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Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - FINAL ASSEMBLY - skizzo - 08-22-2010
oakey said:
throw the delta away keep that W/T
That ain't gonna happen. While this dp is way nice, it doesn't win either the functionality or the stylin' battle in my shop. My 17" Delta has a morse taper shank that allows use of a mass of 64ths taper bits along with providing a lot more capacity, the 14" Delta is all tricked out for mortising with a footfeed and XY table, and the style winner of all is a 12" Toro w/ an XY vise, which is used for small work. 
photo courtesy of restorer and PO R. McGowen.
It's pretty tough for newcomers to crack the starting lineup, tho this one did make it through to the final cut.
Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - Outstando - 08-23-2010
Bill, in Japan, they honor people like you with the title of Living National Treasure. Thank you so much for all of the painstaking effort, not just in the restoration, of course, but especially in the work it took to share this in such incredible detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_National_Treasures_of_Japan
Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - DONE - Mr_Mike - 08-24-2010
Bill,
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. The drill press turned out well.
Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - DONE - skizzo - 05-31-2011
A bump for folks considering a different type of summer project.
Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - DONE - paulcomi - 04-03-2012
That is gorgeous
Re: Restoring an Old Drill Press - DONE - angelodp - 04-11-2012
Recently discovered this great thread, and the motor work. Terrific. Wish I had found it just a tad earlier as i am getting ready for a complete restoration of my Atlas 1938 DP. I did do some work on my Companion motor and now I know how to finish up.
Thanks for this great thread
Spindle cap - angelodp - 04-11-2012
Just wondering if that spindle cap needs a very very thin spacer/washer? or is it just a compression issue. Seems the later.
Re: Spindle cap - skizzo - 04-13-2012
Thanks folks. I hadn't even noticed that this thread came back up. Angelodp, good point about perhaps adding a small spacer washer under the spindle cap flange. It might have relieved the pressure on the bearing race, I don't really know.
Glad folks find this thread helpful.
Re: Spindle cap - bgeyer - 04-17-2012
I enjoyed the rebuild immensely!
I got to the end and thought, "I' spend $1200 for that" and was sad to see that it was sold.
thanks for taking the time to write the post.
Re: Spindle cap - skizzo - 04-17-2012
bgeyer said:
I got to the end and thought, "I' spend $1200 for that"
Oh? hmmm... we may need to figure out something. I'll pay the shipping.
Thanks for the thoughts.