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Ixion Bench Drill - Restoration
Here is a new project of mine. I have picked up this hand cranked bench drill made by Ixion, Germany. I liked it and thought would be great to bring it back to being useful.
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Unfortunately I have not found much about it on the net. When opening it up I was hoping that the grease inside would have preserved it better, but that was not the case.
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and it took me 3 days to take it apart to where I am today.
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Still trying to get the support pole off and the part which supports the flywheel also seems to come further apart. There is a spring and some washers inside so I think it might be able to come apart to get to the inside, but not sure.
A few odd thing about this, which make me certain that the one who violated and abused it before did not really know what he was doing or had even less info as me and forgot how it got back together.
First the chuck is in really bad condition and I am not sure if I can reuse it again. It is weird that not only that the springs inside are missing, but that 5 chuck jaws came out, where I am certain only 3 should be.
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Only 3 of them had the holes for the springs and that 3 already make a perfect cone together. I do not know how the other 2 pieces would fit in. Or can anyone explain that to me?
Further, I think the cog on the main shaft was sitting not on the right position I believe. I only found one picture of very similar drill on the net and it shows the cog at the bottom of the shaft and not the middle. And in this case the shear pin was missing, which led to the groove in the cog and the shaft was misaligned and it took me quite some force to get it out. (the picture on the right is the one from the net - Woodlooking: Hand cranked drill press)
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That blog entry is also the only info I found on how that entire thing is working. The shear pin which couple the cog to the center shaft is missing. I have to make a new one. I know that sometimes they are purposefully made of a softer metal, so I am thinking of making a brass one.
Sadly I had to further violate some parts. But now I have it apart I can fix the damages again I believe and get it back together.
However I was wondering if anyone has exactly an Ixion bench drill and could post a picture of the inside to see if I am right. Otherwise it'll be trial and error by myself ;)
A few minor parts are missing and the base. Luckily it is German made so all threads are metric, which makes it easier to find or come up with replacements and as for the base I am thinking of making one of hardwood.