Manual Drill Press

[mozer71]

It is market fluctuation like you said. The reasons are dreary- Dear old timers have passed away in droves. The population continues to expand and eventually anyone with a whit of historical reverence wants to have something speaking of earlier times.
This isn't to mock or never use it. If the grid goes down long enough or just know how it operates, it tells stories.

[lyle11]

I think I’ll keep it. This is not something that I ever saw used. I suspect my father bought it later in life just to hang on the wall. Looks like I have to clean up the threads these two holes in the “chuck”.

Was the bit secured with 2 pointed set screws? (The hole doesn’t appear to be threaded all the way through)

And the bit had a flat side on the shank?

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[mozer71]

That looks about right for drill bits of that shank dia. People put actual chucks on them, along the way. Yours and one of mine probably had a set of bits which fit. Instead of socket head set screws they used small square headed bolts. If the inside thread wasn't tapped through, the bolts were turned at the ends presenting a flat surface to the shank and still passing through the "chuck".
There is a certain chuck which was made for our low speed drilling/ boring. It isn't a 3-jaw, 2-jaw tapered Irwin type. It is made to clamp regular straight shank drill bits. It isn't a lathe chuck either because it isn't balanced right. It is a two jaw with Vee shaped jaws which adjust by one square head bolt ( rht one side lht other)

[lyle11]

Thanks for all the good information Mozer.

[SONNY]

My Dad had one exactly like that. --He rigged a 1/4 horse motor to it. I think its still in the shed here under other stuff. When we moved I never got much set up again. Now use a 16-speed floor cheapie that dose my needs.

[mozer71]

People we don't know, have lacked the observation of old iron machinery. Tractor folks know all about it. Time racing so quickly another generation is interested to get hold of a piece which works or doesn't. It just isn't made that way and a true time capsule.