tools

[ak diesel driver]

I use it more often than you would think probably because I don't like to get wind blown by the window being down

 

[3500GMC]

Reminds me of a LaQuinta hotel commercial... (on selling ice to Eskimos)

 

[ak diesel driver]

we alaskan also eat more icecream per capita and usually it's in the winter, go figure

 

[3500GMC]

Heres that commercial, it's so darn silly it's hillarious..

[video=youtube;zNpDT98h6qs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpDT98h6qs[/video]

 

[btfarm]

Heres that commercial, it's so darn silly it's hillarious..

[video=youtube;zNpDT98h6qs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpDT98h6qs[/video]

Funny shit there...:rof:

 

[bison]

we alaskan also eat more icecream per capita and usually it's in the winter, go figure

That's easy to explain.
The stuff falls from the sky in winter just like manna,one can graze it or lick it from the car or whatever,....
There's even areas with raisins or grapes if one likes variety:hihi:

Just have to avoid the yellow stained spots

 

[ak diesel driver]

more tools

another craigs list deal. I traded one of my drill presses for this bandsaw. I paid $50 for the drill press. I know carolina tools aren't the greatest quality but I prolly won't use it much.

 

[3500GMC]

That will come in handy when you need it.

 

[ak diesel driver]

just checked this am and it's $70 to exchange a 75cf bottle of act

 

[Roark Supply]

Those ladder jacks and chainsaw are worth at least double what you paid, Great Deal!

 

[ak diesel driver]

picked up this drill press yesterday for $50 It needs a motor, I think I have one that will work. Anyone got any idea what the one fixture on the column is for? I was originally thinking it was for a motor support but the more I look at it.....

 

[btfarm]

Fence and holddown frame would be my guess. My modern Skill press has a fence ass'y on the column.

Half assed pic with a dear departed shop/barn cat.

 

[ak diesel driver]

after looking at yours I'm wondering if it is just another table/shelf bracket

 

[handcannon]

After looking it over----

It has a set screw to hold the vertical height, not easily adjusted, and it is between the quill and the adjustable table. So, it wasn't meant to be quickly and /or easily adjusted for height. The machined surface is upside down to the quill, so it must have held some other item that was bolted to it (note the four bolt holes). Since it is not easily adjusted it must have always set off to the side, leaving quick and easy access to, and adjustability for, the drill table.

It seems to be overkill, but would it have held a drill bit/tool rack? Older tools seem to always have been built to hold up and last, unlike new tools. The only other thing to me would have been a highly specialized clamp/vise/jig set up that was for larger items. This would allow the regular table to be rotated off to the side during the special operation.

Don't you wish you could get inside the head of whoever designed and built this?

Don

 

[ak diesel driver]

the drill has a different base on it than the original. makes me wonder if the bracket is on upsidedown. also the set screw could have been a quickie replacement for a broken handle.

 

[Grendahl]

the drill has a different base on it than the original. makes me wonder if the bracket is on upsidedown. also the set screw could have been a quickie replacement for a broken handle.

I wonder if that braket is meant to bolt the unit to the edge of a workbench. Maybe it is not meant to be a freestanding unit.

 

[btfarm]

I wonder if that braket is meant to bolt the unit to the edge of a workbench. Maybe it is not meant to be a freestanding unit.

I think you've hit a homer Mike!

 

[Ed HD]

How would it let the table go up/down though?

 

[btfarm]

I think the table goes above it then.

 

[ak diesel driver]

I'm not convinced