Wonder What I Can Come Up With For This One ??

[Waterlooboy2hp]

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I just came in from cleaning up the main frame, with a wire cone wheel, on my angle grinder. Not much rust involved really. Just the remnants of 3 coats of paint and most of that blew off with an air hose.

The soda can and the 18" ruler , will give you an idea of size. It has a taper on the spindle and I happed to have an old Almond brand chuck, that will fit. It opens up to .390 . Not quite 5/16", but better than a 1/4" chuck.
I have the motor that came with the drill press, It has the same 3 coats of paint on it as the D. press. There was a shaft out the back of the base, that must have had a small cast iron table, that slid in and out, to change the pulley position for each of the 3 speeds. At some point, the shaft was torched off. I surmise, that maybe the motor mounting table got busted, as one mounting ear on the motor is also gone.

Someone had remounted the motor on a homemade wooden box and sat it on the bench, behind the drill press as a quick fix. --- John

Here is photo of the main frame now, for an idea of the size.



This is where the motor would have mounted.



This is the motor, It is a 1/4hp Westinghouse. Dating the motor, may give me an idea of the age of the machine. Note the thumb nuts, for the 115v wiring. The tin cover is missing.

 

[cazclocker]

Thanks for the photo. Man, 26# of weight for a 1/4hp was the way somebody used to make things....let me think a minute....oh yeah, I think it was a place called the United States of America. I heard they used to take pride in their manufacturing output.... or something...
...Doug

 

[Waterlooboy2hp]

That's beautiful! The green paint really sets it off. Very nice!
...Doug in Arizona

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Given a chance, I`ll paint almost anything Hunter Green. Anyway, I had to repost some of the before photos, as they were lost during the site update last week. The whole sequence is al out of order now, but I guess it is better than no photos at all.
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I had to come up with a spindle pulley belt guard, when the cast iron one from another drill press, proved to be way to large. This is what I came up with. It all worked fine, until I learned to late, that a Urethane belt does not act like a regular V-belt. They tend to stretch and pull tight on one side of a pulley and bow out on the other side, when strain is put on them from drill bit pressure. The belt then rubs against the guard. The fix that, I added a spring loaded idler pulley, that is mounted on ball bearings. You can see it in the 2ed photo.



The adjustable stop for the drill depth is simple and neat. It just clamps on the shaft for the handle.



I needed a cover for the connections on the motor. As section out of the bottom of a 1 gallon tin can did the trick. I silver soldered a back plate to it, that I made from thicker material. Notches in the back plate, slip behind 2 of the bolts on the motor end cover. The brass screw in the center, is just a terminal for the ground wires underneath.




To give the machine a touch od attitude, I used an old Cutler-Hammer motor controller switch.



Overall, it came out pretty nice. --- John

 

[cazclocker]

Nicely done, waterloo. I agree about Hunter Green - something about that color just looks terrific on old tools!
...Doug