Shucks, I can hide my own Easter eggs.

 

I'm still looking for the ones I hid last year.

I'm still looking for the ones I hid last year.

Look in your gate latch Larry!

At my age I have to keep everything in it's place or I'd never find it.  Shucks, I can hide my own Easter eggs.

Sure you can hide your eggs Ron, but can you find them!

I too have that great Delta-Rockwell drill press---in fact I have two of them. Luckily mine have a key holder as part or the main casting right close to the retracted quill. Very handy and safe----with that experience if I had a unit without such an option I would epoxy a nut to the casting for the purpose of holding the chuck key. I did modify one of the machines using a treadmill motor and reostadt  and with infinite speed control it has become my favorite shop machine.

13 minutes ago, Marv Rall said:

I would epoxy a nut to the casting for the purpose of holding the chuck key

I like that idea!

Mine is on a rare earth magnet epoxied to the case.

Does no one share my oddities, with me? Is there not a compassionate soul out there who can let me know that I am ok? Can anyone relate? Oh woes me! Oh woes me!

I can feel your pain, but here is a question for all of you => When you are looking for something and then tell someone that it was in the last place you looked, did you keep looking after you found what you were looking for?

 

That is a pet peeve of mine. I mean really, of course you found it in the last place you looked. 99% stop looking once they find what they were looking for. 

2 minutes ago, Chips N Dust said:

I can feel your pain, but here is a question for all of you => When you are looking for something and then tell someone that it was in the last place you looked, did you keep looking after you found what you were looking for?

 

That is a pet peeve of mine. I mean really, of course you found it in the last place you looked. 99% stop looking once they find what they were looking for. 

Feel your pain right back at ya!

you are doing fine John even if your case study gets underway...

I like these for chuck key keepers...

mount it to the DP and when you let go of the key it retarcts home...

 

My 12 drill presses have key chains on most of them...

1 hour ago, Kevin Beitz said:

My 12 drill presses have key chains on most of them...

...Cheaper by the dozen? 

Just got lucky over the years. I do factory cleanouts.

1 hour ago, Kevin Beitz said:

cleanouts

Well if you have an extra I can always make some room. I only have 2. 

2 hours ago, Kevin Beitz said:

Just got lucky over the years. I do factory cleanouts.

In one way cool, in another way kind of depressing thinking of more manufacturing jobs gone.

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

In one way cool, in another way kind of depressing thinking of more manufacturing jobs gone.

In my line most of them was tixtile...

I'm still in awe about @John Morris s chuck key door latch. 

20 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

I'm still in awe about @John Morris s chuck key door latch. 

Drill press is gone since I got my beloved Shopsmith, but the chuck key is still there, forgot to give it to the buyer of the DP, he took off with the DP and I tried to call later but no luck, so my Rockwell chuck key still resides in my gate latch to this day.

Couldn't be so lucky to have it fit the SS chuck?

38 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Couldn't be so lucky to have it fit the SS chuck?

Haven't tried yet, but I will today!