You know that Newton's law about equal and opposite?Do you ever wonder if there's such thing as too big?
Do you think @pressbrake putting that much weight in his workshop, and Tonga recently being covered in ash are purely coincidental?
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Do you think @pressbrake putting that much weight in his workshop, and Tonga recently being covered in ash are purely coincidental?
Dieselman 63
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Well my big drill is pretty tiny compared to some of these - but it's a work of art and over 100 years old
Similar to my old one. Think it was 600kg, fair weight!
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No one will slip that into their pocket and have it away.Well my big drill is pretty tiny compared to some of these - but it's a work of art and over 100 years old
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This is one of mine. Waiting for me to restore it
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I see the old belt drive drills as junk, sorry about that but the Asquith owned by nutty above is one I’ve wanted for years. It was hard to ignore the auction and be a pal and not bid when it was on the bay!
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I agree the white metal bearings were coming to the end of their life, I moved mine on when I got my Meddings ten speed. Same 2MT spindle, bigger space between the spindle and base, endlessly easier to use.
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Yes interesting artefacts but annoying when you need to get it done
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I think we had one of those (if not similar) in the workshop when I was little. It got completely guarded up at one point, but it was always horrifically loud when running, and I was scared of it.
I'll always have geared head drills due to convenience of speed change, but I can't deny that those camelback drills look really cool
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I love the camel back drills. I got pressbrake old camel back here. I missed a massive one a few years ago. It was a good 12 ft high. A old factory had it that had closed down at the time and it needed to go. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to sort it. I still keep looking. I will find a big fkr one day
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I spent my tender years in a machine shop with several huge great radial arm drills. Surprisingly easy to swing back and forth, desperately the immensely size.Sometimes the right tool for the job is still a honkin great big radial arm drill... We have an Asquith OD1 and a K&W of similar size in our shop, still used daily
Though those first few years as nervous young apprentice were the most boring, repetitive and depressing years of my life, I grew to enjoy the workshop/factory life and camaraderie, and wish I’d taken a few photos of the place, and the stuff we made. I left when I was 29 to travel the world, and have never worked a land based job in my life since.
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I think we had one of those (if not similar) in the workshop when I was little. It got completely guarded up at one point, but it was always horrifically loud when running, and I was scared of it.
I'll always have geared head drills due to convenience of speed change, but I can't deny that those camelback drills look really cool
Yeah it’s not designed to run very fast (remember high speed was 400rpm back in 1920s!) but a lot of the castings weren’t exactly straight, it sort of wobbled into life but didn’t really matter too much. I used it on gate posts drilling a 1 1/2” hole through 10” of timber, it didn’t flinch, snag, just powered on through, no pilot hole. Single phase motor too! Had the motor drive using a fan belt from a Hillman Minx I think
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Wait until 4am I am sure google will allow a free cut and paste.Put a pic up and he can decide
Or there is not enough light in a top secret coal mine.
What always amazes me about these old machines is how the heck did they move them?
Long before the days of HIABs and forklifts. Lorries were a lot smaller in those days and yet the machines were bigger than the modern stuff.
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Thats a lovely book.
yeah its no longer in my possession, I donated it to the local industrial museum, as Asquiths are made in the local town...... and George Swift made drills locally too but are better know for lathes.
Ive had other brochure of locally made machine tools come through my posession and they've all ended up at the local museum.
