rusty old tools
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2010
- Location
- Pomona CA USA
Picked this up over the weekend from another member here, initially I thought that it would be a quick and easy fix up and put in to service, the table didn't have any holes that I spotted, but I got a little supprise when I got it home, this drill had seen the most extreme arc of shame and the table had been once broken in two! Then someone came in with nickel rod and attempted a repair only to fail and go back to good ol brazing rod, the results are pictured. The table is no longer flat, and the repair is quite ugly, so now I'm looking in to options, I do not own a welder of any sort nor do I have experience, and I'd rather not have braze on this bare metal surface. Right now I'm considering grinding out all the nickel and braze and finding a good shop that can weld it up with cast iron filler, I can then grind it true, another option would be to have another casting made, which I could machine and grind. Everything else should be repairable with relative ease, a new cord on the motor and the spindle needs rebuilt, there doesn't seem to have been a switch mounted anywhere that I can find so I'll need to add one somehow, maybe mounted to the bench, I know a few of you have these drills, what do you have for a switch on yours? Other than the aforementioned issues the drill is complete and I'm quite happy to have acquired it, it will make a nice companion for my little canedy Otto that I've got on my bench currently.