Better Than New! 60 Year Old Drill Restored
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The latest vintage woodworking machine to find its way into my shop is a Fobco Star Drilling and Milling Machine.
I don't think this drill has been used in about 20 years. The electrics are shot and the chuck is seized. Before I can commit to this resto I need to make sure it is repairable.
Restoring a vintage Fobco Star Drill Press.
I am really enjoying these restorations so let me know if you want to see more of them and I will try and fit in the odd restoration video.
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I appreciate how you talk us through the process. So many channels want us to believe they pull pieces of rusty junk out of the swamp and bring them back to almost original without saying a word. You're the real deal
So many of these people making videos don't have a clue what they're doing,This guy did a nice job
I have the same Fobco drill press but with a benchtop stand instead of floor mounted. Came out of an old college and still going strong. Build quality is on another level compared to the crap on the shelves today!
This is true and I have been researching why this was so true back 50+ years ago. I am not sure which company's in Europe who made machinery but in the U.S. it was a select few of them. The reason being was that during the industrial revolution a lot of heavy machinery was manufactured and those plants who had the facilities to manufacture machinery latter on switched to a consumer based economy after WWII, so they utilized their plants to make these sorts of Consumer/Prosumer products and they were overbuilt with materials that could probably make 3 of the same kind if they cheapened the manufacturing process which is done today in China. The products are built just to the spec to get the job done and nothing beyond that unless you want to go to a higher spec which is pro level.
Hence the reason why I go to all garage and estate sales and I have found some fantastic machinery for very cheap, unfortunately I can't go too big due to transportation and logistics and also add to the fact that I don't have 3 phase power in my Home otherwise I would have a Bridgeport Mill and a South Bend lathe. :)
Craftsman and Delta machinery like lathes, Drill presses and other wood working products were made by one company but I haven't been able to track down who made their products, all I know is that it's good stuff and a lot of the motor's were made by General Electric. So anytime I see a piece of Machinery that has a General electric motor hanging off of it I try and buy it. G.E. Motors were built like tanks! Plus I love the Black paint they used, almost looks like black Porcelain.
I have one of these exact drills. Weighs a tonne, but built in the days when ‘Made in England’ actually meant something. Round holes straight, every single time. Quite happy even swinging large hole saws in steel… 🙂
I restored a Delta DP 220 years ago. 72 years old now!! I love my vintage machine, and find great joy in the idea that it will almost certainly continue to provide useful service for decades to come.
I recently got a hold of a DP220. It’s turned into a bit of a money pit, but I think it’s worth it for a solid machine made in the U.S.A..
I don’t think I would sell it I think it would out last your new one after the restoration you’ve done on it. And I really like the colour choice. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride it was so enjoyable to watch
Really nice job! I love restoring old machines. When you finish with one and it runs as it should again, it is a great sense of satisfaction to see it in action.
Also, Craftsman had a whole line of tools from that era that was the metallic color.. it was the more expensive versions. I think it looks great. Well done!
I've just finished doing the exact same Fobco drill press. The Fobco drills are some of the best made, built like a tank and very heavy. I did a full strip down, including the motor. It's now like a new machine and way better than most of the new junk.
Its nice to see Wadkin, fobco and the like have a good reputation outside of the UK too, these old machines deserve to be well looked after and live on longer than us all- Its why i resto all my old machinery too. I'd highly recommend a Startrite 532 if you're ever looking for a bigger bandsaw
Well worth the wait. Wasn't disappointed. Perfect colour scheme. And yeah, get rid of the benchtop and keep this one. Go vintage!
You should definitely keep it, it looks great in your workshop and it matches your logo
Awesome. Very clever tricks with the PVC and the casters. Live and learn. Get yourself a blasting cabinet. You'll never regret it. Thanks. Much appreciated.
The space age design really popped after the restoration. Love it!
I have the same drill press. It was my grandfathers and is 60+ years old. I’m going to restore it but keep the original patena. It’s a great drill with many memories. Nice job. 👍
Well done! I enjoyed watching your process.
Beautiful Restoration.
Enjoy watching the vintage tools restoration. I think the color scheme is perfect
I think that the copper color turned out very well. It blends well with the black and I think it looks a lot better than the yellow. Really enjoy your restoration videos! Looking forward to seeing the next one and learning more ways of fixing things. Blessings my friend!
Such a piece of good job and nice machine also...congratulations.
