Atlas 73 Drill Press Restoration: Part 9 - Pulleys and First Power Up
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- čas přidán 5. 10. 2016
- Part 9 of my Atlas 73 standing drill press restoration series. In this video I clean up and install the pulleys, belt and belt guard. I also paint the in the "ATLAS" lettering and test the head under power for the first time and drill a few holes.
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That is a quality drill press, other than being very solid and well built is that if I’m not mistaken, it has a 6” quill travel, what you would have to pay over $2000 to get today. Most drill presses today for $1000 will be doing good to have 4” travel, and most will be a lot less... it takes quality to get that 6” travel, and is the first thing to go in most of today’s machines. It started back in the 80’s when the Chinese entered the drill press market with geared table lifts, rotating, tilting, and those crap Chinese motors... but they were about 3-4” travel. You put new bearings in and upgrade the motor and you’ll have a machine ready to go another 50-75 years. The only problem is replacement parts. I just bought a rebuilt Rockwell 15-081, about the same as your Atlas, but not as nice, needed some parts and I found them on eBay and one part I found on the Internet that a guy is actually making the part.
Very enjoyable to watch your rebuild series. That will make you a very nice drill press for years to come. Thanks for posting, and I look forward to the next episode!
Thanks! Yeah I've very excited about having such a great drill press. It should last forever once I'm done with it (hopefully).
I have the same drill press. I love how you pay so much attention to detail. These videos are great!!! Now I know how to disassemble mine!! Thanks for making this series!
I have the same or close to it. Old work horse. I'm lucky previous owner took very good care of it and it needed no work at all. Thanks for video. Great job.
Hi Steven,
Thanks for doing this series of videos. I just got one of these Atlas drill presses, and I'm a lot more confident of rebuilding it after seeing your step by step approach. Great job!
+cmleoj thanks, yeah they are a lot of fun to work on. Good luck!
Nice work, your drill is a real beauty
Nice work!
Well, firstly, this drill press has been a great series, which I’ve binge-watched this afternoon (Christmas Eve 2018). In my garage I have the remains of an old Atlas drill press (different model, perhaps smaller than yours). I was going to pull it apart to make something else, but maybe I’ll try for a restoration after watching you do this one. It would certainly be better than the cheap one I’m using at present. Secondly, your channel combines two of my favourite topics, machinery and Amateur Radio (Christmas greetings from G0NMD!). Thirdly, you need to watch that hair near any revolving machinery (lathes, drill presses, milling machines) - safety first and always!
So thank you. I know this was finished long before the date I’m typing this, but I’ve enjoyed it.
73, Les in UK
That's awesome that you're interested in both Ham Radio and Machinery, it certainly seems to be a bit of a rare overlap but they are both very interesting. I still need to finish this project but it got a little buried under other projects. Yeah this drill press was very easy to work on, taking it apart and cleaning/oiling/greasing was very intuitive. I recommend doing the same if you have time sometime. These old drill presses are great. I try to always be mindful of my hair whenever operating machinery. If I'm doing anything that requires me to get close to anything spinning I always put it up in a ponytail and hat and tuck the ponytail into my shirt. 73.
Hello, I'm a recent subscriber and have watch all the video series on this restoration. Are you planning on making any more videos on the finished drill press? Sure would like to see it completed (table freed-up and painted). I see you've recently taken on the massive restoration of a milling machine I guess that's taking most of your time. Good luck!
Thank you for posting this project. It gave me plenty of info to take on the clean up of a Atlas 63 1m model drill press. I had the same problem with a stuck column clamp and it took a couple whacks with a dowels and hammer to release the table. My press appears to have been Navy surplus with the property tag from NEL still attached. All original dark gray paint is excellent and I won't need to do anything but clean and lube it. The column is rusty but cleaned up nicely. The column appears to be solid steel and not tubular as I would expect. This drill press weighs a ton, is solid as a rock but not as pretty as yours with the new paint job.
Wow that sounds great. I'm glad to hear that freeing up the table wasn't too bad, that will be my next project on mine.
Check this blog for info about a Craftsman DP that uses the same column locks but are made of steel. That would be much better material for the nut side.
www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=232838
Nice mashine
top job stev keep them coming I've done only on resto of machinery but plenty of planes and the satisfaction you get from it is fantastic
Thanks! Working on planes sounds amazing.
Really hoped to see the rest of the restoration. I have the same one and it really needs some work. It currently has runout. Do you think the rebuild of the quill section would fix that?
Awesome series. I just found it since I’m in the process of restoring my Atlas model 74. Any idea in where to get parts? I have found a few on eBay but not much. Thanks!
Nice
Hey do you know what is the tread size on the ball levers. Having difficulties getting a replacement knob m12 tread doest seam to match well
Steve what a great series! In regards to your parts washer where did you obtain yours from? And same for your blast cabinet? I have seen some from Harbor freight that look interesting.
+James Wiskus that's where I got both of those from. They seem to work ok, I don't really have any big complaints about them. The blast cabinet really needs a vacuum running when you use it so that it doesn't produce a bunch of dust, but I think that's pretty normal. Thanks!
really enjoying the drill press videos, this is something I would love to do myself but worry to much about the motor and pulling bushings. What cleaner are you using in the washer?
