camoz
17th January 2016, 05:56 PM
Hi all,
I'm not sure if it's just me who does this (so excuse my strangeness if it is), but if I am going somewhere I wouldn't normally go (and taking the ute), I will do a bit of a search first (for sale sites), to perhaps stop in and break up the trip.
Doing a radius search last night (had a trip today), I found for sale "Home & Garden" in the "Home & Garden" category. It was a drill press (pretty sure no one was going to find this searching for drill press http://d1r5wj36adg1sk.cloudfront.net/images/smilies/standard/rolleyes.gif), but what caught my eye was it had a keyless chuck (this is something I can use). I arranged to meet him, but in the end, the only certainty was the chuck, there was too many unknowns (the guy did not have 3 phase power to test the machine). If I was going to buy it, I wanted to take the keyless chuck and then flip the drill press again without doing any restorations. I was going to walk away, but in the end, he really just wanted it gone, so we made a deal. I think if I didn't take it, it was going to get scrapped.
Here are a few pictures (really bad pictures, I will get some more soon).
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%202_zpsbscbkz8p.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%202_zpsbscbkz8p.jpg.html)
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%201_zpscjnwyxyr.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%201_zpscjnwyxyr.jpg.html)
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%203_zpsqtcayhtf.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%203_zpsqtcayhtf.jpg.html)
It is a Progress No.2G, not a drill press I am familiar with, and it looks to have a gear lever for 2 speeds giving a range from 47RPM to 2480RPM.
It's English made, and seems to be well built, not sure if the 2 speed gearbox is going to be a good thing or it's Achilles heal.
Has anyone used one of these, seen one, have an opinion on the brand, or any history of the company. The lowest drill speed I have at the moment is 150RPM, so if it's a quality drill press, and a viable restore, I will keep it and put the effort into restoring it.
Like I said, at this stage I have no idea on condition, but a promising sign is the fact that the table does not seem to have any drill holes in it.
Cheers,
Camo
I'm not sure if it's just me who does this (so excuse my strangeness if it is), but if I am going somewhere I wouldn't normally go (and taking the ute), I will do a bit of a search first (for sale sites), to perhaps stop in and break up the trip.
Doing a radius search last night (had a trip today), I found for sale "Home & Garden" in the "Home & Garden" category. It was a drill press (pretty sure no one was going to find this searching for drill press http://d1r5wj36adg1sk.cloudfront.net/images/smilies/standard/rolleyes.gif), but what caught my eye was it had a keyless chuck (this is something I can use). I arranged to meet him, but in the end, the only certainty was the chuck, there was too many unknowns (the guy did not have 3 phase power to test the machine). If I was going to buy it, I wanted to take the keyless chuck and then flip the drill press again without doing any restorations. I was going to walk away, but in the end, he really just wanted it gone, so we made a deal. I think if I didn't take it, it was going to get scrapped.
Here are a few pictures (really bad pictures, I will get some more soon).
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%202_zpsbscbkz8p.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%202_zpsbscbkz8p.jpg.html)
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%201_zpscjnwyxyr.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%201_zpscjnwyxyr.jpg.html)
http://i1365.photobucket.com/albums/r754/woodworkforum/photo%203_zpsqtcayhtf.jpg (http://s1365.photobucket.com/user/woodworkforum/media/photo%203_zpsqtcayhtf.jpg.html)
It is a Progress No.2G, not a drill press I am familiar with, and it looks to have a gear lever for 2 speeds giving a range from 47RPM to 2480RPM.
It's English made, and seems to be well built, not sure if the 2 speed gearbox is going to be a good thing or it's Achilles heal.
Has anyone used one of these, seen one, have an opinion on the brand, or any history of the company. The lowest drill speed I have at the moment is 150RPM, so if it's a quality drill press, and a viable restore, I will keep it and put the effort into restoring it.
Like I said, at this stage I have no idea on condition, but a promising sign is the fact that the table does not seem to have any drill holes in it.
Cheers,
Camo