- Location
- Richfield, UT.
Sorry it not 4x4 related but i wanted to do a thread on me "Refurbishing" this sweet 300$ barn find. I picked this thing up last summer but it was too tall to fit in my old shop so it has been stored at my friends shop until to day. I bought me my first house with a decent shop and have not had It wired up for some welding action yet so i find myself doing lots of small task lately.
I found this old Canedy-Otto drill press over in Wayne county from and old family friend. He said to have bought it off some old farmer that had it in his barn. Im a complete sucker for old Americana. Every thing about it worked fine and the old babbitt bearings seamed to be nice and tight. It Wasn't too rusty which leads me to believe it hasn't sat outside or been neglected too badly, it is just really oily and dirty with lots of layered chipped paint.
From what i have read i suspect this one to be a military surplus unit. This company was was dissolved in 1942 and revived during the WWII. The drill was originally painted an olive drab color and there are no raised cast letting on the drill indicating its mfg only a small brass tag. They did not cast the letting on the military drills because of the extra work. There also was another brass tag indicating it had a been sold thru a refurbishing company out of Las Angeles at some time.
It came with 4 large Morse tapered drills, 3/4" Jacobs chuck, a wedge to remove drills/chuck from the taper, belt dressing compound, a bunch of metal lacing and some kind of lacing die to butt up the Sweet leather belts that run this beast. Im told i can find new leather belts cheap at tractor supply stores since some balers still use them.
Its reversible and has 8 speeds and 3 Power feed speeds. Thats right i said Power feed
. I don't know what the RPMs are but it sure will turn Damn slow on the lowest speed and rip your arm off while doing it. Its about 6'8" tall and I wanna guess weighs about 900lbs. I picked it from my buddies house today with my boom on my crawler that some of you may have seen in other threads. That boom lifts a duelly 70 with drums pretty easy but it really strained with this drill.
Giant drills it came with. I hit them with a quick wire wheel and a squirt of WD-40. That gold bit on the right is a 1/2" drill.
Im planning on using electrolysis to remove the surface rust on majority of the parts.
17"x2.5" thick drill plate
Some of the power feed controls
I guess i was suppose to buy washing soda.:-\
After the first coat of paint stripper.
Goal
I found this old Canedy-Otto drill press over in Wayne county from and old family friend. He said to have bought it off some old farmer that had it in his barn. Im a complete sucker for old Americana. Every thing about it worked fine and the old babbitt bearings seamed to be nice and tight. It Wasn't too rusty which leads me to believe it hasn't sat outside or been neglected too badly, it is just really oily and dirty with lots of layered chipped paint.
From what i have read i suspect this one to be a military surplus unit. This company was was dissolved in 1942 and revived during the WWII. The drill was originally painted an olive drab color and there are no raised cast letting on the drill indicating its mfg only a small brass tag. They did not cast the letting on the military drills because of the extra work. There also was another brass tag indicating it had a been sold thru a refurbishing company out of Las Angeles at some time.
It came with 4 large Morse tapered drills, 3/4" Jacobs chuck, a wedge to remove drills/chuck from the taper, belt dressing compound, a bunch of metal lacing and some kind of lacing die to butt up the Sweet leather belts that run this beast. Im told i can find new leather belts cheap at tractor supply stores since some balers still use them.
Its reversible and has 8 speeds and 3 Power feed speeds. Thats right i said Power feed
. I don't know what the RPMs are but it sure will turn Damn slow on the lowest speed and rip your arm off while doing it. Its about 6'8" tall and I wanna guess weighs about 900lbs. I picked it from my buddies house today with my boom on my crawler that some of you may have seen in other threads. That boom lifts a duelly 70 with drums pretty easy but it really strained with this drill.Giant drills it came with. I hit them with a quick wire wheel and a squirt of WD-40. That gold bit on the right is a 1/2" drill.
Im planning on using electrolysis to remove the surface rust on majority of the parts.
17"x2.5" thick drill plate
Some of the power feed controls
I guess i was suppose to buy washing soda.:-\
After the first coat of paint stripper.
Goal
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