that's pretty cool. I like the Walker Turners I've seen. going to restore these 2 soon. a 15" Craftsman and a 14" South Bend.Your restoration thread for this drill press is what gave me that slight push that I needed to buy a vintage drill press.
Recently missed the opportunity of buying a floor stand version of my Walker-Turner due to the bad influence at home…. In the future, I will pay no attention to those voices…
Keep sharing!!
This is the model I'm working on now. I think it is referred to as a DP 5 or DP-500 head casting. Mine is a bench top with a very heavy production table as a base. Meaning it does not have a table attached to the column that can be positioned up or down the column. So, the head has to be moved on the column and has the lever to lock it in position. The problem is the head with motor is quite heavy and more than a pain to move up or down in use. I need to find a solution to this, besides just buying a table for the 2.75" column, reason being the production table/base is immaculate and should be a core part of the work space.