It’s not a current tool, but I thought because of it’s age, listing it here might get some good answers.
My grandfather had one of these, and just yesterday, I found a smaller version. All I can find on the smaller one is a cast marking, “V-4” on the cast iron body, “V-1” on the crank, and “Patent March 04, 1890” on the main web casting.
Here is an older picture I found on the web, but little information was with it.
If it is a horizontal drill press, any ideas as to what it was design to do?
Thanks,
Bill
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Part of an apple peeler, methinks.
heh, me thinks the worms will have no chance with that drill bit in there.
"Part of an apple peeler, methinks."Say thou so?! Tis the first imagined object out of airy nothing that settled within my pate as well. Oh the lady doth know.Fair maiden...
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I don't know - but I sometimes have to drill a dowel hole in the end of a long narrow piece, like the 2x2s on this gate. That looks like, set up properly, it would work well for the job.
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Edited 7/27/2009 1:54 am by Huck
it is for drilling holes.
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