[TheForge] Buffalo Forge Post Drill OT:

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Considering our excess of cats, that would have been a very  nearly 
attractive option.
But some of the cats are bigger than the dog, and, being a Jack Russel 
with a cat killing history,i'm loathe to turn him loose.

Keziah's Forge wrote:
> You fed the rest of the cats to the dog?  I'll bet he was appreciative!!
> 
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> From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Buffalo Forge Post Drill
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>> 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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