Miguel Lopez
- Jan 25, 2012
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Hello everybody
As this project is not exactly electronic, but electro-mechanical, I think that this is the best place to post it.
The thing is that since I remember, I have used a bench drill that my father built. The bench drill is one of the electro-mechanical tools that I use most of the time, and it is a very useful tool. As I'm currently living at my wife's house while keeping the old bench drill at my own house, it is difficult sometimes to work, as I have to do part of the job in my place, and the other where I'm living.
Once, I asked my old man: "What would I need to make a bench drill", and he answered
; "a chuck, a bearings box, a sliding piece, and an electric motor". Simple isn't it?.
Well, by that time (talking about 10 years ago) I had the chuck, and a tiny electric motor, but I lacked the sliding piece, and the bearings box. But the most important thing is that I did not really need the drill, as I was using the one that my father built.
Now things have changed and I'm not living at my place, so building the bench drill seems a good idea. On the other hand, as time went by, I got a suitable sliding piece and a pillar. And the bearings box (I have the bearings) can be made by a turner, so. why not? In fact, a turner has already made the bearing box that I need as well as the axle to hold the chuck and its pulley.
During my first attempt to built this tool I broke the sliding piece that I had, as it was made on cast iron and when I tightened the bolts, it broke. The pillar is OK, so I talked to the turner and he will make two anular slide pieces for the bench drill. I will need some welding too for the sliding piece.
To give you an idea of what I want to built, see the picture bellow. It will be operated via a lever to make it move downward, and will recover upward via springs.
As this project is not exactly electronic, but electro-mechanical, I think that this is the best place to post it.
The thing is that since I remember, I have used a bench drill that my father built. The bench drill is one of the electro-mechanical tools that I use most of the time, and it is a very useful tool. As I'm currently living at my wife's house while keeping the old bench drill at my own house, it is difficult sometimes to work, as I have to do part of the job in my place, and the other where I'm living.
Once, I asked my old man: "What would I need to make a bench drill", and he answered
; "a chuck, a bearings box, a sliding piece, and an electric motor". Simple isn't it?.
Well, by that time (talking about 10 years ago) I had the chuck, and a tiny electric motor, but I lacked the sliding piece, and the bearings box. But the most important thing is that I did not really need the drill, as I was using the one that my father built.
Now things have changed and I'm not living at my place, so building the bench drill seems a good idea. On the other hand, as time went by, I got a suitable sliding piece and a pillar. And the bearings box (I have the bearings) can be made by a turner, so. why not? In fact, a turner has already made the bearing box that I need as well as the axle to hold the chuck and its pulley.
During my first attempt to built this tool I broke the sliding piece that I had, as it was made on cast iron and when I tightened the bolts, it broke. The pillar is OK, so I talked to the turner and he will make two anular slide pieces for the bench drill. I will need some welding too for the sliding piece.
To give you an idea of what I want to built, see the picture bellow. It will be operated via a lever to make it move downward, and will recover upward via springs.