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Little Machine Shop Drill Press
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I took delivery of this drill press from Little Machine Shop on Monday. It's not going to win any quality awards but we'll see how it performs once I get it set up on its stand.

Some observations so far:
The column tube is very thin at only .0655".  Yikes
The mount that the column is attached to is rather skimpy. At first I thought it was made from cast pot metal but it's some type of steel, just not very stout.
The column appears to be press fit into the mount since I can't see any welds or mechanical fasteners holding the two pieces together. That's a bit scary.  Jawdrop
The drill chuck and arbor that came with it look very cheaply made but I'll install them and check for run-out before I go looking for better ones.

Some good points:
It has some decent specs such as a 3.1" stroke which isn't too bad for a drill press of this size.
It has an MT2 spindle.
It has a 3/4hp motor. Most of the other small drill presses that I looked at had either a 1/3 or 1/2hp motor.
16 Speeds 220 - 3600 RPM. I just wish the lowest speed was 150 instead of 220.

I can't quite get the head onto the column by myself so I'm going to remove the motor pulley so I can get the motor off. Then I should have no trouble installing the head unassisted.

Ed


         

         

   
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Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-09-2021, 04:00 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 12:14 AM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by rleete - 06-10-2021, 05:59 AM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 12:24 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by Pete O - 06-10-2021, 08:01 AM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 12:27 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by Vinny - 06-10-2021, 05:13 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 06:46 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by Vinny - 06-10-2021, 06:58 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 07:05 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 08:09 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 09:30 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by Vinny - 06-11-2021, 02:59 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 08:15 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 09:32 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-10-2021, 09:36 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-11-2021, 10:39 AM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-11-2021, 12:46 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-11-2021, 07:28 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 06-12-2021, 12:16 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 07-04-2021, 03:00 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 07-04-2021, 10:30 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 08-25-2021, 01:41 PM
RE: Little Machine Shop Drill Press - by EdK - 08-25-2021, 06:14 PM



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