I recently restored an old Delta drill press. If you replace the spindle bearings, it will drill as true as it did when it was new. We have an old Walker-Turner DP at work, and it is a good solid machine, but the spindle bearings have a lot of wear on them. . At the time of writing, the only Type 1 drill presses in the Photo Index have serial number 9DP1040. None have been entered for 9DP140, 9DP943. The original Walker-Turner serial-number document gave the codes as 9D140, 9D1040 and 9D943 but we assume that, in fact, the code DP and not D was used to indicate the 15-inch drill press. The original Walker-Turner serial-number document gave the codes as 9D140, 9D1040 and 9D943 but we assume that, in fact, the code DP and not D was used to indicate the 15-inch drill press. Type 2: For units with the Type 2 serial numbering system, the second letter indicates only the number of spindles or the type of spindle in the original unit. 15 INCH DRILL PRESS Manual walker- urne. Subiecf change without noti«. '900' SERIES DRILL PRESSES Keep this in your files for future reference on accessories and service parts. — Spindle Pul ley Housing. WALKER-TURNER DIVISION be screwe up on the spin e prior to putttng the. Apr 17, 2018 I've never seen a 'drill press' this beastly with a dovetail column for the table, and a leadscrew for Z adjustment. Neutraface 2 font free download. It's almost an R-8 short of being a small mill. I have no idea the model, and have been unable to locate anything Walker-Turner of this caliber on the net. Here's a picture of the drill press. Thoughts and comment appreciated.
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I have located an old (40's or 50's vintage) Walker-Turner Mill/Drill that I may want to acquire. Can you tell me anything about this device? What should I look for before purchasing?
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To my knowledge W/T never made a mill/drill comb. May be wrong. But that one is a production drill press. No adjustable table that I can see. You have to crank the head down. Looks like a #3 morse taper extended quill.
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To my knowledge Walker Turner never made a mill/drill. Looks like a production type drill press. No movable table, extended quill. Plus I think the head cranks down. Looks like a #3 Morse taper.
I posted this a few minutes ago and it appeared, then vanished! Who knows what's going on?
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THIS IS A 20' DRILL PERSS, NOT A MILL. iT IS IN GOOD SHAPE, JUST BY LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS. IT LOOKS LIKE THE ORIGINAL PAINT AND WAS PROBABALY MADE IN THE 50'S OF BEFORE. THESE WILL LAST ANOTHER 50 YEARS. GOOD LUCK. - Plastic
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THIS IS A 20' DRILL PERSS, NOT A MILL. iT IS IN GOOD SHAPE, JUST BY LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS. IT LOOKS LIKE THE ORIGINAL PAINT AND WAS PROBABALY MADE IN THE 50'S OF BEFORE. THESE WILL LAST ANOTHER 50 YEARS. GOOD LUCK. aLSO, THE CARDINAL SPEED VISE, SITTING ON TABLE COSTS ABOUT $300.00 NEW WHEN THEY WERE MADE. yOU SHOULS LOOK TO SEE IF THERE IS REUNOUT IN THE SPINDLE, BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO REPLACE BEARINGS IF SO. tHE EASIESTLOW TECH WAY TO CHECK IT OUT, DILL A HOLE AND CHECK IT OUT WITH A DRILL BLANK FOR ACCURACY.
YOU MAY ALSO REMOVE THE CARDINAL VISE AND LOOK AT THE TABLE FOR HOLES BORED THROUGH IT. IF THE TABLE IS CLEASN, THAT MAY TELL YOU, THE PREVIOUS OWNER(S) TOOK RELATIVELY GOOD CARE OR IT. - Plastic
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Thanks for the responses. The owner is asking $250 for the machine and I thought that it might be a little high. My thoughts were that I could add a small milling table and use the machine to inlet fiberglass and composite rifle stocks. The largest cuts I would be making are around 1.5 X 8 inches and an inch deep. No need for real precision as the actions would be bedded using marine-tex and then glued in with JB weld. If you folks think that this is a bad idea then I will keep looking for a low cost mill. I still might buy this one and use it for it's original drilling purpose. - Cast Iron
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That's a extremely good price for a 20' w-t drill. But be aware the bearings are special and are expensive(A little over $100 a pair i believe) because they have a long extension off the bearing shaft( about an inch). If you have a lathe you could get normal bearings and make an extension shaft though.
