Jet Drill Press

[HighWall]

I came across this drill press recently. Although I've owned a number of drill presses over the years, I've not seen one with the extended quill (?) before. It's fully retracted. There was also a nifty bench mounted Jet precision drill with 1/4" chuck. They both followed me home...

 

[ddillman]

never seen one like that. I don't know why they would make it like that.

 

[Firstram]

My old Powermatic is similar.

 

[C-Bag]

never seen one like that. I don't know why they would make it like that.

So hole to knock out Morse taper bits and reamers is easy to get to?

 

[projectnut]

I think what you're seeing is quite common on older larger Jet drill presses. Here's a picture of my Jet JDP125-VS3. It's a 21" 3 phase machine capable of drilling 1 1/4 holes in mild steel.

 

[Bob Korves]

About the only advantage I can see with the extended quill is drilling down into deep recesses. Other than that, it would be less rigid when using larger tools.

 

[Eddyde]

Yep its a Morse taper spindle/quill. Makes it easy to change chucks and drills, etc.