[TheForge] Buffalo Forge Post Drill

[Keziah's Forge]

You fed the rest of the cats to the dog?  I'll bet he was appreciative!!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" 
<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Buffalo Forge Post Drill


>I got my Buffalo drill press with a buggered quill end.
> I confess to clamping a 2 way adjustable vise to the table with a lathe
> bit in the jaws and incrementally faking a jacobs taper by trial and
> error on the buggered end.
> Hardly precision, but it worked well enough for most applications.
> Fortunately, i didn't know better.
> We've been fogged all spring, with the odd few hours of sun in the
> afternoons. The basil's doing OK, the tomatoes are retarded but mostly
> still alive, the apricot's done for the year. Managed to feed some of
> the wild kittens a bit of canned cat food ( kitten tamer in a can) until
> the big cats found out and elbowed the wee ones out of the way.
> Heck with the tom cats..they're supposed to be hunting!..fed the rest to
> the dog..he was very appreciative.
>
> Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> I recently acquired a Buffalo No.61 Post Drill .
>>> [snip]
>>> I would like to remove the original chuck and replace it with a more
>>> modern one.
>>
>> Mine (Green River, not Buffalo) has a sort of chuck apparently
>> integral with the shaft (quill?) that takes a 1/2" shank and holds it
>> with a set screw (well, actually, a hefty bolt).  I've asked my
>> friendly neighborhood machinist to order me a Jacobs chuck with a 1/2"
>> shank the next time he sends in an order to his far-away supplier of
>> such things.  I think that will make it quite usable if I can figure
>> out how to eliminate some wobble in the table.
>>
>> You got off easy on the brazing.  On mine, the drill advance works
>> with a fairly thin-wall, hard steel tube with a square thread cut on
>> the outside.  It was broken in two and had been run that way for
>> years. I had to get the beat-up ends aligned and oriented right, braze
>> it and then file out the threads with a warding file.  All good now,
>> though, and shouldn't break again since the stress on the repair is
>> compressive in normal operation. (I can't guess how they broke it.)
>>
>> I also have a W.F. & J. Barnes drill press that Chris & Laurie Huck
>> sold when they moved to Mexico.  The babbitt in the various shafts is
>> a bit worn but the spindle itself seems to be in very good shape and
>> runs true.  I'm awaiting a Jacobs chuck for it, too, one on a Morse
>> taper shank.
>>
>> While I'm here, though, I might say that one of the big improvements
>> in technology for me has been that my local hardware store now carries
>> Starrett hole saws.  Now I can make holes of 1/2" and over, up to
>> maybe 2-1/2", without buggering up (any further :-) my cheap and aging
>> 1/2" Taiwanese drill press.  If only they would stock those saws by
>> 16ths (instead of only 8ths) I could make all kinds of bearing- and
>> fit-this-into-that-type widgets that are otherwise a nuisance.
>>
>> Summer has finally come to our part of Nova Scotia (after a frost on
>> the 16th of June!) but now it's been rainy and overcast for going on a
>> fortnight.  Cabbages and tomatoes love it.  The basil is turning moldy
>> and dying.
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
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