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I would run, not walk, back down and buy that for $250 - but I would use it for drilling only. You'll find out why if you attempted to mill with a Morse taper spindle with no drawbar - even wood, well, would scare me :-0
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I have the same drill press, the first machine tool I ever got.
Its a really nice little piece, well worth $250. - Plastic
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I never thought about the possibility of eating a cutter that came flying out of a morse taper! Thank you for that insight. Now you can tell that I'm have zero experience running a milling machine!
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I agree with Maxim 100 % - except mine was the second machine tool I aquired !
Sean - are bearings still available anywhere ?
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A drill press never was designed for the kind of side loads running milling cutters would impose on the spindle. It is also not rigid enough for milling.
As crazy as it sounds, people who did know better tired doing this at the powerplant I work at. Prior to my arrival at the powerplant, they had been using a Johannson radial drill press to run end mill cutters. The material being milled was 'Micarta' or 'reinforced phenolic' plastic. The parts being made were segments of mechanical shaft packing rings, about a 25' inside radius and 30' outside radius. Since the powerplant mahcine shop did not have a vertical mill, the supervisor way back in the 1970's decided to use the radial drill as a milling machine. It had a number 5 MT spindle taper. The reinforced phenolic material was bandsawed to within perhaps 1/8' of finished dimensions. It was then mounted on a fixture on the table of the radial drill which enable the correct radius to be milled.
I transferred to this powerplant in August of 1989. I first saw the crazy lashup on the Johansson drill. Packing ring segements were milled maybe twice a year. I asked about the lashup and the effects of milling in a radial drill. The answer I got was something like: 'It's only phenolic, and light cuts, and we don't do it all that often.' By that time the Johannson drill's spindle taper was so messed up that they had drilled and tapped it for setscrews to keep the arbors from dropping out of it. The fit of the quill into the head of the drill was so loose that there was no adjustment left to take up the slop. On any drilling job, the quil orbitted in the head. Of course, certain other people running large diameter hole saws in that drill didn't help matters either. I ran the Johannson a few times for 'government jobs'. I had the work dogged solidly to the table, ram and column locks on, and running perhaps 1' diameter bits, the orbit of the quill in the spindle was horrendous.
I do not consider the Johannson radial drill to be much of a machine tool, even on a good day. As radial drills go, it is light duty, and not a 'traditional' radial drill design. Over the next few years at the powerplant, I made several changes in the machine shop. I bought a Bridgeport Series II Special, a Birdgeport with a heavier mainframe and heavier tables. We started milling the packing ring segments on the Bridgeport using a large Troyke rotary table and tooling plate. We ditched that idea of late, having converted the bridgeport to CNC. As for the Johannson Drill, it got replaced by a factory reconditioned Carlton Radial Drill. The word is out in our powerplant: no one runs hole saws in any drill presses, and milling gets done on milling machines.
The Walker Turner drill you are interested in buying is a fine drill press. To keep it that way, use it only as a drill press. No milling, however light it might seem, and no running hole saws.
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Message received. If I do buy it, I will be buying a drill press. Thanks for everyone's input.
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I looked at the machine this afternoon. It is in remarkably good shape. All of the paint is original, no dings or dents. The only thing that I could find that was not functional was the return spring. It has a General Electric 1 hp motor (110-220) 1740 rpm. I grabbed the spindle and could not feel any play. I tried and tried pushing and pulling in different directions but just could not feel any movement at all. The vice bolted to the bottom is not the original. It appears to be an off-shore low end piece. There is an L bracket mounted to the base that extends out the right side of the base about 4 inches or so. It has a grease fitting and a hole that looks about 1/2 inch in diameter. No idea what that was for. I think that this device would need some kind of table to be an asset to a workshop. It is still available and will probably go for a lot less than the original asking price. Does anyone have any pictures of their tables?
