Waker Turner 8 head Drill press

[MwTech Inc]

Bought this years ago when we were doing the "wood" thing.....
Used it for a little bit....
The wiring was crazy bad so we took all that off....never got around to redoing it....
Motors are 115/220 single phase 1725 rpm
All heads variable speed and counterbalanced on columns, when lock is loosened heads "float" on column so they don't drop.
Spare parts are in boxes Table real nice . very few drill holes.
First motor has reversing switch wired into it.
Little less than 9Ft long
All heads run. $1500
Free loading with forktruck on this end.

 

[Vancbiker]

Nooooo! Seeing that brings back memories of my first machine shop job. Start at one end. Drop a casting into a tumble block fixture and work your way down the line drilling, tapping, reaming holes as needed. At the end of the line, open the fixture remove and blow off the part and toss it in the finished bin. Walk back and repeat a thousand or so times.

 

[MwTech Inc]

Yep
Thats what we did with wood....lol
This came out of a shop in Philly that worked for NASA in the late 60's
Hard to say what this made........

Just think.......You could re-live your memories

 

[Vancbiker]

........Just think.......You could re-live your nightmares

Fixed it for you ^ .

 

[MwTech Inc]

Almost choked on my lunch ....

 

[Doug]

I was in a shop with those. and sometimes they hooked a trough between 2 of them to slide the fixture along
all 12 heads.

 

[alphonso]

Shop I worked at in '76 was making lots of aluminum plates for different kinds of control boxes. We set up fifty Sears drill presses in a row. Damn near a hundred feet long aluminum plate screwed to the table of each machine. Suitcase fixtures with painted path lines in different colors for each size hole in fixture. Some parts had 30 different size holes. Appropriate color tag on the drill head. Nearly idiot proof. Of course the ladies fucked up less than the moronic guys. Kept me hopping trying to keep up with changing out parts and broken drills, taps, etc.