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Drill press, time to replace?
Wichman3 posted a topic in Machinery, Tools, Research, Reviews and Safety
So my old drill press is having issues; high pitch bearing whine at top speed (which I use a lot for drilling scrollsaw fretwork patterns), 40+ years old off brand (bought used 40 years ago), chuck just failed, one tooth lower than the other two, can't center a bit. don't know if I can get the morse taper out now (had to use loctite, lowest strength, to get the chuck to stay in the machine) at the time, 30 years ago, I was using a drum sander in the press and any side pressure would make the chuck fall out. loctite fixed it and it has not been removed since. So fix or replace? Brand recommendations for a chuck would be nice. This is not a production machine just general usage and holes for fretwork. If I replace it I want a press that has the same type of table that I currently have, i.e. round table with a round mount/clamp. Tractor Supply has a low end model for $269. All the higher end models I've seen have the square/cantilevered tables, don't really want that style. Thoughts?- 14 replies
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This is my wife's favorite cooking pot. It has got to be 75+ years old. She got it from her aunt many years ago. The handle has rotted away and she wants it replaced. Not a big deal, however I have some thoughts about the wood and type finish I should use. I should use hardwood for sure, I am concerned about the finish. Maybe an oil? varnish? What would you use around heat and food?
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All the way from Maryland, mind you. Not counting S&H, it was just under a 10spot..Not only was there a bit of rust....someone had given it a Coppertone Finish.. Hmmm...yeah. Them handles were a plastic of some sort. Kind of purple on the inside. Lever cap is a coppertone paint. Sole looked just as...messy Lovely? Welll, now. I suppose I could wander down and see if the rehab center is open today..... Ok: Flattened the sole. iron needed it's back flattened as well. Tuned the chipbreaker. Those handles? Traded them out for some wood ones. The Yorkie Dunlap now has the plastic handles. Iron was reground to 25degrees or so...then hand sharpened through 2.5K grit. After that is, I had straightened the edge. Had the infamous reverse camber. The corners stuck out more than the center. I removed what coppertone paint that I could. What should have been black is now black. lever cap polished up. Bolts cleaned up. face of the frog was sanded flatter. Underside of lever cap WAS a rough casting...not anymore. gave this THING a test run on some wide pine... Not too bad. Note the "new" handles? Frog did have a frog adjust bolt. Wheel is plated steel. A few more looks.. Front porch looking better? Not too bad looking? It did make a nice wispy pile of wide shavings, too... Seems to be a Stanley type 20 No.4 smooth plane. Might be right before the Maroon painted ones showed up. Still has the Stanley lateral lever. Might be a keeper?
