jskeen
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Found this old monstrosity literally sitting out by a barn down the road at a garage sale. Quill turned but the pinion was locked up tight so I took a chance for 10 bucks. Farmer even helped me load it in the van!
Did a little web digging and this looks to have been made somewhere in the early 60's and specs say it has over 4 inches of travel. So, it should be good for something.
Anyway a good nights soak with wd 40 and a little disassembly got everything free and working pretty well, and the 1/2 horse dayton motor actually turned out to work fine with a total rewire. Now I just gotta make it pretty.
Only real problem is that some Einstein lost the table at some point. Anybody got a spare 2.5 inch DP table or collar laying around? If not I guess I could just fabricate one out of wood at some point. Might be an interesting project. How would one make a custom penmakers DP table? (short of mounting a PH vise on it
Did a little web digging and this looks to have been made somewhere in the early 60's and specs say it has over 4 inches of travel. So, it should be good for something.
Anyway a good nights soak with wd 40 and a little disassembly got everything free and working pretty well, and the 1/2 horse dayton motor actually turned out to work fine with a total rewire. Now I just gotta make it pretty.
Only real problem is that some Einstein lost the table at some point. Anybody got a spare 2.5 inch DP table or collar laying around? If not I guess I could just fabricate one out of wood at some point. Might be an interesting project. How would one make a custom penmakers DP table? (short of mounting a PH vise on it