A month or so ago, I gloated about my $150 Arboga gear-head drill press. Time, as always, has been against me, but I've managed to sneak in a few minutes here and there to fix of paint this or that part.
One of the worst issues with the drill was this section that got chipped out:
It's the boss where the clockspring went, which got broken out when the drill fell over. Fortunately, it fractured at a setscrew hole, which limited the damage. I could have left it alone and just redrilled a new setscrew hole to one side, but I decided I'd risk welding it up.
I picked up some more "Muggyweld" rod, which worked reasonably well on my old Rockford drill, and cut and ground a chunk of filler from one of the Arboga's switchbox fragments.
The welding was uneventful, as was the crack at the front of the casting (which I think predated the fallover) that you can see just to the extreme right edge of the photo.
After welding, which was kind of tricky due to the pressed-in-place motor windings (the motor housing is part and parcel of the head casting) I set it up on the mill and rebored the hole:
Not a huge project, but if nothing else, I'm glad to be finally making some progress on it.
Doc.
One of the worst issues with the drill was this section that got chipped out:
It's the boss where the clockspring went, which got broken out when the drill fell over. Fortunately, it fractured at a setscrew hole, which limited the damage. I could have left it alone and just redrilled a new setscrew hole to one side, but I decided I'd risk welding it up.
I picked up some more "Muggyweld" rod, which worked reasonably well on my old Rockford drill, and cut and ground a chunk of filler from one of the Arboga's switchbox fragments.
The welding was uneventful, as was the crack at the front of the casting (which I think predated the fallover) that you can see just to the extreme right edge of the photo.
After welding, which was kind of tricky due to the pressed-in-place motor windings (the motor housing is part and parcel of the head casting) I set it up on the mill and rebored the hole:
Not a huge project, but if nothing else, I'm glad to be finally making some progress on it.
Doc.
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