Turning a pipe without a lathe

stryped · 2016-01-11T18:10:45+00:00

I am thinking of concerting my table top drill press into a floor press by replacing the round column with a taller one. I can get a pipe that is clos e to the same size in stainless, but I would need to somehow turn the ends down where they fit into the top and base approximately .001 to .002. Any ideas on how this could be done without a lathe?

Jan 11, 2016 21 Replies

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Larry Jaques 10 years ago

It _is_ stryped, after all. Why do you guys bother?

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geraldrmiller 10 years ago

Several years back I salvaged a couple display stands - think intravenus poles on steroids - one of which I used to convert my bench top drill press to a floor model. The vertical tube was chrome plated and 50 thou too small so I made 0.025" shims for the table and head bores, replaced the 1/6HP motor with 1/3HP and the 3/8" chuck with

1/2". It is still a pretty wimpy DP but more useful than before. Oh Yeah - I filled the thin wall vertical tube with damp concrete mix well compacted, to give it a little more rigidity.

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