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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Alright then, someone has to ask."What is the application for an 18000rpm drill drill press?"

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    Small drills.

    The smallest drill in this chart is 1/32" and recommended max speed = 36672 rpm for aluminium
    https://www.imperialsupplies.com/pdf...t_PRMChart.pdf
    I have a set of jet drills, the smallest drill in the set i can barely see now.....

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    I have a set of drills I use for electronics projects that go down to 0.5mm (and SWMBO has some even smaller for her jewelery stuff) I’ve use some of mine with a Dremel @ ~25k rpm. The higher speeds make a real difference. Better in a DP though as it means work and bit can be help at same position so less chance of bit breakage.

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    Jewellers and watch makers use high speed sensitive drill presses all the time one reason this thread interested me is I have a sensitive drill press
    the same colour I am trying to discover the maker

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grahame Collins View Post
    Alright then, someone has to ask."What is the application for an 18000rpm drill drill press?"

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    Hello from BC.
    My sister in law used to drill circuit boards at home for extra $$. She used a similar drill press and carbide drills. an Aussie sweat shop.
    BC

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    I was given a packet of .006" micro drills that were used for drilling cornea implants ... never used as I don't have a high speed drill. Looking at them through a microscope you'd swear you're looking at a 1" drill the detail is that good. Hopefully this link showing their manufacture works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55kLhv2d_4

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    Default Moore & Wright, and others

    Picked these up a few days ago. Deceased owner was a tool maker. One of the calipers has his name on it with 41 after it (year). Those 2 large calipers are 16 inch.

    Pic 05a - All M&W.
    Pic 54a - Pastorino Circlip pliers, Eclipse 235 toolmakers vice, other vice unmarked, could be from apprenticeship, bottom left I think is another toolmakers vice.
    Pic 07a - Pipe flare, M&W Surface gauge, Rockwell chuck ball & Test Blocks 27 & 62, various clamps & engineers jacks.

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    Thanks Grahame

    Spent 3 or so days sorting the garage out & cataloging tools, So got a good deal, seeing the family didn't want anything. It was going to be given away to friends, I said no way.

    Some of the tools had some surface rust, but came up pretty good with a light touch of the Carbide scraper.

    Her father was a Fitter & Turner / Tool Maker for the N.S.W Railways from 1940-85 when he retired.

    I have 2 friend who are into vintage cars coming around on Wednesday to have a look at some sockets & spanners & an 8 inch Centurion (Alltools) bench grinder.
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    Got lucky and scored this Australian-made grinder:



    As usual, working on a history page for the manufacturer. It's one heck of a unit - bigger and heavier than the 3-phase 1hp GMF I restored at the end of last year.

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    Hi JC,

    It looks like it has decent tool rests on it, unlike the rubbish we buy today !
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Would not surprise me if they were related to GMF. The base and tool rests look identical to a similar size and vintage GMF.
    Nice looking old thing. I think they had some at Vales Pt Power station when I was workign there back in the day.
    peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaronJ
    Hi JC,

    It looks like it has decent tool rests on it, unlike the rubbish we buy today !
    They sure are chunky - much better than those on my much newer A&A

    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    Would not surprise me if they were related to GMF. The base and tool rests look identical to a similar size and vintage GMF.
    Nice looking old thing. I think they had some at Vales Pt Power station when I was workign there back in the day.
    peter
    Good eye - they are related - John Durst was one of the founding three directors of GMF, as I found out when I did the history here:

    https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews...ishers-mowers/

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    Quote Originally Posted by J.C. View Post


    Good eye - they are related - John Durst was one of the founding three directors of GMF, as I found out when I did the history here:

    https://motofaction.org/tool-reviews...ishers-mowers/
    That's interesting as my old GMF is a lot older than your Durst I suspect. My GMF appears to have a shorter main body and appears (though I have never measured to confirm) to be larger in diameter. Ive had mine since around 1976 or 7 and it was old when I got it.
    peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    That's interesting as my old GMF is a lot older than your Durst I suspect. My GMF appears to have a shorter main body and appears (though I have never measured to confirm) to be larger in diameter. Ive had mine since around 1976 or 7 and it was old when I got it.
    peter
    I'm having trouble dating this grinder at this point, but I know where there's a stash of Durst catalogues that will help - here's hoping I can get hold of them.

    GMF came into being in 1940 and Durst 1918, for what that's worth... the only Durst ad I have found online in advertising is a very poorly scanned one in 1948 and it could​ be a match for what I have here, but it's darn hard to tell. Waiting on better info. Got a photo of your GMF?

    I'm pretty confident at least one of the GMF grinders I have here is older than this Durst - reminds me, I need to date the Junior GMF grinder...

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    Quote Originally Posted by J.C. View Post

    Got a photo of your GMF?
    Somewhere, but it will probably easier to just take some new ones. Not tonight though, I've already donated too much blood to the mossies tonight.
    peter

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    Quote Originally Posted by bollie7 View Post
    Somewhere, but it will probably easier to just take some new ones. Not tonight though, I've already donated too much blood to the mossies tonight.
    peter
    They're pretty bad at the moment aren't they! I am having to hide in the workshop with the door closed and hope they don't find their way in under the eaves...

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