Olivetti T6 Drill Machine

That's what I need. From what I see I am OK. Now, the top spindle bearing on mine has a threaded hole in the center. It's open, is yours the same or is there a plug of some kind? Sorry to put you thru this but so far you are all I have to check things. Hopefully we will have the info we need soon.


"Billy G"


It's not a problem at all. I'm at work right now but when I get home tonight I'll find out and give you an update. It's gonna be about 9 tonight before I get out there.

I'm interested in seeing what you do to yours. I'm pretty tired of kicking mine and would like to get it up an a bench but I've got too many irons in the fire at the moment. I'll be watching with interest.

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This is interesting for a little history assuming it's the same guy. (from http://www.olivetti.nu/camillo.htm)

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Camillo Olivetti was born in Ivrea in August, 1868. He attended the Politecnico di Torino, where he studied under Galileo Ferraris.
An eclectic and original personality, after graduating in engineering Olivetti spent some time in London, where he gained experience as a factory worker. He joined the socialist party and developed a keen interest in federalism, local autonomy and democratic institutional reform.


In 1893, he accompanied Galileo Ferraris to the electricity congress in Chicago. He attended courses in physics at Stanford University and became professor's assistant in electrical engineering. On his return to Ivrea, he established the C.G.S. (centimetro, grammo, secondo) company, a manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, which subsequently moved to Milan.


Olivetti returned to Ivrea in 1907, where, on 29 October 1908, he established the "Ing. C. Olivetti e C." company to manufacture typewriters, which were built entirely in Italy. Production was handled by a group of twenty people trained by Camillo Olivetti himself at courses held in his house, the "Convento", located near the factory.


During the First World War, the Olivetti company largely converted to war production: artillery fuses and magnetoelectric aircraft equipment. Typewriter production resumed with the M20 model. In 1922, Camillo Olivetti set up the foundry and in 1926 the OMO company (Officina Meccanica Olivetti) for the production of machine tools, designed by Olivetti himself. The first product, a "sensitive drill", was followed by milling machines, grinders and other special equipment for the production of typewriter parts.


Together with his son Adriano, who had returned from a period of study in the USA, Olivetti reorganised the factory's production operations and strengthened the sales network with the formation of branches and subsidiaries in and outside Italy. In 1929, the Olivetti company opened its first overseas subsidiary, in Barcelona, Spain. The success of its growth strategy enabled it to resist the Depression that followed the 1929 crisis without resorting to job cuts.


During the 1930s, Camillo Olivetti gradually gave Adriano greater managerial responsibility, but continued to be a major figure in the company's intensive design and production work, with projects for new typewriters, the first office furniture - the Synthesis range - the first teleprinters and the first adding machines.


In 1938 Camillo Olivetti resigned as company chairman in favour of his son Adriano, but continued to follow production, sales and administration, paying particular attention to improvements in employee social services. He retained direct responsibility for the management of the machine tool facility.


During the Second World War, Olivetti wrote and published a clandestine pamphlet proposing radical social, financial and industrial reforms. After the armistice on 8 September 1943, he was forced to leave Ivrea and go into hiding in the Biella area.

He died in Biella hospital in December 1943.
 
Thank you. So far mine is exactly the same. That threaded open hole bothers me. We will have to wait for word from Jerry on this one.

"Billy G"
 
The Hands of Time site may also be a dead end. I tried the phone number for Jerry Kenny and it is not in service. The wait is on for the email reply.

"Billy G"
 
Bill is it possible that threaded hole is just for inserting a bolt to extract the shaft/bearing/quill whatever that is retained by the circlip?

Cheers Phil
 
Anything is possible at this point Phil. I will keep that in mind if I have to rebuild it blind. Thank-you.

"Billy G"
 
Email sent, thanks for the info.

"Billy G"
 
I looked at the site again and it looks like they're right around the corner from you. Maybe show up with a 6-pack if you find out they have a manual. :lmao:
 
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