So...I rescued this Voest radial drill today from a storage unit that had been abandoned with various machine tools in it.
It has issues....the main motor (probably) gave out and it looks like somone used that as an excuse to steal the table from under it.
It's similar to my Oerlikon UB2 but one size bigger in most ways. It has an MT4 taper spindle and 5 power downfeeds. It also has a column-mounted motor that performs the raise/lower function.
You can see in the background a tool grinder...I didn't pay much attention to it other than it was German/Swiss/Austrian. But I think it would go cheap.
My question is...how desired are these drills? I don't see myself fixing it as I have no use for it that my UB2 won't meet. Who has run one of these drills? Any opinions or experiences? More than likely it's headed for the Machinery for Sale section...
It has issues....the main motor (probably) gave out and it looks like somone used that as an excuse to steal the table from under it.
It's similar to my Oerlikon UB2 but one size bigger in most ways. It has an MT4 taper spindle and 5 power downfeeds. It also has a column-mounted motor that performs the raise/lower function.
You can see in the background a tool grinder...I didn't pay much attention to it other than it was German/Swiss/Austrian. But I think it would go cheap.
My question is...how desired are these drills? I don't see myself fixing it as I have no use for it that my UB2 won't meet. Who has run one of these drills? Any opinions or experiences? More than likely it's headed for the Machinery for Sale section...