Quote from: 50ft-trad on September 24, 2018, 06:43:06 PMJust dragged this monstrosity out of the shed. I'm putting together a "hobby desk", and figured it might be useful.A neighbour gave it to me before he moved away, and it had been stood idle for a few years before that, so it does need a little bit of cleaning up. The foot, table, and column are quite rusty, but a little wire wool and a spot of oil should tidy it up a bit. The drive and bearings seem fine, though I don't know how much life the v belt has in it. I'll probably need to take the chuck off and inspect that too, as it's sticking a bit. Probably nothing a wire brush and dab of grease can't fix.Ohhh, how nice! Don’t forget pics of this little hobby desk, wonder where you got that idea JR
Just dragged this monstrosity out of the shed. I'm putting together a "hobby desk", and figured it might be useful.A neighbour gave it to me before he moved away, and it had been stood idle for a few years before that, so it does need a little bit of cleaning up. The foot, table, and column are quite rusty, but a little wire wool and a spot of oil should tidy it up a bit. The drive and bearings seem fine, though I don't know how much life the v belt has in it. I'll probably need to take the chuck off and inspect that too, as it's sticking a bit. Probably nothing a wire brush and dab of grease can't fix.
Quote from: MadPlumbarian on September 24, 2018, 06:48:54 PMQuote from: 50ft-trad on September 24, 2018, 06:43:06 PMJust dragged this monstrosity out of the shed. I'm putting together a "hobby desk", and figured it might be useful.A neighbour gave it to me before he moved away, and it had been stood idle for a few years before that, so it does need a little bit of cleaning up. The foot, table, and column are quite rusty, but a little wire wool and a spot of oil should tidy it up a bit. The drive and bearings seem fine, though I don't know how much life the v belt has in it. I'll probably need to take the chuck off and inspect that too, as it's sticking a bit. Probably nothing a wire brush and dab of grease can't fix.Ohhh, how nice! Don’t forget pics of this little hobby desk, wonder where you got that idea JRIt'll be a while before pics, as there's still a lot more sorting needed, and I can only do a bit each day. I will get them up when it's done though
Oh I’m sure, but we better get a report on that 6 in 1, I’ve always thought about getting one of those but they look so cheesy, yet to have both a metal and wood lathe, along with a drillpress, a disk sander and jig all in little room would be great.JR
I know Milwakee makes the strongest drills atm, but my experience with their batteries and customer service haven't exactly been the greatest....Makita also makes good stuff, but they are hard and expensive to find anyone who stocks around here....and when one does they are usually stupidly expensive.My dad is a huge fan of Borsch, and he has had pretty good experiences with them. I personally don't have any bad experiences with them either. But personally I am a DeWalt person, I am sure that there are better drills and various powertools out there, but pretty much every DIY store here in Ireland has DeWalt stuff and batteries and chargers etc. are widely available everywhere too, plus their accessories, like bit drivers, drill bits etc are pretty good too and not too expensive either.Anyway, here's a picture of my DeWalt stuff.
Quote from: MMR on October 11, 2018, 11:09:39 AMI know Milwakee makes the strongest drills atm, but my experience with their batteries and customer service haven't exactly been the greatest....Makita also makes good stuff, but they are hard and expensive to find anyone who stocks around here....and when one does they are usually stupidly expensive.My dad is a huge fan of Borsch, and he has had pretty good experiences with them. I personally don't have any bad experiences with them either. But personally I am a DeWalt person, I am sure that there are better drills and various powertools out there, but pretty much every DIY store here in Ireland has DeWalt stuff and batteries and chargers etc. are widely available everywhere too, plus their accessories, like bit drivers, drill bits etc are pretty good too and not too expensive either.Anyway, here's a picture of my DeWalt stuff. I'd actually like to try DeWalt corded tools as they are seemingly unbreakable but here they are hard to find. So it is interesting to see that in Ireland they are everywhere
Most corded tools I see builders use are either from Hilti or Einhell. I don't have any experiences with either of those brands, the times I have seen Hilti in the stores they have usually been super expensive. Einhell seems to be more reasonable priced, usually around the same as DeWalt or Borsch
These are mine. Three 10.8V cordless drills (the current models are marketed as 12V but are basically identical). One of them is an impact driver. I really like these small machines, they are very light but still plenty powerful for most of the jobs. But to be honest I've been thinking about adding a couple of 18V machines.(Image removed from quote.)
The impact driver is not powerful enough for these things though: https://www.toolstation.nl/shop/Screws+%26+Fixings/d90/Plugs/sd2040/Fischer+SXR+T+kozijnpluggen/p59898?lnjs=nl&p=59898&sd=2040&d=2040I always need to use the corded hammer drill for those instead. Which is not really recommended.
Late 90's DeWalt DC727 on it's second motor and umpteenth battery.
Quote from: twiliter on October 14, 2018, 12:39:26 PMLate 90's DeWalt DC727 on it's second motor and umpteenth battery. I liked the 90s dewalts - they were the epitome (epitome, is that the right word?) of cool back then. I bet that chuck's annoying though, it looks like a dropper!?
Quote from: Fuzzbucket on October 14, 2018, 01:14:34 PMQuote from: twiliter on October 14, 2018, 12:39:26 PMLate 90's DeWalt DC727 on it's second motor and umpteenth battery. I liked the 90s dewalts - they were the epitome (epitome, is that the right word?) of cool back then. I bet that chuck's annoying though, it looks like a dropper!?I don't use the DeWalt chuck very often, it's keyless but I use the hex adapter mostly. The adapter is a Kreg, it works well. The chuck on the 1/2" drill is a monster, I've had to hammer on the key a few times.
Quote from: twiliter on October 14, 2018, 01:21:03 PMQuote from: Fuzzbucket on October 14, 2018, 01:14:34 PMQuote from: twiliter on October 14, 2018, 12:39:26 PMLate 90's DeWalt DC727 on it's second motor and umpteenth battery. I liked the 90s dewalts - they were the epitome (epitome, is that the right word?) of cool back then. I bet that chuck's annoying though, it looks like a dropper!?I don't use the DeWalt chuck very often, it's keyless but I use the hex adapter mostly. The adapter is a Kreg, it works well. The chuck on the 1/2" drill is a monster, I've had to hammer on the key a few times. Nothing wrong with a bit of persuasion!
That's awesome! I have been wanting a drill press for years but never really got around to pulling the trigger. I have my eye on one on Amazon too... Is that 8 or 10 inches?Def