Thanks,
Tony
Mine has a pull chain like on an old table lamp.
Thanks,
Tony
Keep
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I have a couple. Here is my bench top Beaver:
It has been cleaned up a bit since then, but was put right to use.
Here is my Canadian Buffalo. This is my workhorse in the garage:
It has been cleaned up a bit since then, but was put right to use.
Here is my Canadian Buffalo. This is my workhorse in the garage:
evintho
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Evintho, I take it that is the power switch shown below?
Mine has a pull chain like on an old table lamp.
Thanks,
Tony
Yeah that's the power switch. It originally had an old thumb wheel switch built into the power cord. Both were toast! I put in a new power cord and grabbed the rocker switch from Grainger. Had to bore a hole in the side of the head unit to make it fit but now it's much safer and cleaner.
demographic
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Just got my newest drill in the shop this evening. In the first photo I have it hanging from slings to remove the shop brew coolant tray a previous owner put under the machine:
Here it is inside for the night. It will stay here for the near term, until I have a chance to pull the head, column and arm for overhaul. The little drill on the right is my first drill press, bought when I was 8 or 9 from the Cummins traveling tool show. Not a very good machine, but it served its purpose. I use it on occasion for coring holes in tile.
There was a Cincinnati Bickford in the engineering shop I worked in years ago, you should have a person in that photo to give it scale as the one where I worked at was HUGE, a seriously big bit of kit.
How much for one?
mrbreezeet1
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Yeah, That's a clean job. I just had thought it was factory.
Since it had a switch in the cord, now I'm wondering if the switch on mine was put in by a PO or if it came like that.
Maybe they didn't have switches in them from the factory?
Ocular Engineer, did yours have a switch and what type?
Thanks,
Tony
Stuart in MN
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They sold them with or without a motor. I suspect a lot of people bought them without, and then used a spare motor they had laying around the shop. My Craftsman has a switch in the cord, as far as I can tell it's always been that way but it doesn't have a factory motor either.
I've looked at the illustrations in the old Sears catalogs, and there's nothing to indicate one way or the other what they did for a switch.
toolsd
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Here's a few I've had, or have, or want...
This one weighed in at around 9K lbs, and cost around $30!
This one was given to me by a friend:
Here's another Powermatic:
Here's a 17" Rockwell I restored:
Here's the before pic of one of my most notable restorations. Looks and functions like new now.
Here's a horizontal drill press...
I've got one of these, it's my oldest power tool at about 106 yrs old. Hope to get it's little brother in the next couple years. I'm VERY patient about acquiring these things.
Here's another camelback. I use this one as is. Works really well. TONS of torque.
Here's a net pic of another drill press in the queue to be restored. It'll be the nicest drill press I own. It's variable speed between 50 and 3000, power down feed (not pictured here), 30", 2hp and just plain REALLY tricked out.
Got my eyes on one of these too. The seller hasn't realized yet how inexpensively he'll eventually sell it to me... It's outside, in the weather and will otherwise go to scrap for about $300... I'm a true philanthropist! Or would that be toolanthropist?
Despite all of these, this is the one I use the most. It was my first drill press, came from a relatively famous old Naval Aviator. It's a cheapie old Taiwanese drill that I can drill holes with blindfolded I've used it so much over the last 20 years.
Tools, a bit of a drill press freak.
This one weighed in at around 9K lbs, and cost around $30!
This one was given to me by a friend:
Here's another Powermatic:
Here's a 17" Rockwell I restored:
Here's the before pic of one of my most notable restorations. Looks and functions like new now.
Here's a horizontal drill press...
I've got one of these, it's my oldest power tool at about 106 yrs old. Hope to get it's little brother in the next couple years. I'm VERY patient about acquiring these things.
Here's another camelback. I use this one as is. Works really well. TONS of torque.
Here's a net pic of another drill press in the queue to be restored. It'll be the nicest drill press I own. It's variable speed between 50 and 3000, power down feed (not pictured here), 30", 2hp and just plain REALLY tricked out.
Got my eyes on one of these too. The seller hasn't realized yet how inexpensively he'll eventually sell it to me... It's outside, in the weather and will otherwise go to scrap for about $300... I'm a true philanthropist! Or would that be toolanthropist?
Despite all of these, this is the one I use the most. It was my first drill press, came from a relatively famous old Naval Aviator. It's a cheapie old Taiwanese drill that I can drill holes with blindfolded I've used it so much over the last 20 years.
Tools, a bit of a drill press freak.
evintho
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Here's the motor pre-resto. Obviously a GE. Was Sears a subsidiary of GE back in the day? This probably isn't a factory motor.
Garage5.9
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It looks like those old Craftsman drill presses are pretty popular. I found mine in a basement of an estate sale. He is named Leroy for obvious reasons. The only thing I have done is replace the belts and add the cross vise.
what year are these things from ? i have one at my grand fathers wood working shop and i know its atleast 50 years old if not older
Charles (in GA)
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Previous similar thread in the fall.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81230
Charles
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81230
Charles
Stuart in MN
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Sears sold the Craftsman 150 drill press from around 1950 to the late 1960s, as far as I can tell. There were minor changes over the years (different paint colors, etc.) but the basic machine was the same.
SweetD
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I know very little about this little drill press. It's a POWR-KRAFT sold by Montgomery-Ward. Looks like it's from the 1950s, but not sure.
It's cool because it's a a radial arm press, so it's quite versatile. Real nice Jacobs chuck too.
I also just got the vise, which is a vintage North Bros. Yankee #993 - excellent condition.
A few pics:
Blurry, but it's the placard:
I would appreciate any info on this if anyone knows anything. I'd love to restore it to what some of you other guys have done...
Dave
It's cool because it's a a radial arm press, so it's quite versatile. Real nice Jacobs chuck too.
I also just got the vise, which is a vintage North Bros. Yankee #993 - excellent condition.
A few pics:
Blurry, but it's the placard:
I would appreciate any info on this if anyone knows anything. I'd love to restore it to what some of you other guys have done...
Dave
Catalyze
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Incredible amount of effort given to these drill presses! Looking at all these photos is like going through a drill press museum. 2 slices of pie to those who brought them back from the dead!
Craig
Craig