Thread: The 'boat anchor' Waldown drill press

Nice! - the badge came up well in the end.

Elan, and of course thank you for the great images of the front badge. Those really made the front badge possible. I'd not found anything usable out there. Also thanks to the kind sir who let me measure up his 2M one sunny inter lockdown day.

Also thanks to caskwarrior for letting me look over his 8sn and 3M. Plus also the side 'drilling machine' badge is a reproduction of his father's old 8sn badge of same. Thanks for the detailed pic mate.

See, team effort eh. 👍😁

Come on Greg!! You left the knurling off the eccentric tensioner lever!!!

You have done a marvelous job on the Waldown. It is what I had expected after seeing your Bridgeport and the Ten.

Well done Mate!

Bob.

Ahh ha haaah! "well spotted, that man"! . he heh. I sure ummed and ahhed about that one. I don't have a knurler that I'm happy to use on the south bend - just the 'push' type and last time I used it the force locked up the cross slide and I had to dismantle it to free things up. I was thinking about having a side-step project an making a 'pinch' type one but, tangents on tangents on tangents etc. I thought I'd getterdone. But, I may revisit it when I have a knurler. I have sources a bunch of el-cheapo knurler wheels of different types for that project.

A few other small things are 'not quite right' - like, regardless of the fact that the motor on it is also from a Waldown drill press it just sits too high - about 1/4" - and it fouls with the top box. The motor / mount has no vertical adjustment so I had to raise the box. Also, I didn't have any 1mm spring steel about for the latch, so I had to use some (scavenged) 0.5mm pallet strapping. I'm not sure if it'll be up to the task. But, for now, it closes the lid well enough to stop it rattling but I think that'll need revisiting at some stage with some thicker spring steel.

[QUOTE=StrayAlien;1974227]All back together

I'll get some pics together and do a separate post on how I did the badges, erm, ... plates, I mean tags .... etched thingies.

Thanks again all,

Greg.

PS. .. oh, and I need to do the 'stop' that stops the table falling as you loosen it.[/QUOT

excellant resto

Oh, for future reference - the paint is Wattyl industrial range mixed to the Dulux colour "A323 Jimbaran Bay". The following post says that a 50/50 mix of that and "Dulux A322 Little Mermaid" is pretty close, but I just went for one. Cheapskate. Normally I'd get a colour match, but I had no original colour.

https://metalworkforums.com/f65/t194175-waldown-blue

As it happens, the "Jimbaran Bay" colour is really very close to the original colour of my Waldown C-0 TPG, but it is not quite the same blue as original Waldown blue I think.

Great work!
That looks fantastic!
Even stuck with the outdated switch direction. Personally I hate that and would have swapped on and of on the label to make it conform with all my machines and current convention....
But yours is historically correct.
When we're allowed to, I'll visit to see it in the flesh.

Cheers
Joe

Thanks mate. You're welcome to visit for sure. Though note, we're not we're we used to be.

Re the switch, yep, that's how they used to be. I was working from an old image on that one. Funny, because after I did the first etch I looked at it and wondered if I'd stuffed up! The 'down to turn off' makes far more sense.