Drill press

Greg O · 2009-11-30T06:40:48+00:00

Well, I bought one. I found a Powermatic Model 1200 on Craig's list. 3 phase 1 HP motor, in good shape. It appears to have been built in 1971 by the Powermatic 1971 Anniversary stickers on it. It came with a hefty vice, a couple drill chucks, a funky T-slot clamp do-hicky. Only problem was the crank for the table height adjustment took a hit at some point so the the shaft is bent, and the speed control knobs are just bolts, (minor problem, are parts available??) Only one hole drilled into the table, no arc of shame! Paid $600 and a 8 hour round trip drive to pick it up. I think I did ok. You guys living in the manufacturing waste lands where tools can be bought for scrap price will probably think I paid too much, but I have been looking on and off for a heavy drill press for a couple years and this was the best deal I could find! Funny thing was it was listed on Craig's list a week ago for $1000, when I first contacted the seller. He never got back with me on any details and relisted it for $600. Not that I would have paid him $1000 for it, but someone would have!Now I need to run a wire for a 240 volt outlet, and wire up my VFD.Greg

Drill press

Nov 30, 2009 23 Replies

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Larry Jaques 16 years ago

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:31:37 -0500, the infamous Wes scrawled the following:

Yeah, 'twas a BIN. The guy/gal had sold 358 before me and had a 100% positive feedback, so it looked clean enough. It has only been ten days, and from Shanghai, that's not long enough. I'll give it another week before I start to worry. I'm still waiting for my free upgrade to Win7, too, and after 10 days, it still says "Fulfilling" on the status page of the website.

-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

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bw 16 years ago

I've received similar items in about 15 to 17 days. Both Hong Kong and Shanghai.

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Spehro Pefhany 16 years ago

It would be interesting to know what they really are - maybe 2G or 4G with the hacked reported capacity set to 64G... as so many are on e*ay I'm not curious enough to waste^H^H^H^H risk the price of a nice lunch to find out..

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Wes 16 years ago

If you ever get that 64GB thumb drive, make sure you can copy 64GB of data on and back off.

I've seen Win7, yuck!

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

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