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25th Jan 2018, 10:47 PM #1human termite
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richardson drill press
there are probably many here who have an old richardson drill press like mine ,who have restored them ,my question is the shaft the morse taper of the chuck goes into,can it go further up the outer shaft it runs in,reason is I want to use a mortice kit on it but the shaft is too long ...............bob
you will see what i MEAN BY THE PHOTOS
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25th Jan 2018, 11:11 PM #2Diamond Member
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No, that is just the way these old drill presses are.
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25th Jan 2018, 11:14 PM #3human termite
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Thankyou........bob
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26th Jan 2018, 10:02 AM #4Diamond Member
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The only other thing you could possibly do is that I believe these also came with a screw on chuck instead of the morse taper socket. So if you found an old drill press you could swap out the entire spindle which should solve your clearance issue. Might be too much trouble though.
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26th Jan 2018, 10:28 AM #5Senior Member
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Many years ago I modified a Tough drill, which was similar to a Richardson with the extended shaft, by shortening the complete shaft. This entailed machining the nose down to shift the bottom bearing , extending the splines down the spindle, shifting the top bearing down, then slotting the barrel to get at the ejector slot in the spindle. This is virtually what Waldown did with their drills. The conversion worked very well. Unfortunately I did not take any photo's of the work and when I moved from Perth the drill went to a friend.
Incidentely, Tough made a drill with a spindle threaded spindle which took a chiselmorticer or a threaded chuck. There was one in the shipwrights workshop in the shipyard, my last workplace.
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30th Jan 2022, 05:26 PM #6Novice
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s j Richard drill press
hi all anyone got a Picture of the earth screw on handle side with a copper washer ? and a steel screw ? just lost mind whilst restoring
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