Thanks man great video. And all the best from Northern California
I have a bench version of this drill press and restored mine about 5 years ago. I love it as a machine and have added a cheap, small, Chinese milling table to the accessories. I have only made 2 parts so far, new Cu contacts for my Toyota starting motor. I find it is the most used tool in my shed. I leave a rotary wire brush in it for cleaning threads and things and have made a larger plywood table with sacrificial wooden pads for drilling into and clamping to. I notice that when you started the clamp collar was below the moveable table and when completed, it was above. I think it should be below to stop gravity from taking the table to the very bottom. Well done, good to watch, Colin
Very respectable refurbishing. It looks like new and probably runs as such too. A drill press is something every shop has to have. And a floor model one is even better. I use mine daily for both wood and metal projects. Thumbs Up!
Those old barrel shaped Motors were great.
I really liked the copper colour and the video. My favourite items in the video were the custom soaking containers made from PVC pipe.
Awesome restoration
Nice job. The color looks great it is very close to the vintage Sears Power-Bronze. One word of caution, that’s a bench model base with a floor height column. I’ve seen a number of these conversions get tipped over because the base isn’t large enough.
Thanks. I suspected such a conversion was done due to the step cut in on the column.
@@WoodshopJunkies You could tie a bungie chord in the back and against the wall to keep it from tipping over.
The color is perfect. I have a 1957 Craftsman 100 Drill Press the same color.
Superb restoration!
Needs a racing stripe! Red one, great job, saving a old workhorse is always the best way to go, a little love and grease and it will last forever.👍👍👍
Beatiful! I have my grandfather's DeltavDP220, old tools are often the best tools.
Very nice job you must be very happy with it
excellent work, very instructive and perfect color "congratulations" MEXICO
Beautiful colour great video too
Great Restoration. I'm currently finishing up a restoration of a 1940's Craftsman "Mohawk" drill press that I inherited from my Grandfather. I just finally got a belt cover guard and, as you mentioned, need to find someone to make me a return spring. Mine is literally broken. It has bushings in the motor housing as well but also has 2 small ports on the top and bottom of the motor to add oil. Wondering if I should both grease and oil it or just rely on the oil. It didn't show signs of being greased previously. I'll hopefully be putting out a video on it soon. Thank you for sharing your experience restoring this beauty from the past.
Even if the color is not one you like, the end result looks 100 times better than before the restoration. Good job 👍
These FOBCO drills are great, I have 2, one floor standing and bench. They are very solid machines and have no movement in the quill, much better that the new ones I was looking. I note that you placed the collar above the table. I have it below the table as a safety stop for when the table needs adjusting which always happens after the work has been bolted down. I have also seen it under the main head casting as a safety stop, but yours looks like it can't move down too far as the main pillar is reduced in size at the top. Thanks for the video and keep up the restorations.
Lots of good things in your video.
The drill not only sounds good but it looks good too! I think the color scheme was a good choice as it has a old time look to it. Thanks for sharing this and I am looking forward to the compressor restoration.
I watched the video and still can’t believe how good it turned out. Rey nice.
The paint looks good.
Just saw this. Dude you did a GREAT JOB!!
Nice job Jean, nice job...
Fantastic job 👏 👍 👌
Great work. Cool colors.
My vintage Craftsman drill press was originally a more intense gold color than what you used. I kept it the same for the restoration and it looks glorious. I nicknamed it Elvis.
Excellent job Jean! For the table I would put an oversized piece of flat steel that you could add a fence and even some T-tracks for a really nice and safe drilling surface.
I have the same drill, good video, all that’s missing is a chuck guard 😉👍
The colour came out much better then I would have thought. I did like some of your creative ways to do this project suchh as the use of PVC to make soaking containers and the furniture wheels to spin the shaft.
Wooden vee blocks next time for that pillar soak I was so worried you would roll all the evaporust out all over the place! Great Channel mate!
I really love what you did with this restoration, and with how you shared the steps you took to achieve it. The copper is perfect in my opinion. Great work and thank you. Entertaining and helpful. 👍
Another Excellent restoration of fine vintage tool, thanks for sharing!
Those old power tools are built incredibly well. they are worth restoring.
can't believe the column is a solid shaft! they spared no expense when they made this drill press. Such machines are an honor to restore and enjoy. Quality at this level does not exist now. Maybe only for $2k+ industrial drill presses. also the pulleys are machined from iron and not zinc cast! nice! I would say this beats delta/walker turner machines interns of quality for sure
You always have such imaginative 'job jigs' to aid your restorations and other projects.
Awesome job. I truly appreciate your work and attention to detail. Keep up the great job
Turned out great. The colors are very nice. I’ve restored many old machines and it can be very gratifying when it all comes together. Can’t wait for the next video.
Very nice is better than the new design thanks my friend 🙏
Lekker, I have an very old heavy Stanley Grinder I need to do, thanks for this!
Excellent video!!
Looks really good!
