I have an old beater Sears Craftsman (King Sealy) drill press that a friend wants to use. Unfortunately it does not have handles. So I am looking for two or three drill press handles.
ANY handles will probably do as the press had a home-made big steel hub to fasten the handles to. I looked at speed handles for mill vises, but at 4" long they were a little short.
So if you have any you wish to sell, please e-mail me.
Thanks
Charles is California
Greetings:
Sorry don't have any to sell, but had same situation with a largish Wilton DP. Holes in hub were 14mm; made three levers with allthread, appropriate ID copper tube, and some big black balls with threaded inserts.
Alternative is to make up with lathe if avail.
Regards, Jim Brown
Wow..I like that. Chinese I presume?
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
Just buy some giant long bolts. Thread a nut on, screw the bolt into the crank ring, snug up the nuts so it won't vibrate loose. A bolt that big should have enough head to get a good grip..
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:15:14 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (daniel peterman) quickly quoth:
Fuel hose makes a nice grip on those, too.
LJ--who will do that very thing once he gets back out to the shop to play with his GunnerLand(tm) drill press.
P.S: With a lathe, one could machine and countersink ball ends for the bolts.
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We mounted a small diameter steering wheel on our small shop drill press, complete with wrist breaker. Started out as a joke, but it has been on there for over 4 years and no one wants to take it off. It was one of the nice padded ones. ______________________________ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) snipped-for-privacy@7cox.net
Ball ends????
Drill and tap a golf ball. Makes a GREAT ball end on machine tools.
I use em all the time and can buy em at the second hand store for .10cents
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
I've run into some real hardware stores that carry handle balls with threaded inserts, you could get some rod of the correct diameter from the same source and run suitable threads onto appropriate lengths. Probably would cost $10 for a set of three handles for materials if you've got the right die on hand. If you gotta scrounge, gear shift balls might work for you.
Stan
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Good Luck!
Erik
I was going to suggest using gear shift knobs from Model "A" Fords, but they are getting hard to find these days. Gerry :-)} London, Canada
A quick trip to Pep Boys will find a knobbie or two. Then there is always the wonderful JCWhitney catalog for alll kinds of knobbies. How about a set of hand grenades for knobs?
-- Yeppie, Bush is such an idiot that He usually outwits everybody else. How dumb!
I vote for JCWhitney,
I've alwasy wanted a naked woman suicide knob on my drill press.. LOL...
--.- Dave
I found one way back when for my paper route, but it's gotten a lot harder since - IIRC California totally outlawed spinners for on-road vehicles, except for vehicles with hand controls for the disabled.
(And damned if I can't find that CVC section...)
NAPA might be able to order them in from an out-of-area warehouse, they probably don't stock them in our region.
Then there's our old mail-order friend JC Whitney (barf)...
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Tractor Supply Company, Northern Tool.
Try the Agriculture or tractor stores. May be illegal on a car, but still pretty common on tractors.
Cheers Trevor Jones
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:58:50 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:
eBay, of course. I had one on my first car, a '57 chebby BelAir 4dht. It had at least a 20" wheel and needed every BIT of it. Be sure you mount it on the inside diameter so the outside is free to spin between your mitts. DAMHIKT (But it didn't break any fingers.)
Regarding that stand for the horz mill, do you have any suggestions as to configuration? I was going to make it a regular flared-leg thang and put casters on it, but I'm wondering if I _should_ mount casters or not. I haven't seen it run yet and don't know how much effort goes into the manual table shifting. I'll get the drill press and bandsaw running first, or vice versa.
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:17:20 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:
I said:
The bad news: I'm swamped with work right now (3 MUST FINISH projects for tomorrow) and it's due to start raining Friday. Oy vay!
Oh, I have to finish putting a real weld on that stiffener bracket on my truck frame to use the truck bed crane to lower it onto the soon-to-be stand, too. I think I'll have better luck with the TIG than i did with the stick. It's _welding_practice_ time again!
And until I get the bandsaw fixed, I'm hacksawing the angle iron. Hmm, I'd better pick up another couple blades tomorrow evening...
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