Old Speedway Mill.

[WalterC]

Welcome to the forum WalterC!

For the others... GA knows WalterC from another forum, suggested this forum from a conversation about machines on the other forum.

Glad you made it over... browse around and make yourself at home!

GA

Thanks GA. I have spent a lot of time reading and listening. It is a fascinating subject.

 

[bearbon]

I have the same drill press made in Taiwan and I've been very happy with it. Very smooth running and tight. However, I was under the impression that you couldn't mill with a morse taper type quill without some kind of drawbar to hold it in the quill. I didn't see anyone mention this. Wouldn't the side load of milling dislodge the MT shank?

 

[P T Schram]

To answer Bourbon, if one has the tapered collets that mate to the machine and the appropriate drawbar, yes, you can mill with that machine-no, you can't mill with a "Jacobs" style chuck.

The local Harbor-Freight-esque store had one in a corner on the floor with a bunch of missing parts. Just as the old boy that owned the store was nearing selling it to me for $250 (it was marked $800 or some such) he died from brain cancer.

Homier used to be based out of a town about an hour from here and they had many of those in all sizes, etc. Yeah, I lusted after one.

I think it would make a fantastic fairly precise drill press and if one was realistic in their expectations, it would make a fine milling machine.

Be careful though. It wasn't that long ago I got my first piece of machinery and now I'm in a position where a friend visited Sunday evening and asked me in which direction was I going to expand my shop-LOL! I had to turn down a piece of machinery due to space considerations

 

[WalterC]

I have the same drill press made in Taiwan and I've been very happy with it. Very smooth running and tight. However, I was under the impression that you couldn't mill with a morse taper type quill without some kind of drawbar to hold it in the quill. I didn't see anyone mention this. Wouldn't the side load of milling dislodge the MT shank?

There is a draw bar on this one. In fact, I had to make another one (3/8- 16) since the collets I ordered come with that size. The original is metric.

Not being able to find the length I needed, I had to make one.

 

[joesmith]

Homer sold two sizes of the drill mill. The larger one appeared to be similar to HF and others except that it took Morse 3 collets.

The smaller one was in the 250# range. I looked at one at the San Antonio show and thought it too small for my needs.

whichever you made a good buy. If it weighs over 500# you made a great buy.

 

[P T Schram]

If it makes chips, it's a good buy!

 

[kglesq]

For $100 that's a steal. Gulf Oil colors were an excellent choice for the repaint .

 

[Dragonheart]

I recently acquired the same Drill/Mill so you information that it has a 2MT is a help. I had one broken plastic wheel handle, I found metal M10-25 replacements on Ebay for under $8 shipped.

 

[USNFC]

I thought of the Gulf Oil colors when I saw it too! I was thinking of a different car type though! Great find, can't beat that for the price.

 

[WalterC]

The mill had a habit of loose bolts at the column base. Deforming the bolts with a hammer in the right place and re-installing them fixed it for me. A primitive but effective fix.
I don't use it much for a drill press, so I am only using one of the handles that doesn't get in the way when cutting certain depths.

My old shop was drab enough and when painting the lathe, I had enough paint left over to do the same to it. For some reason though, it is hard to match the grey color for aesthetics.

Before and after;