Please help ID this drill press

[SidBeam]

Hoping someone might have some suggestions as to the purpose of design and manufacturer of this drill press.

The table is, guessing, about 36” in diameter. Quill is a MT2. Spindle moves up & down on gibbed dovetails. Table moves in & out and rotates easily. In spite of appearances, no dimples on the table. Not mine, helped a friend load

Any ideas?

[mattthemuppet]

no idea, but that is a really cool drill press!

[SVS]

Has a bit of jig borer look to it crossed with maybe Arboga or other European drill press. Never seen the like….

The louvres in the base suggest a coolant system?

[SidBeam]

Thanks for feedback.

Louvers appear to be for ventilation as that's the location of the motor. It hangs upside-down with a step pulley. A bit of a pain to change.

No sign of any coolant collection/pump in the bottom. Will know more after some clean-up.

[BCRider]

I gather that there's rotating shaft that runs up inside the square column? It sort of looks medium size to me from the pictures. Big enough that I also assume that there's some manner of crank to the head to raise and lower it?

It appears that it might be an MT2 or MT3 socket quill. But if so then a lot of the tooling in the second picture was for some other machine.

[Doozer]

Asquith ?

-D

[SVS]

Ahh…I didn’t account for the spindle motor-figured it was built into the upper level.

Does the table travel in & out? Does it rotate with some form of angular measurement or indexing. It appears to be optimized for hole circles
at variable radii, but I may be imagining things.

[BCRider]

Ahh…I didn’t account for the spindle motor-figured it was built into the upper level.

Does the table travel in & out? Does it rotate with some form of angular measurement or indexing. It appears to be optimized for hole circles
at variable radii, but I may be imagining things.

Well spotted! Looking closer at the full size first pic the table is not part of the round dish. So quite possibly it rotates. It's painted around the edge though so no index marks unless they are under the paint.

The round tray also appears to sit on what looks like it might be an X-Y travel arrangement that uses round bars for at least the Y axis. We can see the one round bar sticking out. The other is out of the frame. And that crank handle that might well be the X or rotational travel.

This will be a fun machine to see being broken down and analyzed and, I assume, restored?

[JRouche]

Hoping someone might have some suggestions as to the purpose of design and manufacturer of this drill press.
Any ideas?

That is a fine looking drilling machine. Could be a dedicated wheel drilling machine. No casting identifiers could mean an early Asian import. Either way it should clean up wheel nice JR

[boslab]

I have seen somthing like it in a glass workshop they drilled mirrors on it,
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