Odd milling (or drilling?) machine ID

v8bug · Nov 15, 2011

Found this advertised in an upcoming estate sale the next town over, I have no info other than the picture. Looks like a pretty heavy duty base for something small, is this just a xy table (with no t-slots?) with some kind of drilling head?

any info or knowledge would be great before I drive 100 miles to see it

thanks
Matt

Ferrous Antiquos · Nov 15, 2011

That vaguely resemble a Hamilton-type sensitive drill press, sitting on a steroid-fed X-Y table. It's like restraining a chihuahua with a battleship anchor.

L Vanice · Nov 15, 2011

I see a 1/8" Albrecht chuck on the drill. Maybe it was a home-built circuit board drilling machine.

Larry

Clive603 · Nov 15, 2011

Circuit board drilling or other ultra fast small drill duties is likely. Not necessarily home build either.

The manual, lab and prototype duties ones I was familiar with back in the 1970's were basically a hefty three phase motor with high step up belt drive on a quite chunky drill head. Typical Herbert / Pollard et al "serious machine tool firm" products. However we had a few high speed brush motors with integrated variac speed controllers, speed set by a knob on the end, and step up epicyclic gearbox on the end which looked very similar to that drive head. As I recall they would have been more than strong enough for drilling duties if mounted as shown although we had them for other duties.

Clive

v8bug · Nov 15, 2011

got a hold of the guy tonight, It is indeed a precision drilling machine, don't know the manufacture though.

thanks for the insight guys

-Matt

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