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Health and prosperity to all in the new calendar year.
Well,in the interests of saving fine machinery from the knackers yard and increasing my hoard of junk to annoy the neighbors I just could not pass up this item that popped up on Trade Me. After some frenzied and heated bidding I finally won out with a bid of NZD$91:00.
A phone call to a mate to borrow his trailer and another to borrow his No.1 son,(Gene,pictured in one of the photo's),and a quick drive acroos the harbour I came home with a No.1 Denbigh Camel Back Drill.
It has obviously been dropped on its side at some time as the shaft for the feed has a very slight tweak in it which should be no problem to straighten.
I have a shed to build along with other maintenance tasks that must be completed this Summer and then it will be a strip down and rebuild with new paint. It has a 1 & 1/2 H.P. 3 phase motor which I will run using the two capacitor static converter. I have a couple of spare single phase 2-H.P. capacitor start motors but will try it as it came first.
When I was doing my time we had a lot of old line drive machines that were run off a 150 H.P. electric motor after the original steam plant was junked and when I was at base one of my jobs was to dress the belts so appreciate just how good a transmission medium they are and I have developed a love of old machines from this otherwise misspent youth. Fond memories.
Anyway attached are some photographs,I hope I haven't wasted near a 100 bucks.
Well,in the interests of saving fine machinery from the knackers yard and increasing my hoard of junk to annoy the neighbors I just could not pass up this item that popped up on Trade Me. After some frenzied and heated bidding I finally won out with a bid of NZD$91:00.
A phone call to a mate to borrow his trailer and another to borrow his No.1 son,(Gene,pictured in one of the photo's),and a quick drive acroos the harbour I came home with a No.1 Denbigh Camel Back Drill.
It has obviously been dropped on its side at some time as the shaft for the feed has a very slight tweak in it which should be no problem to straighten.
I have a shed to build along with other maintenance tasks that must be completed this Summer and then it will be a strip down and rebuild with new paint. It has a 1 & 1/2 H.P. 3 phase motor which I will run using the two capacitor static converter. I have a couple of spare single phase 2-H.P. capacitor start motors but will try it as it came first.
When I was doing my time we had a lot of old line drive machines that were run off a 150 H.P. electric motor after the original steam plant was junked and when I was at base one of my jobs was to dress the belts so appreciate just how good a transmission medium they are and I have developed a love of old machines from this otherwise misspent youth. Fond memories.
Anyway attached are some photographs,I hope I haven't wasted near a 100 bucks.