doonjumper
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Interesting
http://fresno.craigslist.org/tls/3363269663.html
http://fresno.craigslist.org/tls/3363269663.html
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Gang drill press setup
- Thread starter doonjumper
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That one looks kind of cheesy. I bought a nice Powermatic gangdrill years ago from a machine shop I worked at. I scrapped all the drill heads as they were 3 phase and not very good drill heads. But the cast iron table is $1600 bucks alone current new price. I paid $75 bucks for it. The table is 24" X 5' 6", has a coolent traugh around the table and it precision blanchard ground. It weighs between 600 and 700 lbs. It a bitch to move. Here is a pic of it. Mine had four drill heads. On one end I drilled 1/2-13 threaded holes for fixturing. Going to do the entire table but had to return the mag drill back to work before I could finish the drilling & tapping.
doonjumper
1/2 ton status
I think you should post that to the classified section. It's taking up too much room 
It's a 1969 model gangdrill table. A good year 
. Same age as my woman.
. Same age as my woman.
just so happens i have a 2 gang drill press i could get and do that to for a sweet work bench and fluid drain table. 
just so happens i have a 2 gang drill press i could get and do that to for a sweet work bench and fluid drain table.
Or you could let a guy know where these are....
doonjumper
1/2 ton status
Another http://sacramento.craigslist.org/bfs/3327643293.htmlOr you could let a guy know where these are....
I love stuff like this. Old machine shop equipment, precision tables, whatever. All my cabinets have came from shops I've worked at. I always ask "What are you going to do with that old cabinet?" and I always get this stuff for free or dirt cheap. My welding table top came from the same shop I got my gangdrill table from. There was a 4' X 4' 1/2 piece of steel behind the gangdrill and I asked my boss what it was for. He said thats been behind that old gangdrill for 20 years. It's not flight certed material. Then he said why do you want it?, I of course said YES! he said take it, so I did. Made a great welding table out of it.
I have never paid full price for anything I have ever bought weather it be equipment or tool storage wise or storage cabinets, even new stuff. My three Snap On boxes new regular price would cost over $20k, I paid about half that through unexpected deals that fell into my lap, and could not pass up. The shear in the picture is a $7200 shear. I bought it brand new from Rutland Tool & Supply and paid less then half for it. It was $3541 out the door. My 20" disc grinder was on sale for about $400 off. Now that same disc grinder is about $1000 more then what I paid for mine at the time. I love free stuff and deals
and steel .
I have never paid full price for anything I have ever bought weather it be equipment or tool storage wise or storage cabinets, even new stuff. My three Snap On boxes new regular price would cost over $20k, I paid about half that through unexpected deals that fell into my lap, and could not pass up. The shear in the picture is a $7200 shear. I bought it brand new from Rutland Tool & Supply and paid less then half for it. It was $3541 out the door. My 20" disc grinder was on sale for about $400 off. Now that same disc grinder is about $1000 more then what I paid for mine at the time. I love free stuff and deals
and steel .
K5 Jess
1/2 ton status
^^^^^^Well, if you run across more of those deals, take those too! i know you dont have room for them so Ill come get whatever it is!
We have a little 4 drill gang drill setup at work we use mostly for tapping holes. Doesn't look like it in this old pic (only one I could find) but we use them all the time!
In fact I used the center two (the ones we use the most) just today to drill and tap 32 1/4-20 holes into the face of some bushings I was making. Sure speeds things up.
In fact I used the center two (the ones we use the most) just today to drill and tap 32 1/4-20 holes into the face of some bushings I was making. Sure speeds things up.
We have a little 4 drill gang drill setup at work we use mostly for tapping holes. Doesn't look like it in this old pic (only one I could find) but we use them all the time!
In fact I used the center two (the ones we use the most) just today to drill and tap 32 1/4-20 holes into the face of some bushings I was making. Sure speeds things up.
Those are Morse taper spindles. Mine had one Morse taper spindle and three quill type spindles like a mill has. I did rebuild two drill heads and used them for a while but the RPM range was WAY to high for anything over a 3/8 drill. Those drill heads would turn like 6500 rpm! slowest was around 1200rpm. Thats a good old machine right there.
I'm convinced all machines that are old are good.
Here's our old Giddings and Lewis horizontal mill. We do a lot of line boring work and made up some bars with the taper machined onto one end and some brass bushings we can swap out for the support on the left in this picture. We broached a bunch of square holes through them and tapped them for set screws so you can use 5/16", 3/8" and 1/2" square-carbide tipped or high speed steel tools in them. This machine has been around probably longer than most of us and just keeps chugging along. It gets used on a daily basis.
You want to talk about a machine that's all about feel... this is it.
Yep, thats old school quality. Heavy duty overkill built to last. I still wish I never sold the 1946 Logan lathe I had for a while. It was light duty compared to what I'm used to but it did the job for what it was capable of. It was perfect for a garage. I made money with it and when I sold it though. Someday I'll have another lathe, and hopefull a mill too. I have no room now anyways. Actually I want a small cnc toolroom mill & lathe. You can make money with those where as conventional is more difficult to make money with, not that it can't be done but still production is all about parts quantity. And the fact conventional has limitations.
