Author Topic: Homemade drill Press (Read 3406 times)

Snowtoy · « **on:** Jan 29, 2015, 05:14:22 PM »

Thought some of you here would like to see what my great grandfather built before you could easily buy what you needed in a store.

toyodaaddict · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 05:29:32 PM »

very nice! Are you planning on putting it to work?

Stocker · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 07:04:30 PM »

Gotta admire the creativity of people. If you need it and can't buy it.... build it!!

abnormaltoy · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 10:06:31 PM »

Depending on his location, I'd say that was what made America great...inventiveness, Yankee Ingenuity.

Snowtoy · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 10:21:34 PM »

Quote from: toyodaaddict on Jan 29, 2015, 05:29:32 PM

very nice! Are you planning on putting it to work?

No plans at the moment to use it, everything on the press still functions, the electric motor is likely too old to use. My immediate plans are to clean off the dust and build a stand for it, maybe turn it into a piece of "shop art".

Snowtoy · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 10:32:54 PM »

Quote from: Stocker on Jan 29, 2015, 07:04:30 PM

Gotta admire the creativity of people. If you need it and can't buy it.... build it!!

Yep, unfortunately so much of those types of problem solving skills/creativity that was needed 100yrs ago just to be a functioning adult has gone the way of the dodo for most in western societies.

kneedownnate · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 11:45:24 PM »

People have been taught to point the finger and blame something for not working rather than looking for a solution. Doesn't help that everything is so over-regulated that the safety police seem to follow you everywhere you go.

Snowtoy · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 29, 2015, 11:45:47 PM »

Quote from: abnormaltoy on Jan 29, 2015, 10:06:31 PM

Depending on his location, I'd say that was what made America great...inventiveness, Yankee Ingenuity.

Definitely Yankee ingenuity, he was born and raised on a farm south of the S.F. Bay area in the 1870-80's. Given his and my great grandmothers income level, I would guess that the stuff he made either didn't exist at the time, or wasn't available. Given how everything was rationed during WWII, he could have put the press together then.

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