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It's probably around 135 / 140Kg, like many other similar drill presses. Yours is the good stuff because it's a split head design and it allows one adjust the slop in the quill. I paid a lot to get a new one (Jet JDP-20MF) just to get the split head feature. There were cheaper alternatives of about the same size and weight, but since they are not adjustable, over time will develop play between the quill and the head casting and one won't be able to compensate. It's those small details what makes all the difference.

When I saw the title I was wondering why anybody would make a reamer out of metallic calcium. Now I get it.

Had to drill out my spindle, a replacement one. They drilled it to 16mm in the centre, 19mm rear end. As it was good quality steel, metal drills did nothing. So, I used a tungsten tipped rock drill, shaped to suit. With coolant went through easily.

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Just got a similar piece. You would think for about $200 worth of brass and what they charge for shipping they would pack it a little better! The brass isn't as likely to be damaged; it's the box being destroyed from the inside due to the brass moving around that's the risk.

How much?

very helpful thanks for the demo, it makes decisions when buying on a budget easier when you know the tool works as it should

Great finish on the hardened spring steel. Can't go wrong for that price.

Cleaning out my shop i found a forgotten broken 20yr roundhead ratchet. I was surprised they warrantied it even though it was discontinued. They told me just to pick out the closest to it and that was it. Easiest process ever!

I'm getting one of these because of the warranty. Had a Fiskars file (looks the same) in my cart, for checkout, then said, "I know the Fiskars is better, but with a home depot around the corner and that warranty on the husky", well........the Husky it tiz.

Where's the irony?

A Video showing that a lifetime warranty is a lifetime warranty... REALLY??? For me this video was a GIANT waste of time.

Chain saws don’t have blades

I might pick one up some time

Great tip! Awesome

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Thats how I clean mine, I use 100% vinegar then wash them with baking soda, oil them up with 30 weight oil and wrap them in burlap.

Great tip! Thank you for the update! I just subbed!

Hopefully it won't be one of the husky tools with a lifetime warranty that you can't use because they stop carrying it.

Fiskars Yard tools are lifetime warranty also. They are good quality to begin with, If you break them, You can return to the store or Fiskars even without a receipt. I'll always buy Fiskars and definitely pick them up if I see them at a garage sale.

A maker of diamond files here suggests cleaning them with Comet or Ajax chlorine powder cleanser. I think it some how gets the fine material out of the grit portion.

I wouldn’t have given you a refund without the original receipt, and you probably didn’t have that , personally I think you are a cheap skate .

Love the gerstner ‼️

They must have made an error

So you drove 60 miles round trip to save $6🤔

Lowe's has a similar program. I've returned shovels that snapped.

Nice, My only concern would be the grease on the threads because metal particles may stick to it. I personally like dry lube such as PTFE

See i know about brakes , kinda ... wheel bearing... okay ... 👍🏼

I'm a woman , i dunno what a Grommet is but im guna make a few wrong guesses and you can just tell me what it really is : - is it for a door ? - a car part ? - ummm... ok that's all i got. 😂

Great tip! Other items such as Home Depot "house brand" Utilitech are also covered though perhaps not for a lifetime. I had a few LED light bulbs go dim or flicker and since there were the fancy kind they weren't cheap (about $6 each). I'd purchased a couple as spares so I still had the packaging - I waited till enough for a package failed and brought them back - they gave me new ones which have been fine since - I've learned to ask for a printed receipt tape it to the packaging or put on my spindle in the garage.

Sadly the nearest HD is an hour away.

I guess this is a copy of a Kurt vice? Interesting to see the "hook" that pulls the moving jaw down.

I also have a Wells 645, and needed to remove the head. I fabricated a weldment that had a vertical tube, that I lined with a section of ABS plastic pipe, with an internal diameter, the same size as the quill. Bolted that to the table, inserted the quill into the fixture, and unbolted the head. Worked perfectly!!! I don't know why, so many people abused these old Wels, Index milling machines, but those bolts being stripped off are very common. I made a new set. The circular rack had been stripped out, probably because some fool didn't loosen the locking bolts. I had to reference the rack to where there was a complete good section. It worked perfectly!!! I love the machine!!! I finally added a 4 axis DRO from DRO Pros, and it made it like a whole new machine, despite having used it for years with out a DRO. I an considering a VFD, to make speed changes easier, but the pully system really isn't that bad. I have never run out of power with the stock motor. I am probably going to fit a servo drive to the knee, to make for easier set ups for the kind of work I do. However, I made a drill adapter that works very well, so I haven't gotten too motivated to fit the servo drive just yet. Great machine. Maybe some day I will fit a #40 taper spindle, as I think some of the 645's were so equipped!!! The standard Bridgeport collet assembly works just fine, I never bothered to fit a pneumatic closer, but maybe some day. Great machine, hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine!!! LOL!!! Tim

A friend of mine that owns a garage stores his files in a jar of vinegar in the garage

She's such a precious 🙂

Thanks for the video, sir

Wonder what kind of oil that stuff is?

thanks brother

I got a number 26 one

Nice!

Can you Ting it ? I gotta hear the ting...😂

When a file is used on soft material like aluminum, you can use the same material to remove the the filings that stick. Holing the file in your left hand, stroke the material parallel with the teeth - pushing away from you. This was taught to me by lifetime tool and die/mold and jig machinist.(born 1938)

I took it a step farther and added a splash of Evaporust. The file looks and cuts like new

Use the Cleaning vinegar. It’s like 40% as apposed to the other stuff which is 10%

Henley’s Formulas for Home and Workshop, that 100 year old book, has a procedure for this using nitric acid. I don’t know a source for the acid though.

Many years ago I read that soaking a file in a 50/50 mixture of sulfuric acid and water will sharpen an old file. I never tried this though.

Lets call it rejuvenating the file. I have been doing this for years with full sftrength white vinegar overnight. I clean the file with a piece of copper pipe. Good for use on swiss files.

Thanks I intend to give it a try

Cleaning yes…sharpening…definitely not..🙄