Seeking article on Bench Drill upgrade

[EdwardParticipant @edward]

I seem to recall seeing an article on upgrading an Asian manufactured bench drill to improve the quill slides/bearings, but am unable to locate it.

 

Can anyone point me to the article?  I can’t really
justify the expense of a ‘proper’ bench drill, but am frustrated by the
sloppiness of the item I currently use.

[EdwardParticipant @edward]

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Hi Edward,

 

These articles may contain the info you want. I have not looked at the articles them selves, but simply referred to my homeproduced database. They seem to refer to quill backlash elimination.

 

ME 19 May 89 page 621 & 05 Jan 90 page 51

MEW40  Jan 97 page 20

 

These articles refer to modifying a drill press into a cheap milling machine, hence may also help.

 

MEW33  Jan 96 page 12

MEW35  May 96 page 66

MEW92  Aug 03 page 52

 

Hope this helps.

 

Peter G. Shaw

[EdwardParticipant @edward]

Peter,

 

My grateful thanks to you for finding this information.

 

MEW Issue 40 has the particular article that I recall.  I had tried several textual searches of Colin Usher’s MEW and ME indices, but obviously failed to think of any of the specific words used in the title of the article.

 

Edward

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Ooh, I’ve gone over all funny like!

 

Seriously though, glad to have been of help. And yes, I have aften found that another mind can think of a different way around the problem.

 

Regards,

 

Peter G. Shaw

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