Thread: More Tough Stuff - Filling The Holes In The Drill Press's Table

This could have been tacked onto the end of my previous thread about the Tough's table but that thread looked like it was going to unravel...

The two holes close to the table's edge had been drilled completely through the cast iron and were roughly 3/16" in diameter but they weren't round, they had been slightly skewed. I chose to bore the holes rather than simply drill them out to 5mm because I thought there would be less chipping at the entrance to the hole when bored and that the hole might indeed be round. The scope simplified alignment. I also created a step at a depth of 5mm because the cast iron plugs needed a back stop to facilitate piening. I filed several small flats around the lower portion of the plugs to provide a space for the Loctite bearing compound I used as a backup. The shallow hole near the table centre required the drilling of a small vent hole, 1.6mm dia. though the thickness of the casting and the hole itself opened up to 6mm to include its margins.

Masking tape prevented marring while filing initially with a lathe file, followed by a rectangular section riffler along with an assortment of needle files bowed to cut only on a portion of their teeth. A scrap of 120 grade wet and dry wrapped around a small block of cast iron finished things off.

BT

Wow


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Can't believe it's the same table.
Kryn

Right. Now let's see you fix the nick on the table's rim.

Jordan

You constantly amaze me Bob

Phil

Originally Posted by nadroj

Right. Now let's see you fix the nick on the table's rim.

Jordan

Nick? that's the zero mark used for complex rotational drilling jobs!!

Dean

Isoma and the small Kaiser boring head? A precision fix then!

Michael

Nice work BT.

Are you going to clean up the cast edge of the slots?

Cheers

Piers

P.S if you ever need some money for the pokies, I will take that boring head off your hands....

Thanks for all the likes you blokes. I posted this to show that sometimes with a bit of patience you can deal with the handiwork of the careless. I was fortunate that with this table the abuse was minimal. I was also extremely fortunate to have access to Alan's lathe.

The edge nick does need to be dealt with. I had been thinking of simply filling it with Devcon Steel Putty but the more I thought about it the more it seemed like a pussyish solution. I'm hatching a plugging plan.

And Piers, probably no more than touch up with a file.

BT

PS Piers. You'd probably lose the bitty Kaiser in one of the Maho's tee slots! Better it stays here.

Beautiful Fix Bob I wouldn't expect anything less. Maybe you could fix the nick on the edge with devcon mixed with cast iron dust ?
The only thing your Missing now Is a Schaublin lathe too go with those nice swiss tools.

Originally Posted by welder

Beautiful Fix Bob I wouldn't expect anything less. Maybe you could fix the nick on the edge with devcon mixed with cast iron dust ?
The only thing your Missing now Is a Schaublin lathe too go with those nice swiss tools.

Thank you Andre.

I still may have to resort to Devcon if my plugging plan fails and a combination of dust and putty might be a better colour match.

I used to think that owning a delicious tooled 102 or even a little 70 would be the ant's pants but having spent years looking at Schaublin prices on eBay I've realised that it would be just a dream. Dreaming is good though and they do come true at times, the 13 and its accessories being proof.

In reality, my 1969 9" Hercus does most of what I need and more importantly I enjoy using it. I'm happy with what I have.

Bob.

Originally Posted by nadroj

right. Now let's see you fix the nick on the table's rim.

jordan

.....:u

Unbelievable Bob! Love your work.

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Hi Bob,

Very nice work there

Jordan, Stick that in your pipe...

What the above said. Is there no end to your skills?
Kryn