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My name is Michael, and I have a problem! Last weekend was the sliding table saw for $500. This weekend is a variable speed drill press for $200.
I found this on Craigslist an hour and a half after it was posted. I spent a good half hour trying to talk myself out of it... with no success... it was still posted. When I called the seller and asked if there was anything wrong with it he said: "It's old". I drove by the ATM and when I got there he told me it was about 18 years old and I probably wouldn't be able to get parts for it. I cranked through the low and high speeds and the spindle was nice and smooth. I could detect no play in the spindle when grabbing it and trying to jostle it. I has spent all of its 18 years in his wood shop and only has a single mark of shame on the table. It does look as nice in person as it does in the photos, if not better.
I have 2 vertical mills and this will be my 4th drill press. I have a 25 year old HF 16" drill press from back when they were mail order only. I have a 14" Chinese drill press given to me by my brother in law. And I have a 13" Walker turner I spent $50 on which is just like the WT my father had when I was growing up. The WT is a bench model that someone put a long column on to make it floor standing. I think I can most likely get $200 out of the 14" Chinese drill press. I will put the new Delta in the metal working side of my shop and move the 16" HF to the woodworking side of my shop. I don't think I will be able to part with the 13" WT... it is by far the smoothest running of the bunch. I will probably chop the column down to to a bench height colum and stick it in my reloading room under the pretense I might use it there some day.
Yes! I have a sickness... but really how can anyone pass up a 16.5" variable speed Delta drill press for $200?????
Appears to be model 17-900. At the time of this posting the user manual can be found here: https://www.mikestools.com/download/Delta_Drill_Press_Owners_Manuals/Delta_17-925.pdf
I found this on Craigslist an hour and a half after it was posted. I spent a good half hour trying to talk myself out of it... with no success... it was still posted. When I called the seller and asked if there was anything wrong with it he said: "It's old". I drove by the ATM and when I got there he told me it was about 18 years old and I probably wouldn't be able to get parts for it. I cranked through the low and high speeds and the spindle was nice and smooth. I could detect no play in the spindle when grabbing it and trying to jostle it. I has spent all of its 18 years in his wood shop and only has a single mark of shame on the table. It does look as nice in person as it does in the photos, if not better.
I have 2 vertical mills and this will be my 4th drill press. I have a 25 year old HF 16" drill press from back when they were mail order only. I have a 14" Chinese drill press given to me by my brother in law. And I have a 13" Walker turner I spent $50 on which is just like the WT my father had when I was growing up. The WT is a bench model that someone put a long column on to make it floor standing. I think I can most likely get $200 out of the 14" Chinese drill press. I will put the new Delta in the metal working side of my shop and move the 16" HF to the woodworking side of my shop. I don't think I will be able to part with the 13" WT... it is by far the smoothest running of the bunch. I will probably chop the column down to to a bench height colum and stick it in my reloading room under the pretense I might use it there some day.
Yes! I have a sickness... but really how can anyone pass up a 16.5" variable speed Delta drill press for $200?????
Appears to be model 17-900. At the time of this posting the user manual can be found here: https://www.mikestools.com/download/Delta_Drill_Press_Owners_Manuals/Delta_17-925.pdf
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