Anyone recognize this?

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

Small drill press.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Flymo

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

Ha ha, nice one Jason.

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

There's no id on the castings but the gears are well made, the motor looks to be french. I picked it up for £28 at a local auction, I think I can add tapping to it without too much effort.

Edited By Rockingdodge on 26/03/2019 20:04:07

[Andrew EvansParticipant @andrewevans67134]

It's similar to something I picked up. Mine is more like a larger version of the GH Thomas sensitive drill.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Nice reduction gearing

Sorry, I don't recognise the machine.

MichaelG.

[Jeff DaymanParticipant @jeffdayman43397]

I was going to say "table saw" (grey thingy at left) but Jason beat me to it with the Flymo wit.

I wouldn't add too much tapping to it – you'll spoil the paint and chips will fill the tappings!

Seriously, though – you may need to change pulleys and belt to toothed synchronous type, from the round urethane orange one, for tapping anything bigger than about M4. Not a big deal to change it over though, if need be. Try it and see – with the high reduction the round orange belt may be fine.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Rockingdodge, it could be someone has modified the drive to an old belt driven drill press. The castings are not that dissimilar to my Bonds Maximus drill press.

Regards Nick.

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I built one of these forty years ago from a set of castings that were advertised as for a "sensitive drill". The foundry was somewhere in Lincolnshire.

Rik

[Roger ClarkParticipant @rogerclark]

Posted by Jeff Dayman on 26/03/2019 23:33:49:

I was going to say "table saw" (grey thingy at left) but Jason beat me to it with the Flymo wit.

I wouldn't add too much tapping to it – you'll spoil the paint and chips will fill the tappings!

Seriously, though – you may need to change pulleys and belt to toothed synchronous type, from the round urethane orange one, for tapping anything bigger than about M4. Not a big deal to change it over though, if need be. Try it and see – with the high reduction the round orange belt may be fine.

Hi Jeff, I did mean manual tapping, i don't think the motor would have enough torque and there would be little control.

The drive shaft is held by a nut on the top and my thoughts were to make an extended nut and make a handle similar to the G H Thomas Universal Pillar Tool, and by releasing the balance weight I would have a super dooper tapping machine.

Roger

Oh, and I don't eat chips in the workshop 

Edited By Rockingdodge on 27/03/2019 10:13:19

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