Thread: Hand drill press

Oooooooh........chance of penetrating wound to hand and concussion. Buy it!

I do have a blacksmiths drill press (stored at the moment, will come out to play later) and they are interesting to use but mine is the American (I think) style. Nowhere near as impressive as that unit.

Clearly a tool from before the days of OHS.

My brotherinlaw has a manual dill press....not a lot like that, but definitly hand crank.

I used it a couple of time when I was a young bloke.....surprisingly effictive...but still hard work.

this one did not have the head knockers, but the crank wheel was pretty heavy, there was also an automatic quill advance that pushed the down hand wheel 1 tooth every revolution.

The interesting thing on this machine was that it had a pully cut on the outside of the crank wheel for a "V" belt.

They are interesting devices & I'd use one if there was nothing else.....but I'll stay with my modern drill press thanks

Some deranged nostalgic will probably pay hundreds of money for that one.

cheers

Originally Posted by Berlin

Hi all, I found this manual drill press in the market. I would have loved an excuse to buy it but it's not suitable for a nomad...
Any body use one?
Regards from Strasbourg

It's got balls ...

You sure get around Matt!

Cheers,
Paul

Originally Posted by soundman

Some deranged nostalgic will probably pay hundreds of money for that one.

cheers

Yeah I was happy to just see it in the wild. Those weights on top wouldn't just concuss they'd send part of your skull across the room!

...plenty of torque though.

Originally Posted by pmcgee

It's got balls ...

You sure get around Matt!

Cheers,
Paul

Yep, still on the run

Matt

Originally Posted by Berlin

...but it's not suitable for a nomad...

It's perfect for a nomad. You can clamp it to any passing bench, tabletop, etc. Drill holes in all the furniture, and move on.

Unlike a post drill that has to be permanently mounted to a post .

Hey Seanz, I didn't know you had a post drill. What make and model? Mine's a Dawn No.611 - almost complete (thanks to some help from boringgeoff), but the post I was going to attach it to isn't suitable, so it's in storage until I work out some rearrangement of my shed.

Cheers, Vann.

So the faster you crank the wider the balls swing (no Paul) and more downward force on the bit. I reckon you'd be in a lather by the time you had driven a 1" bit through an inch of steel. And you'd have to concentrate on keeping your head synchronised with the whirling balls at the same time, a bit like the old machine gun on a biplane shooting through the propellor trick.
Yep, sure would like that drill in my shed.

Geoff.

I don't think you'd be pushing a 1 inch bt thru anything with that machine....look at the size and proportion and I recon 1/2 inch would well and truly pull it up.

More like, it has a 3/8 chuck, and would be best drilling well below that capacity.

As far as working up a lather and dodging the balls......remember blacksmiths of the age where solidly built and swung big hammers all day.

Besides..what are apprentices for

cheers

Originally Posted by Vann

It's perfect for a nomad. You can clamp it to any passing bench, tabletop, etc. Drill holes in all the furniture, and move on.

Unlike a post drill that has to be permanently mounted to a post .

Hey Seanz, I didn't know you had a post drill. What make and model? Mine's a Dawn No.611 - almost complete (thanks to some help from boringgeoff), but the post I was going to attach it to isn't suitable, so it's in storage until I work out some rearrangement of my shed.

Cheers, Vann.

Oh, hi Vann, I just got back from the Post Office.......

My post drill is a 'Silver' from Salem Ohio.
Silver Manufacturing Co. - History | VintageMachinery.org

Originally Posted by seanz

Oh, hi Vann, I just got back from the Post Office.......

My post drill is a 'Silver' from Salem Ohio.
Silver Manufacturing Co. - History | VintageMachinery.org

There was a Silver brand bandsaw in the for sale section not that long ago. I hadn't heard of it before.
Paul