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As bench mount drill press arrangements go, this one (or other similar models) are certainly somewhere in the lower-middle class as to overall robustness.
If you google the term "sensitive drill press", you'll get all kinds of hits usually describing machines like this from around the WW2 era. It seems that term might be more properly reserved for the more obviously designed units that would be used repeatedly to drill accurate holes of small diameters. Those machines would therefore typically exhibit a very small stroke depth (top or side lever vs. rotating twist mechanism) and transfer the power via a drive that generates fast spindle RPM's. Yours is a hybrid, taking those principles and trying to be more mass market oriented.
Today, they are more of a novelty item then a seriously useful addition to most workshops IMO. The overall difficulty determining the actual manufacturer doesn't help either.
Admire the practicality exhibited by your uncle in "modding" it long ago and try to find a place where it can keep on servicing it's owner for years to come.
If you google the term "sensitive drill press", you'll get all kinds of hits usually describing machines like this from around the WW2 era. It seems that term might be more properly reserved for the more obviously designed units that would be used repeatedly to drill accurate holes of small diameters. Those machines would therefore typically exhibit a very small stroke depth (top or side lever vs. rotating twist mechanism) and transfer the power via a drive that generates fast spindle RPM's. Yours is a hybrid, taking those principles and trying to be more mass market oriented.
Today, they are more of a novelty item then a seriously useful addition to most workshops IMO. The overall difficulty determining the actual manufacturer doesn't help either.
Admire the practicality exhibited by your uncle in "modding" it long ago and try to find a place where it can keep on servicing it's owner for years to come.
