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Offline John Hill

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Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« on: September 19, 2009, 09:02:51 PM »
I went down to the shop today to buy a new vee belt for my circa 1990 Chinese drill press,  although it is just the small bench top 13mm job it has met all my drilling needs for the last almost 20 years.

After buying the belt I looked in at another store and saw this:



You have to understand that things are usually expensive in NZ, due to many factors including small population,  GST (i.e. VAT), freight etc etc, so I was mildly suprised to see this little press which appears identical to my own for sale for the princely sum of NZ$30!  Thats about US$18 or I suppose 9 quid,  so I bought one, now I have a little drill press in each workshop. :med:

Oh, the belt alone for the old drill cost NZ$22! :coffee:
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 11:07:14 PM »
i have a small drill press just like the one in your picture and when i needed a belt i just bought a new drill press.

the belt was $20.00 and the new drill press was $25.00................so i have turned the old drill press into a tapping stand.

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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2009, 11:20:28 PM »
i'm turning my old pillar drills in to polishers :D

at that price, you can't go wrong :thumbup:
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2009, 02:10:32 AM »
Thats given me an idea I wonder if I could use the motor on my dads old drill press to power the tool post grinder I'm building HMMMMMM I'll check it out
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2009, 02:32:34 AM »
Stew, somewhere on the web is someone who has mounted one of these Chinese drill presses on his cross slide.  It could be an interesting idea but I am not sure the bearings would be up to the task.
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2009, 02:37:55 AM »
John

I was thinking of using it to power the sub spindle I'm making.

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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2009, 04:00:15 AM »
Stew, he mounted the entire head on the cross slide so it became his auxiliary spindle.  Certainly the 'ten quid drill press'  includes a lot of useful bits,  motor, step pulleys etc.

This is my 'secondary spindle',  it is useful but not perfect the main issue being rigidity, I am making an improved version but it will still only be a drill mounted on the compound.
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2009, 04:33:25 AM »
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somewhere on the web is someone who has mounted one of these Chinese drill presses on his cross slide
Stew
http://home.iprimus.com.au/stevor/Lathe.htm
Its mounted on an Advance lathe, I had an Advance (first lathe) so tried the idea. not really a success,
Rigidity was the problem there just was'nt enough meat in the column.
Those el cheapo drill presses do make good tapping machines, toss the motor use a windscreen wiper motor
with belt drive direct to spindle dispense with the sliding plate thingy and just use the base plate.
The sliding plate with a modicum of work ie two little tabs for alignment to cross slide make a reasonable angle plate
holding work piece or vice for milling.
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2009, 02:17:18 PM »
Thats not the one I was thinking of BR,  he used just the head and motor.  It was mounted with the motor at the top and the spindle was at the same level and could be turned parallel or in-line with the main spindle.
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2009, 04:38:24 PM »
Here is what I used to use on my old lathe setup.

It consisted of a home made drilling spindle being belt driven from a 24 volt precision Swiss DC motor. Power came from a 12 volt battery charger, and it was designed and made to do just one job, but it did such a good job, it was kept on as one of my can't live without tools.

You have to imagine a small 1/4" thick plate screwed to the bottom of the spindle and clamped into the toolpost. This would easily drill from zero up to 1/4" diameter, and was used before I had a rotary table. I indexed off the bull gear on the lathe, which I think had 60 holes spaced around it's front edge, and a scribed PCD circle on the piece for front drilling or just a setup mark for edge drilling. This kept me going for a few years, and only took a few hours to make with bits from the junk box. It still runs perfectly today.



For little jobs, you don't always need big beefy bits. Anything will do to get you out of a sticky situation.


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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2009, 05:06:11 PM »
Thats quite neat John and I like the low voltage motor. 

Whenever I put any mains operated thing (like my drill) near the lathe I have visions of something going wrong, the cord getting tangled and the whole lot glowing live! :zap:
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« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2009, 07:06:23 PM »
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Thats not the one I was thinking of BR
John
Can you remember the web address for that one sounds interesting.
BR
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Re: Expensive frivolity? Drill press.
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2009, 07:38:55 PM »
Quote from: Baldrocker on September 20, 2009, 07:06:23 PM
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Thats not the one I was thinking of BR
John
Can you remember the web address for that one sounds interesting.
BR

Haha, I am trying to remember but  I am lucky to remember to get out of bed in the mornings! :lol:

I have been searching for that site for a couple of days now, it must be out there somewhere!
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