Amazing work, the exact same as my pops drill I have in my shop only mine is more like the before than the after. Well done sir keep it going.
really nice job, you come up with some good ideas ,very helpfull thanks john from uk
Nice job I have two very old drill presses ones 100 years old and works great...
Great video and restoration. I love it when those old machines are given a new life. My table saw is a 1945 Rockwell Delta Milwaukee which I use almost everyday.
the copper has kinda like a Steampunk look. If you paint all your machines like that, it would probably look super dope
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoy old machines given a new life. I think I would have went with the cream color, it would give the drill more of a classic look. I look forward to the next video.
A very fine restoration god job !!
A great restoration... more real life than some of the other shops who seem to have every goo-gaw and tool.. Bravo!
I love watching you restore stuff, it's just so satisfying... and I'm always left wanting to go scour my local marketplace for something to restore (although I have zero knowhow or experience in this area)... 😂
Excellent job on that drill press. The copper is a great nod to the older look. The black and copper does look really good together. Keep up the great videos. Can't wait to see the compressor video.
wow, really cool. I like the colour!
I’ve been following for years. I am glad to see a touch of gray hair. It feels like we got old together.
I like the color. Very retro futuristic. Awesome job.
Great restoration video. Not much said w/o much talking, straight to the point. Awesome!
Nice job! I liked the copper color from the start, so I'm glad you did in the end too 🙂👍
Nice work, adding the products you use is great along with explanations. Thank you!
Very cool and downright magical seeing before and after.
Nice job! Im always amazed at the things you do. I love the color combo. ❤
"Don't sell it" ! .... that is now a fabulous machine and far better quality than most modern machinery you could buy these days, well worth it's place in your shop, quality 100% .... top job matey !
Once again, outstanding, thanks for including us.
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Man, watching this is soooo satisfying.
Color is okay, I think for my shop I'd do something like hamerite blue ... but the best part is not the color but the shiny restored sand, chuck and all the other metals. Awesome!
yeah my grandfather retired in 1972 and started buying machinery for his dream of a lil machine shop all his own. back then u could buy things. so he bought late 50s mid 60s model machines, u know used. now his past and guess who has them same 50s 60s machines. yes i.. lol all jokes aside, I'm so so lucky to have them, from the 6" lil lathe to my drill press. the machines i have saved me thousands. their old but not beat up. best part about it. they are so old i can make a part to fix it. lol. buddy with a lil lathe and mill,, shhhh. love ur video brother, be safe but have fun.!
Well done, young man! Well done, indeed. It went from looking like a wreck to something that will fetch top dollar!
you've inspired me to restore my own fobco pillar drill
Very nice I wish to have that in my work shop I’m in london at the moment but hopefully build my shop in colombia thanks my friend
I think the drill press(pillar drill in the uk) turned out super in the end and I'd definitely choose one like it over an up to date machine any day.
Brilliant restoration mate 👏 👌 👍🏽
Great Job!!!
Fobco are the best made drills back in the day. I’ve got a Fobco 7/8
I love the copper and black. Well done.
Great job!
Great restoration I love the color scheme I restored a 50year old radial arm saw but I couldn't do the motor don't know electrical though didn't cost to much to rebuild
@woodshopjunkies that turned out awesome! Well done! I love the black and gold colours! (You said copper but it looks gold on camera...either way it rocks!
I've started restoring tools myself because "A" I can't afford brand new and "B" the older models are normally much more durable and stronger than the newer ones. As I use mine I can't help but wonder about what it was used for and about the previous owners...
It's so satisfying cleaning and restoring a piece of history back into production! I didn't have access to a pvc tube for the post on mine. I soaked rubbermaid cloths in metal rescue (same idea as evaporust but it wasn't available in my area), wrapped it around the metal and tightly covered it with plastic wrap. Occasionally I would check and resoak the cloth as it dried. It turned out great!
Thanks for the lesson...I really hope you do more restorations! Just found you today
Well done Jean. Fantastic video once again. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this beauty come back to life. Keep up the great work.
The color and project is Beautiful
Well done!
I like the color. It blends with the other things in your shop.
Love these restorations! Very satisfying and I learn some stuff along the way! Color scheme is beautiful and it matches your logo!
Nice! You do good work
I like the color of the drill it looks cool and vintage both.
I'm restoring an old 1940-something Delta drill press so this video was especially interesting to me. I have removed the rust from the "column" by putting it in a PVC pipe filled with 1:5 molasses: water mixture and built a contraption using casters much like the one you used. However, I'm planning to attach a drill or angle grinder to the column so that it will spin when I use sandpaper and polishing compounds to shine it up.
That's a real beauty 🛠👍😊
Wow you did a fantastic job looks amazing well done 👏 👏👏👏👏👏 from a vintage Carpenter in England 🇬🇧