Drilling with the Carlton

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collector

Hot Rolled

Joined

Nov 1, 2007

Location

Parksville BC Canada

• May 1, 2018

• #1

Hi Guys
Had to drill 30 1 7/8 holes in these flanges and was so impressed with this 78 year old machine. Here’s a couple pictures texts book perfect drilling.

 

Richard King

Diamond

Joined

Jul 12, 2005

Location

Cottage Grove, MN 55016

• May 1, 2018

• #2

Wait until you tap with it, now that's a real treat and thrill ! :-)

 

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Tyrone Shoelaces

Diamond

Joined

Apr 19, 2006

Location

Manchester, England

• May 2, 2018

• #3

Nice spiralling chips coming off there. Have you got a drill grinder or did you sharpen the drill free hand ?

Regards Tyrone.

 

Steve in SoCal

Titanium

Joined

Oct 17, 2006

Location

Woodland Hills, Ca. and some times Hutchinson, Ks.

• May 2, 2018

• #4

Makin some boiler plates.

The radial is a satisfying machine to run.

Steve

 

wheels17

Stainless

Joined

May 10, 2012

Location

Pittsford, NY

• May 2, 2018

• #5

Just the kind of work for which it was designed! It's great when you have the "tool for the job".

 

norb

Cast Iron

Joined

Sep 24, 2009

Location

tonawanda new york

• May 2, 2018

• #6

collector said:

Hi Guys
Had to drill 30 1 7/8 holes in these flanges and was so impressed with this 78 year old machine. Here’s a couple pictures texts book perfect drilling. View attachment 227405View attachment 227406View attachment 227407

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Those Carltons were well engineered. Had them at several shops I worked in over the years. They never broke,never had any issues and were smooth as silk. Like Rich said, they were a dream boat for tapping.

 

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BrianB

Hot Rolled

Joined

Aug 24, 2006

Location

Shelbyville, Ky

• May 3, 2018

• #7

I like my 7ft arm Carlton, it does a good job and is smooth and easy to operate.

 

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collector

Hot Rolled

Joined

Nov 1, 2007

Location

Parksville BC Canada

• May 7, 2018

• #8

Hi guys
Yes I have a Rush 3 inch drill grinder. It was scrap and seized when I got it took a week to clean it up it was used with coolent and never cleaned. I got new parts and manual and DVD from Rush. It only takes a few minutes to grind a drill I grind mine to 135 deg so they dig in fast and not jump around.

 

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Tyrone Shoelaces

Diamond

Joined

Apr 19, 2006

Location

Manchester, England

• May 8, 2018

• #9

collector said:

Hi guys
Yes I have a Rush 3 inch drill grinder. It was scrap and seized when I got it took a week to clean it up it was used with coolent and never cleaned. I got new parts and manual and DVD from Rush. It only takes a few minutes to grind a drill I grind mine to 135 deg so they dig in fast and not jump around.

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I always thought a drill grinder was a good investment for a shop with radial arm drills. I worked a few over the years and they could grind a 2" drill better and a whole lot faster than I ever could by hand. " Herbert Hunt " made good drill grinders, they were later taken over by the " Churchill " that didn't make the surface, roll, cylindrical grinders.

The DG 100 was their best. It'd grind up to 4" dia, 3 and 4 flute core drills, flat bottom, fish tails, point thinning, you name it.

Regards Tyrone.