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After months looking at drill presses i've decided to build my own from scratch, no sense paying couple hundred euros for a rusty piece of pipe and a head casting, all the quills are damaged beyond repair, i'm still looking and will be doing this build with parts i have laying around, i've started with making the inner shaft of the quill, started with and old mose MT5 to MT4 reduce, it was ding up on the outside but the inner taper is in perfect shape, this will allow me to use all my lathe chucks and taper drill bits, i chunk up the taper in my lathe and turn down and threaded M16, some of you can recognise
the sliding spindle as a steering wheel column shaft from a VW golf, i don't own a mill so i could not make this part on my own, that's why i'm making like this, welded the two parts together, i'll have couple more parts to make for this part and weld to it before i machine it all at once to insure the spindle will turn straight, this is not the only project i have in the works, ill try to update it daily hope you like it and follow it.