Rivett 918 questions+ Drillpress question

The walker turner ones are either bench or floor mounted - the only difference is the length of the pipe column between the two. Couldn't you just put in a longer column and make if 'full height?'

Or is the column more complex than that?

You could always shorten it and make it a bench model...

Jim (barely ticked over 50F yesterday...)

Congrats, Gunner. Great luck!

Damn Gunner, I'm GWE. Great scrounge.

FWIW, I had the same height thing with my vertical band saw. I built a heavy coolant catch pan with legs 6 inches high and set the saw in that. Does several things at once: have a place to recycle coolant so I could use flood, raises unit to save my back, and makes it REAL easy to move around with either a die cart or a hand pallet truck.

Karl;

That's a nice bonus, very cool.

Can't help you with parts though..

John

I'd say it wasn't a verg good rebuild job, I could have done better in my garage! They should have sent it back or gotten their money back.

Lane

Now thats an excellent idea! I like using coolant with the bigger drill presses...hummm indeedy.

Thanks!

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

I suspect that they did it in house. There is not all that much to one of these drill presses and its largely a matter of simply replacing bearings etc.

I make my living in part, repairing other peoples repairs.

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

There are enough people around who don't know which end of the hammer to use on the screw, that I have never paid more than $15 for a lawn mower to last me at least ten years. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

That happens -- far too often, I fear.

Great!

You may have to find another mag starter with a cover -- probably easier than finding a cover to fit this one.

It may have been for someone to operate from a chair -- perhaps even a wheelchair.

What you might try doing is getting some oversized pipe, weld a flange to it, and bore the ID to fit the column, and use that to extend the start of the column. That would mean that you could not lower the table as much as you might like, so even better would be to find some pipe which could be turned to make a new complete column.

Try it from a chair, for when you have a bunch of small parts to drill.

I've seen things which start with a collar around the column -- free to slide up and down when not clamped, with an arm coming out and down at an angle -- say 30 degrees or so. This was two flats, with a third flat between them, pivoted near the end of the first arm, and a cam lever near the back of the first arm. There was a pivoted shoe on the free end, so when you move the lever, it cammed the back of the free arm up, and the pivoted shoe down to clamp the workpiece firmly. This also put enough side load on the collar around the column so that would lock up too.

I would be interested -- but I doubt that any of them would be small enough to fit through my file-size spam block -- and that block happens before my system even knows who sent it, so I can't special case individual addresses. I suspect that the dropbox makes more sense, if enough are interested in seeing them.

Enjoy, DoN.

I suspect you are correct. Ill have to check my Secret Sources © for one.

I think Id rather simply make a table to set it on. About 16" or so tall would do the job. Another poster mentioned using it for a coolant tank basin and I rather like that idea.

I believe thats what this is..but the lever is busted off. Ill get to it one of these days and if thats the case, simply weld another lever on.

Gunner

"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

Looking at the photo, it looks like the ones which I've seen advertised. (I never had my hands on one to use it directly.)

Nice -- it looks like it has a L-00 spindle nose -- the first clue was one of the objects in the under shelves.

Yep -- but you *could* weld on an extension to the bottom of the column, and just boost the column and head.

O.K. One of the ones with the pneumatic X-axis feed. (Maybe the Y-axis as well -- it is a bit dark to tell. But with a bit of zooming in, I see that it has the mounting ring for the vertical head.

I don't have room for a second one -- and the shipping across the country would be a killer.

That's O.K. I prefer to download a larger file, so I can zoom into detail when I wish.

Thanks, DoN.

I checke around some shops today..the lever is indeed busted off. Ill weld up a new one this weekend.

Well....its Similar to L-00, but about half that size with a rather smallish key.

Y is manual. With the dial and original crank , same as the knee.

Road Trip!

Thanks for the comments.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner