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    New Toy,
    Some of you guy's may have seen this on Ebay.....
    I have to admit I was not expecting to win the Auction
    I thought I would start the bidding off by putting the starting bid of $100 and
    then forgot about it.
    Next thing I know 4 days later I recieve an email to pay for my item..
    I can't believe nobody else bid..... I did some reserch on it and by all counts it was an extremely well built and regarded machine and in it's day very very very expensive......
    Now I have to make some non existant room to put it
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    Hi Matthew, Guys,

    A very useful machine ! Pity about all the missing handles and ancillary bits.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaronJ View Post
    Hi Matthew, Guys,

    A very useful machine ! Pity about all the missing handles and ancillary bits.
    It's all there just hard to see.....
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    Ok for all the less knowledgeable among us (like me) what is it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by China View Post
    Ok for all the less knowledgeable among us (like me) what is it.
    Its a fancy drill press.
    Looks like it would have been used in a production environment where the job had to have two different sized holes. Probably would have a jig to suit the part being made and once the machine was set up some poor bugger would stand there drilling two holes in thousands of identical parts all day.
    peter

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    Hi Guys,

    A multi spindle octopus drill is one to watch out for ! 8, 10 or 12 spindles driven by a chain in the head. Half the spindles running the opposite way. Woe betide you if you got it wrong and put a right hand drill in a left hand spindle.

    I hated the foreman with a passion ! I didn't stick it out there very long.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Quote Originally Posted by China View Post
    Ok for all the less knowledgeable among us (like me) what is it.
    I didnt want to look dumb so waited till someone else asked....thanks China

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    Default New Toy...........

    I think the multi head drills were often used for different processes on each head, with the same setup. Drill and ream (or counterbore/thread etc.

    The old twin head Macson I have here has a completely plain table - no tee slots or any way of fixing a part to it. My understanding is the parts were loaded into a “cube” sort of jig that had drill bushes etc to guide the tool, and the cube was simply slid across to the other head for the second operation.

    Steve

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    Hi Steve, Guys,

    Yes you are right, multi head was used in that way !

    Multi spindle was used for items like cylinder heads or gearbox casings where you might have eight or ten holes to drill. Usually power down feed and variable speed. The drill heads were fixed into a head plate and a chain was threaded around the sprockets to drive them. Individual drill speeds were set using different size sprockets. Because they were all driven by the same chain, half the drills were left hand cutting. Actually in hindsight they were very dangerous machines, I don't remember any guards or other safety devices on them.
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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