Drill press or mill recomendation.

Oh yeah it had one issue. A broken table crank. A 5 minute phone call and $18 solved that problem. Sears has some great customer service.
 
Albrecht makes one of the nicest keyless chucks. Should be able to find one for a couple hundred.
 
coldblooded357 said:
Ok so ended up walking into a local pawn shop and finding a used craftsman 17 inch 1.5hp, 16 speed press for $225. Ended up paying $175 when all was said and done. It may not be the end all be all of drill presses but it will do the job and was so cheap I couldnt resist. Now I have some extra cash :) anyone know a good keyless chuck?
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Well Its been awhile since I purchased a Craftsman tool, Call and check it out. They may still have there return policy that as long as you don't modify it? They will replace it if it breaks.

Most of there stuff is so poorly made now, I won't buy it anymore. The last time I walked into their tool dept. I asked the young lady about a small drill press they had advertised, she didn't know how to look it up in the catalog they had at the counter. I had to show her how to find in the index.

No more Crapsman for me. It does sound like you did fine on your drill press.

Good luck with it.

Laurence
 
Yeah this one is an older one. And seems to be built like a tank. But either way for $175 it'll do for now. :) now I gotta decide on a vise.
 
The cm drill press should work out good. That is the most common casting in that size press. Sould have parts available for decades. What's the runout like?
 
I'll check it with a dial indicator tomorrow. I need to buy one. But I did drill a bunch of holes in the shop and it seemed okay. Hopefully it is.
 
coldblooded357 said:
I'll check it with a dial indicator tomorrow. I need to buy one. But I did drill a bunch of holes in the shop and it seemed okay. Hopefully it is.
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There is a screw that has a nut on the left of the front side. This can be tightened to take up some slop in the spindle if needed.
 
I looked up the albrecht chucks. They do look nice. I need to figure out exactly how to tell which one fits. Since this is a used model I only know it's a 5/8 chuck. But I also need to know the taper right?
 
coldblooded357 said:
I looked up the albrecht chucks. They do look nice. I need to figure out exactly how to tell which one fits. Since this is a used model I only know it's a 5/8 chuck. But I also need to know the taper right?
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There is a chance that the drill chuck taper is on the drill chuck

Letters like JT6, JT3, JT33 will give you that taper

but


Try this

[video=youtube;rJ3jyEbcse4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3jyEbcse4[/video]

If you can do that

Then you can start with a fresh arbour arbor

The drill press side will be a Morse 2
MT2


Then when you buy the chuck, you can match the chuck & arbour at the same time.

They are $6 or so.
 
coldblooded357 said:
I looked up the albrecht chucks. They do look nice. I need to figure out exactly how to tell which one fits. Since this is a used model I only know it's a 5/8 chuck. But I also need to know the taper right?
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An albrecht chuck on that drill is going to cost a bunch. Get a Jacobs super chuck. Check eBay since you are ok with buying used. I would just use what you have first and see really how bad it is. You can measure the runout of the spindle then the chuck. The chuck arcan always be rotated in 45 degree increments to try to cancel out some of the runout. For what you intend to do with the drill press I think that you would likely have a very useable setup without changing anything. Get a mag base and DTI and learn to measure runout and see how good you can get it. I would have recommended getting both PRIOR to buying the drill press but hopefully you don't have a piece of garbage. Good luck.
 
I can remove the chuck like that then actually remove the post from the chuck. I was able to download the manual but it doesn't say anything other then 5/8 and a part number.
 
coldblooded357 said:
I can remove the chuck like that then actually remove the post from the chuck. I was able to download the manual but it doesn't say anything other then 5/8 and a part number.
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See if you can figure it out from this chart.

That's why I recommended buying a new arbour with the chuck, no guessing and it's nice to know the new arbour should be straight and ttrue.



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Cool thanks, I'll check it tomorrow. I was in the girlfriends vw bug today so I'm picking it up tomorrow.
 
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