928gene928
Cast Iron
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- Joliet, Illinois
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Antique Drill Press on CL
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L Vanice
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2006
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
That picture was good for a laugh. Old wall-mounted drill with a 3-jaw lathe chuck holding a big end mill and a Chinese cross slide vise bolted to the table.
Larry
Larry
SouthBendModel34
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2004
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
MDShunk:
At first, I thought it was just a strange sort of "post drill". Then, after reading your post, it now appears to be a kludge of a post drill plus a gooseneck (?would we call one this small a "camelback"?) bench drill. It looks like a lathe chuck and a (gasp!) X-Y positioning attachment. Considering that the motor is grafted onto a hand cranked post drill, this might just "take the cake" for kludginess !!!
Ingenious? Yes. Rattletrap? DEFINITLEY!
John Ruth
At first, I thought it was just a strange sort of "post drill". Then, after reading your post, it now appears to be a kludge of a post drill plus a gooseneck (?would we call one this small a "camelback"?) bench drill. It looks like a lathe chuck and a (gasp!) X-Y positioning attachment. Considering that the motor is grafted onto a hand cranked post drill, this might just "take the cake" for kludginess !!!
Ingenious? Yes. Rattletrap? DEFINITLEY!
John Ruth
fciron
Stainless
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2009
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
Ooh, it has the square profile flywheel on the far side, so they power was an option.
grannyknot
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2015
I'd buy that for $100
Andy FitzGibbon
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2005
- Location
- Elkins WV
No bench drill involved- just a post drill with a lathe chuck and Chinese cross slide mounted.
Andy
Andy
DeSelle
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 23, 2006
- Location
- Midlothian, TX
This might be one of the most scandalous machines I have ever seen
magneticanomaly
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Location
- On Elk Mountain, West Virginia, USA
Neolithic jig bore. Worth the price to be repurposed yet again.
SouthBendModel34
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2004
- Location
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
AndyFitzgibbon:
I stand corrected! That curved casting below the lower quill bearing is indeed part of the Silver Mfg. Advance No. 12 Drill:
Photo Index - Silver Manufacturing Co. - Advance No.12 post drill | VintageMachinery.org
Ficron:
There might have been a version with fast & loose pulleys for lineshaft drive:
Photo Index - Silver Manufacturing Co. - Advance no12 | VintageMachinery.org
I'd thought this was a real lash-up of two separate old machines....now I'm seeing that the round shaft that the table mount rides on fits into a socket on the bottom of the curved portion of the main casting.
It's looking more valuable, in the sense that an intact antique post drill is more desirable than some frankendrill.
John Ruth
I stand corrected! That curved casting below the lower quill bearing is indeed part of the Silver Mfg. Advance No. 12 Drill:
Photo Index - Silver Manufacturing Co. - Advance No.12 post drill | VintageMachinery.org
Ficron:
There might have been a version with fast & loose pulleys for lineshaft drive:
Photo Index - Silver Manufacturing Co. - Advance no12 | VintageMachinery.org
I'd thought this was a real lash-up of two separate old machines....now I'm seeing that the round shaft that the table mount rides on fits into a socket on the bottom of the curved portion of the main casting.
It's looking more valuable, in the sense that an intact antique post drill is more desirable than some frankendrill.
John Ruth
wlpier
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2004
- Location
- Boiling Springs, PA
Reminds me..... years ago I saw a local auction listing for a Champion Blower and Forge Milling Machine. Say what? That got the old curiosity up. I knew they made lathes, but milling machines? So it was a house auction and I wandered around the pre-auction inspection until I saw the unmistakable cast iron casting of the CB&F post drill harp. I just stood there shaking my head and chuckling. If I remember right it was a little more creative than what's pictured here. So I informed the auctioneer that CB&F never made a milling machine and that the contraption in the basement was a homebrew. I never did stick around to see how it was sold or what it fetched.