Thanks. I'm using Simple Green since it's non-toxic and non-flammable. I know some people use stuff like kerosene in their parts washers but that's a little too crazy for me.
The solvents are great but scary in my attached garage, i think I will give HF yellow degreaser or totally awsome ago this time. Keep up the good work.
I've never heard of that, I'll have to look into it. I'm always open for trying new, better degreasers.
I like the concentrated citrus based degreasers. They are very powerful and nontoxic. I got a great one, made by Finish Line, from a bicycle supply place in Switzerland. (www.veloplus.ch/AlleProdukte/ReinigungPflege/CITRUSENTFETTERvonFINISHLINE.aspx) A 2:1 or 3:1 water to concentrate mixture will dissove most oil based substances. One 600ml (20 oz) bottle goes a long way. In the US, it appears the same product is available from Amazon.com, Walmart, REI and other suppliers.
In the US, I have used a similar degreaser from Home Depot that is inexpensive and almost as good as the Finish Line product. (www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-128-oz-Heavy-Duty-Citrus-Degreaser-ZUCIT128/100676344). I'm sure there are similar products available at other stores.
FWIW, my personal experience is that the citrus based degreasers are more powerful and less irritating to the skin than Simple Green, Purple Power, etc., and they smell great! :-)
n124lp thanks for the suggestions! I'll certainly try one of those out. Simple green seems to work really well when it's nice and hot, but I don't have a heater in my parts washer yet. These citrus ones sound good, I want to only use nonflammable and non irritating stuff so those seem like they would work great.
to get the table to move get a mallet and hit on the locking pin
Yeah that seems pretty likely, it's pretty well frozen on there.
Great work so far. I really like your projects and videos. I would try to free it with penetrating fluid and a heat gun. Best wishes from Munich.
That's another good idea, I'll keep that in mind when I get to the table. Thanks!
nicely done, good Job. I am certainly not in the position of giving advice to you, but it really scars me, watching you move around These pullies and belts with all your hair. A friend of mine had once a terrible accident with a lathe and his too long hair. He always went in the Workshop with his hairs bound together, exept that one Day..
I know, they scare me too. I try to be very conscious of where my hair is when I'm around machinery or put it in a pony tail and tuck it into my shirt. Definitely not the safest thing to have long hair like this.
i noticed that your data tag was painted red. Were you able to repaint it?
+James Wiskus not yet, I'm not quite sure what to do there. The logo was screen printed on and pretty detailed, so I don't think I would do a very good job if I tried painting it myself. I might try to find one on eBay or something, I think that would be the easiest.
what ever happened? Did you finsih it? Polish the column is what I want to see. Where is part 10 and so on? Cant find it in your list of vids.
Haven't got to it yet. Switched over to the mill. I'll finish it this winter though I think.
Steven Lawson come on dude!
Where is part 10???!!!
Still no part 10?
I'm starting to fix up a similar (Atlas 63?) bench top drill press. The motor pulley is pretty stuck on the motor spindle - any tips on getting that off? Gear puller? Here's a photo: www.dropbox.com/s/uptl6njv96hsg1v/IMG2310.jpg?dl=0
Ted Power That's an awesome drill press! I love all these old Atlas presses. That's an good question. I would be a little hesitant to put a gear puller on it because it would have to push against the spindle, and that is held in place by a rack and pinion for the quill feed and it would be terrible to knock a tooth off the gear in there. Maybe some penetrating oil and a mallet to the bottom? Also, make sure you've removed the set screw in the pulley obviously. Not quite sure, good luck though!
Ah thanks, turns out the motor pulley just needed some force. And the front spindle pulley is a little different than yours - there isn't a set screw, it's actually fastened from below to a plate with 4 small screws. It's a tight space. I'm going to have to get an offset screwdriver to get it back on.
I have no idea what model mine actually is - it looks like a 63/64 but it's different in a few key ways from yours and the docs I found. The spring tensioner doesn't have a ratcheting release, for example. Anyway thanks for the videos, very helpful resource!
Did you replace the belt? The belt I have is probably 60 years old, looks ok but I'm wondering if new ones have a bit more flex.
Oh I'm glad to head you got it off. Mine has a shaft which the pulley attaches to that is also held in place by that little plate with the 4 screws. It sounds like your pulley is stuck on that shaft, though I guess there might not be a reason to remove it since you've already got it apart. I didn't replace the belt, though the one that came with it appeared to be fairly new.
Be careful with that hair around the workshop! Kind regards from fellow longhaired person, haha.
"absolutely smooth" ?? You can hear the bearings hissing. They are not yet catastrophic. But when you got things apart and you hear the slightest noise from the bearings then you better replace them because it is the cheapest at that moment when they are apart. When you have replaced all bearings only then you will know what "absolutely smooth" is like. The machine sure looks nice now. But I would have preferred new bearings over a new paint job to deserve the name restoration. The primary purpose of a machine is to function well. To look nice is less important unless you restore it for a museum.
rol eic yeah good point, I'll start looking into some new bearings. Thanks for the suggestion.