Resident Used Equipment Dealer?

GWE

Collection? Jeez... Does he own a few aircraft hangars or something? Your use of "*huge*" may be an understatement...

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022

Visiting that website is an experience unlike any others. Highly recommended.

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Nice "portable" mill there - 5 tons.

Too bad there's no picture for the 80" x 30 ft (!) roll lathe.

Bob

Gunner's pal Leigh at MarMachine is another possibility.

snipped-for-privacy@AOL.COM is his email address.

Radial arm drill press...?

John

How about an old buffalo drill press:

Something like this? McKean is my favorite dealer and they are 15 minutes away.

Not necessarily that big... Simply needs raw HP and "bulk" to drive a large multiple spindle head. He is doing 8-10 holes on a bolt circle that is 15" in diameter. Each hole 1/2" diameter ... So far in plastic, but possibly metals later.

The head is no problem... Been there, done that. But the drill press is always a challenge. To get enough HP and enough rigidity, you have to go pretty large.

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022

Yup. Those are the types he seeks as long as they have a non-rotating quill.

Nice machine. Possibly too large... If there is such a thing...

Wonder what the chuck mounting surface is on that? Looks like a spline rather than JT or MT...

Thats a cute little drill. It looks like the quill fell out of it. The spline drives the quill.

JOhn

Like a big Natco? A customer of mine scrapped one out about six months ago.

John

I think this is some sort of drill... It's "pretty" big.

- gpsman

I recently went to pick up some auction stuff, and saw an enormous drill press, the size of my pickup truck. I actually almost bid on it, not realizing that it was 4x bigger than i thought.

Cincinatti Bickford... Quite common and useful if you need a monster. But not compatible with most multiple spindle head devices that clamp onto the non-rotating quill because of the way the quill and spindle are driven and stroke.

If it were animated, and set up to fight a Bridgeport, who would win? :)

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022

According to john :

I'm not sure about that. It looks like a tap in a collet, used for rigid tapping. That machine looks as though it might have the ability to do a feed per revolution as would be needed for rigid tapping.

A pity that the view does not show the top of the head. I would expect a drawbar on that machine.

Enjoy, DoN.

Yup, I think you are right about the tap mounted in a Morse tap collet. Most all those radial arm presses use morse tapers. Radial arm drills generally do not use a drawbar. The radial arm drill float the quill for tapping. On some of them you can set the depth where the quill reverses direction for tapping. It is like tapping on a bridgeport but with a lot more torque.

If you have never seen one, a morse tap collet has a straight sided inside hole with split sides that squeeze in on the wall of the tap when the collet is put into the morse taper quill. There is a square at the bottom of the hole to drive the tap. The tap will not slip at all when held with this type of collet. They are useful in the tailstock of a lathe for tapping as well as in a bridgeport type mill. You would need a R-8 to morse adapter to use them though.

John