Shop made, homemade drill press.

[GoceKU]

I would love to know what comes next before you attempt, maybe we could offer some alternative solutions. Best of luck

I appreciate any suggestion, so next i want to start on the base for the drill press, to mount the pipe then move back to the quill so the work won't be monotonous, for the base i plan to use this 100 x 60 x 8 mm pipe is extremely heavy and should not flex, i plan to put thick gussets, in the last three photos i've mock it up with papir the in the front i plan to put that aluminium pedal for emergency brake, i'll install a switch that will cut power to the motor and a motorcycle brake cylinder and a disk brake on the last pulley, now the question is where do i place the pipe, all the way back, in the middle or in front of the base pipes?

 

[GoceKU]

This morning i had couple of hours free so i started on the base, took me close to an hour to make couple of cuts with my 4" grinder on this thick tubing, then i chamfer the edges and welded them at 45 degrees, after that i need to figure out something about the gear racks i need a long one for the work table, and a smaller one for the quill, and after calling all the gear and bearing dealers i know, i know i'm on my own to make one, unfortunately i do not own a mill or a shaper, so i turn to cars, i dig out couple of old flywheels and remove the starter rings, did little straightening on the bench vice, then i took them to my destroyed shop press i got them semi straight they would take couple of hours more to get them truly straight but i run out of time, this is fairly cheap way to have gear racks.

 

[Mark_f]

I find this project amazing. It is amazing what this craftsman is doing with so little and repurposing materials. It makes me very thankful to live in a country where so much is available to us so easily. I wonder how many of us would have the fortitude to scavenge and go through the trouble to repurpose materials that sone of these guys in other countries must do because nothing is readily available.
I find GoceKU an amazing and talented craftsman.

 

[Hellkell]

VERY creative!

 

[Hellkell]

I would have thought the ring gear would have cracked. Did you have to heat it up to soften it first?

 

[GoceKU]

Thank you Mark, i don't want people to think we don't have steel available, some stuff may be harder to find, i do like a good challenge and some things are me challenging myself.

 

[GoceKU]

I would have thought the ring gear would have cracked. Did you have to heat it up to soften it first?

Some are harder than others, no one crack till now, no heating slowly on the press.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i spent a lot of time in the big garage looking for gears, strengthening the gear rack for the quill, then i went to the machine shop and continued machining the quill pipe, first i installed and set up the study rest, and cut the first bearing seat and retainer grove the i install the bearing to help the pipe from collapsing in the chuck and flip the pipe around, then cut the outside to meat the rest of the OD than i measure and set the distances between the bearings cut the second seat and retaining grove, then i scraped two lines to help me position the gear rack, more to come.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i did little of both machining and welding, you've may seen this piece in previous photos, yesterday i welded little on it, it has a big enough lip to register, but i wanted to add little more to be sure it registers flat to the flywheel, the flywheel is from an peugeot 405 an i've chosen it because is the flattest one i've got, removed the starter ring and welded the shaft to it on both sides also welded the bolt holes as well i plan to use this piece as a rotating work table on the drill press, i need to remove about 10 mm of the face to make it flat and the shaft is over sized so i can cut it down to size and make it run thru with the face, then i place and welded the gear rack to the quill, both pieces were clean so it welded much better, than i began working on the base, first clean up the welds from yesterday and welded the two legs together at the back then from the front, then i cut and weld a piece of flat bar in the front, i'll have a pedal there, also i welded up the fronts of the tubes, i'm thinking should i fill those tubes with sand or concrete to add weight for stability ?

 

[GoceKU]

Today i started machining the modifying the flywheel in to a work table, started by changing the chuck jaws for the outside ones, because the shaft is old it already had centered hole but because i weld it, it wasn't centered, so i redrilled it with a big centre drill, then i setup the live center to make the setup riget the shaft wasn't too much out of round, i took it easy, 80 rpm and took 0,5 mm cuts, because the keyway didn't want to grab the insert and make a mess, i need to take couple more cuts but wanted to check how parallel is the flywheel running and it clean up with only few tens cut, i run out of time for today, i will continue tomorrow.