Air ratchet drawbar

[sundown57]

Well just tell the wife your going to install an island in the kitchen. You can hide the hole there, now you have lots of room

I'm thinking if I cut a hole in her floor an island is probably the only place I would be safe. as long as it's uncharted.

 

[Aaron_W]

ill ask my wife. its the center of our kitchen floor. She really doesn't use it all that much anyway. ok to tell her it was your idea?

Same problem I had except I would have had to cut a hole in the kitchen floor to fit the whole head through, you just need to make a little hole.

You do point out an advantage to low ceilings though, I can reach the top of every machine and top shelf in my shop. Changing light bulbs is easy too. I never need a step stool in my shop.

 

[pontiac428]

Why not take the whole assembly, flip it over, and offset it to the side of the head. Connect the drawbar to the impact with a toothed belt. Mount a plate on the top of the mill, and use the same plate to mount the air impact, socket side up. To decouple the system, I'd use a sprag with a spring that disengages, controlled by a lever. Same mechanism in the vertical version, just inverted and offset for ceiling clearance.