drill press help for newbie

Are you saying that the spring forces the drill downward and you have to compress it to move the drill up and out of the way? Hmm...

If it is a spiral spring, you might be able to reverse it. Otherwise, I'd say you have a strange "autofeed" drill press on your hands. :)

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Exactly. It's forced down. Kinda different, eh?

They normally use a wound spring such as is found in a clock or a recoil starter for a smallengine. It may be that the end of the spring on this used drill press is broken. The spring is usually located opposte side of the handle, under a cover. Remove cover, being carefull that it does not fly apart on you and examine the spring ends. One end usually fits into a notch in thre cover and the other (inner) portion fits into the cross shaft of the handle. It may also be that it wa taken apart and reassembled wrong or it may have been made on a Friday or Monday in a china slave shop and it just turnedout that way, and only needs reversing.

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Tks, that's the answer. Looked closer and, voila, no cover, no spring. :-) Back to the seller it goes.

Maybe it's Australian .. you know ... for "down under" ??