The company I work for has 'down-sized' and is moving one of it's small UK factories. Because I worked at that factory for over ten years, they let me have first dibs in saving stuff from the skip !!
I grabbed a bunch of old test equipment, an 8 inch bench grinder and this beast of a drill press !! I believe it's around 50 years old and runs like a dream.
It has a great quill travel of 115mm ( or 4.5 inches in old money ) and has an amazing speed range of 80 to 4000 revs !!!
Unfortunately it has a 3 phase motor that I will swap for single phase.
You can see in the pics that it dwarfs my mill and I swear is much heavier than my 10x21 ML !! My six foot six son and I had to split it from the base and we still struggled to move it!!
It's a W J Meddings Pacera, made in UK. The company is still going and amazingly say they still have many spares for these old machines.
I grabbed a bunch of old test equipment, an 8 inch bench grinder and this beast of a drill press !! I believe it's around 50 years old and runs like a dream.
It has a great quill travel of 115mm ( or 4.5 inches in old money ) and has an amazing speed range of 80 to 4000 revs !!!
Unfortunately it has a 3 phase motor that I will swap for single phase.
You can see in the pics that it dwarfs my mill and I swear is much heavier than my 10x21 ML !! My six foot six son and I had to split it from the base and we still struggled to move it!!
It's a W J Meddings Pacera, made in UK. The company is still going and amazingly say they still have many spares for these old machines.
