swatkins
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2011
- Location
- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
Drove over to Jasper Texas today to pick up a 26" W.F. Barnes Co.Camelback drill press.. I think its a W.F. but didn't have time to move the strap and make sure... Found it on Craig's list and made the 7 hour round trip to pick it up...
I've looked around and found a history on the assorted Barnes companies but found little that had any pictures or information on this drill press..
Someone has crafted a "form fitting" 3/4" thick metal plate to hold an electric motor but that is long gone. So far I need a motor , drive belt from the motor to the lower cone and a small drive belt for the feed system. I removed parts of the feed system to protect it from damage while we hoisted it into the pickup but it looks to be all there and in decent shape. The base was coated in oil so I ran it through a carwash on the way home.
The only damage to the casting I could find was on the main column. You can see where someone welded up the casting with very nice welds.. In one of the pictures it looks like there is a crack above the welded area but I didn't see any cracking there when we loaded it...
Anyone have an idea for the size of electric motor needed to make this machine usefull again?
I've looked around and found a history on the assorted Barnes companies but found little that had any pictures or information on this drill press..
Someone has crafted a "form fitting" 3/4" thick metal plate to hold an electric motor but that is long gone. So far I need a motor , drive belt from the motor to the lower cone and a small drive belt for the feed system. I removed parts of the feed system to protect it from damage while we hoisted it into the pickup but it looks to be all there and in decent shape. The base was coated in oil so I ran it through a carwash on the way home.
The only damage to the casting I could find was on the main column. You can see where someone welded up the casting with very nice welds.. In one of the pictures it looks like there is a crack above the welded area but I didn't see any cracking there when we loaded it...
Anyone have an idea for the size of electric motor needed to make this machine usefull again?