Drill Press Rack And Pinion Mechanism

Some have rigged a trailer hitch jack to their tables.

Drill press rack and pinion mechanism.

If you want i will look to see if i have saved one. 09 05 2008 12 37 pm 15. 09 05 2008 01 22 am 12. The counter weight was an option on some models.

After years of struggling to raise and lower the table i finally tried to replace the rack. A counterweight is possible but the head design would make this a bit tricky. It works very well but it had a broken column rack when i bought it. Newer dps come with a rack and pinion dp 350 for one but the mechanism is cast into the table collar.

Cranked old rack up through pinion gear 4. Pro form treadmills use a rack and pinion for the incline mechanism. A wide variety of drill press rack pinion options are available to you. I have an old continental international made in taiwan 15 inch floor drill press that i bought on craigslist several years ago.

A rack and pinion was also an option. The rack is slightly shorter than original but that doesn t present a problem as the table still comes all the way up to meet the chuck so it s plenty long enough. This rack worked for my sears 137 229150 15 inch drill press. This would be typical in a drill press spindle or a slide out mechanism where the pinion is stationary and drives the rack with the loaded mechanism that needs to be moved.

In some cases the pinion as the source of power drives the rack for locomotion. Removed the old rack from the. Others use a counter weight inside the column with a pulley on top and a cable around the table collar. Cranked new rack down through pinion.

View profile view forum posts diamond join date oct 2003 location east. I was going to make a small precision drill press out of one. The machine i think dates from the mid 1970s.