swatkins
Titanium
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- Jul 24, 2011
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- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
I just hate the internet.... So many things to cram into my shop... Does it ever end 
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What say you? Should I save it?
- Thread starter swatkins
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rj1939
Stainless
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2008
- Location
- southern il
One guy, just can't save it all. Having said that, I have practically buried myself in iron. I just don't want to be the one to send it to china.
4GSR
Diamond
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- Jan 25, 2005
- Location
- Victoria, Texas, USA
Put it out front and hang your mail box on it. Or populate it with bee hives.
moonlight machine
Diamond
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2007
- Location
- marysville ohio
Scrap it and all those carbon steel drills on the wall as well.
swatkins
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2011
- Location
- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
I know it's not practical, dangerous and OSHA has banned them forever... BUT it's really a piece of history and to me a work of art...
I'm at the point in my life where it does not have to make me money anymore and I can take the time to play with things like this...
I wonder how the first owner felt when it was delivered over a 100 years ago... To him it must have looked like the Space Shuttle
swatkins
Titanium
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2011
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- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
Put it out front and hang your mail box on it. Or populate it with bee hives.
It's in better shape than the one in the shop now
Phil in Montana
Stainless
- Joined
- Jul 31, 2007
- Location
- Missoula Mt
I am saving one from the Milwaukee RR ( that I bought from them in 1974) you should save yours too...Phil
I just hate the internet.... So many things to cram into my shop... Does it ever end
It's obvious, You don't drill enough holes!
Limy Sami
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2007
- Location
- Norfolk, UK
Is it the sort of thing the Amish would ''re-power'' ?
jringo8769
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2019
SAVE IT
That was a easy question
Love it
Stay safe out there
God Bless,John
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That was a easy question
Love it
Stay safe out there
God Bless,John
Sent from my SM-S727VL using Tapatalk
Yup, they would hang a Harbor Freight 11 hp Chonda back there (electric start you know....)
mjr6550
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2012
- Location
- Lansdale, PA
I know it's not practical, dangerous and OSHA has banned them forever... BUT it's really a piece of history and to me a work of art...
I'm at the point in my life where it does not have to make me money anymore and I can take the time to play with things like this...
I wonder how the first owner felt when it was delivered over a 100 years ago... To him it must have looked like the Space Shuttle
Old cast iron is a work of art to me also. I would save that in a heart beat, even though I have no where to put it and have two drill presses already.
Remove the rust and it would look brand new.
Riderusty
Hot Rolled
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- Jan 19, 2002
- Location
- Sea Cliff, NY & Portland, OR USA
Of course you should save it, Steve. You've answered your own question--persue the things you like. Now get your rigging gear together and do what's right.
Tom B.
Tom B.
Dave Vincent
Cast Iron
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- Nov 4, 2006
- Location
- Rochester, New York
I think you should save it especially if is better than the one you have and if you have the room for it.
Dave
Dave
Phil in Montana
Stainless
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- Jul 31, 2007
- Location
- Missoula Mt
You have Any other tool in your shop that will last 100 years?? I didn't think so...Phil
4GSR
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2005
- Location
- Victoria, Texas, USA
It's in better shape than the one in the shop now
Steve,
When I posted my comment, I didn't realize you were talking about another one. I thought it was about the one you already have. Sorry, Ken
Blazemaster
Hot Rolled
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- Oct 13, 2009
- Location
- Olympia, Wa
Cool old drill, I have one just like it in my shop. Has the table casting been brazed or is it just crusty? Around here those kind of machines pop up quite often, and I might look for one that hasn't been so abused. That being said it prob still drills holes just fine.
And, those "nasty carbon steel drills" have worked with that drill and thousands like it for a hundred years. Why are they suddenly all bad?
Mostly because some folks don't know how to use them, and have been trained to automatically consider "carbon steel" to be unusable junk, despite the last 200 years of productive use.
Besides, half of them are probably HSS, maybe more.
Mostly because some folks don't know how to use them, and have been trained to automatically consider "carbon steel" to be unusable junk, despite the last 200 years of productive use.
Besides, half of them are probably HSS, maybe more.
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swatkins
Titanium
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- Jul 24, 2011
- Location
- Navasota / Whitehall Texas
I will go pick up the drill on Sunday
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that I will probably have to rob the base off the one I have and adapt it to the new one.. Hopefully the column is the same size and it will bolt right up but I can always make an adaptor ring if needed..
Then there is the problem of the table... I just know they have destroyed the original if it was bad enough to weld a plate to cover it up.... Might find a lathe face plate close to that size, I did just buy a 17" one off of Ebay but that is for another cool project..
Here is a short clip of the one in the shop now and the damage that has been done to it's table...
The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that I will probably have to rob the base off the one I have and adapt it to the new one.. Hopefully the column is the same size and it will bolt right up but I can always make an adaptor ring if needed..
Then there is the problem of the table... I just know they have destroyed the original if it was bad enough to weld a plate to cover it up.... Might find a lathe face plate close to that size, I did just buy a 17" one off of Ebay but that is for another cool project..
Here is a short clip of the one in the shop now and the damage that has been done to it's table...
