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all those old Craftsman drills of that type I see on Marketplace, and there are a lot of them, the base is painted.
 
yota said:
all those old Craftsman drills of that type I see on Marketplace, and there are a lot of them, the base is painted.
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I still find that strange. Still, to every manufacturer their own choice.

I still find the base a good mounting option for odd, otherwise awkward jobs.
 
GrifterGuru said:
I still find that strange. Still, to every manufacturer their own choice.

I still find the base a good mounting option for odd, otherwise awkward jobs.
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in this country, I believe the vast majority of drill presses made were floor models. with a bench model, I can see where the base would be used quite a bit as a table, and I think if I were restoring a bench model, I would leave the flat area unpainted and just paste wax it, like I do with the tables. I have never had occasion to mount work to the base of any floor model I've had, although most if not all have had slots for doing so.
 
yota said:
in this country, I believe the vast majority of drill presses made were floor models. with a bench model, I can see where the base would be used quite a bit as a table, and I think if I were restoring a bench model, I would leave the flat area unpainted and just paste wax it, like I do with the tables. I have never had occasion to mount work to the base of any floor model I've had, although most if not all have had slots for doing so.
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To be fair, I have seen supports mounted between the base and underside of the drilling table on a floor standing drill press. Mind, that was to help take the weight of some heavy castings as "safety measure" against the table slipping due to the friction only clamping style and was in an industrial shop.

I would imagine a fixed support would also maintain the table in a fixed vertical and lateral position for repeatability within a certain envolope if a specific setup was used on the table for repeating the same job over and over.
 
GrifterGuru said:
That is wierd. Every bench mount Drill Press / Pillar drill (uk term) I have seen or used has had an unpainted base that can be used as an additional mounting surface. Not like it needs to be perfectly flat either if you are mounting a vice to it.

Why else would they machine it the same way as the table with the slots and central hole. Heck, I have even used the base for a few setups on a a number of bench mounted drill presses over the years when needing to drill into a long piece of stock or an awkwardly long/awkwardly shaped part. I simply swung the table round out the way and got on with the work.
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If I tried that with the HF floor standing unit I returned, the column would have flexed about 1/2" out of square trying to drill anything large since the column was all of .060" thick.
 
455dan said:
If I tried that with the HF floor standing unit I returned, the column would have flexed about 1/2" out of square trying to drill anything large since the column was all of .060" thick.
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.060"?? that is pretty darn thin for a support pillar. Heck, my Clarke Drill press had a 0.1968 (5mm) wall and that was only a bench mount drill press! Damned heavy thing too!

Ended up giving that DP to a friend because I was "upgrading". 4 years later, I still have not purchased any form of replacement for it!
 
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