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I could never find the lower spindle bearing for my 20' walker-turner drill press I tried few bearing houses. what I did is cut the spindle to take a bearing that you can get I will get the # later. and something I found out is that W-T fit the quills to the heads on these drill presses I have 3 quill assy. that I have rounded up and not one is even close in size to the one in the drill press . some thing I found out is that a spindle out of a 20' Delta-Rockwell I think 200 series drill press will go right in a W-T 20' 1100 series quill housing Ken
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What does the bottom of your WT look like? I have the feeling that there is some kind of rotary table or at least something that is missing from this machine. (see the picture in the first post) There are slots in the form of an X in the base, and a small vise bolted down to it. What is supposed to be there?
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I was going to comment on that. It looks like it's missing the whole table assembly, which clamps to the column anywhere between the base and the head. I'm pretty sure that even the bench mount models of this series of WT drill presses have both a table and a base. That ear sticking off the side of the base is for the elevating screw that cranks the table up and down. So, the table on this machine most likely got broken, and then discarded. With the head lowered down and a vise bolted to the base, it's still a useable drill press, but is more of a hassle to raise the head for drill length clearance.
I have two similar vintage WT 15's in my shop, and they're good 'light industrial' duty drill presses. When I say 'light industrial' I mean that they're good industrial duty quality, but they're made for drilling holes 1/2' and smaller. - Plastic
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There is a rack along the entire length of the back side of the column. The head will crank all the way down to the base, so elevating the table would seem rather redundant to me. (I don't know - just guessing) This thing has a one horse motor on it, and weighs in excess of 180 pounds. It does have a half inch chuck on it but there is also a bucket of large drills with morse taper shanks. Many are larger than 3/4. The other thing that I don't understand (showing my ignorance again) is the long quill. That must have a purpose, but I don't know what it is.
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My floor model W-T of the same vintage had a threaded spindle, therefore couldn't use MT drills. You might want to confirm the spindle of yours to be sure. If you dont see the window in the quill where the knockout drift would be inserted, that's the tip-off it's the threaded type, a disadvantage, unless using the chuck only is okay. Otherwise a great machine.
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It does have the 'knock out' slot on the spindle and the end of the shank is visible in the slot.
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Ran across this in my travels, and the guy is wanting $500.
I've never seen a 'drill press' this beastly with a dovetail column for the table, and a leadscrew for Z adjustment. It's almost an R-8 short of being a small mill.
I have no idea the model, and have been unable to locate anything Walker-Turner of this caliber on the net.
Here's a picture of the drill press. Thoughts and comment appreciated. I really enjoy old iron, and this doesn't seem like too bad of a deal.
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Single Phase, step pulleys for speed, 1/2' chuck, coolant channels on table, dovetail column
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Grab it .. and growl if anyone tries to take it away from you!Originally Posted by steamandsteelRan across this in my travels, and the guy is wanting $500.
I've never seen a 'drill press' this beastly with a dovetail column for the table, and a leadscrew for Z adjustment. It's almost an R-8 short of being a small mill.
I have no idea the model, and have been unable to locate anything Walker-Turner of this caliber on the net.
Here's a picture of the drill press. Thoughts and comment appreciated. I really enjoy old iron, and this doesn't seem like too bad of a deal.
Specs that I know of:
Single Phase, step pulleys for speed, 1/2' chuck, coolant channels on table, dovetail column
Thanks for any and all help
Most W-T are so much lighter they are classed as 'woodworking' DP. They aren't (only).
My smaller early 1940's benchtop one was but $90, early 1970's, lives on a diet of steel more than anything else, still makes good holes.
Knock wood, anyway, as I have about four dozen 3/8' & 1/2' holes to drill in 1/2' thick A36 by Saturday AM.
They punch enough above their apparent weight that Kearney & Trecker bought and owned them for a time.
This one is rather rare, and much stronger than their average round-column-only ones. - CatManHot Rolled
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It's probably worth the $500 if you're in the market for a good drill press. Of course if he'd take $450, then it's more likely it would definitely be worth $450.
The head is likely in same realm as any Walker Turner or Clausing, etc. of that design. The column, base, and table will set this one apart though. And likely make up the difference in value.
Interesting machine. I've never seen one either. - Hot Rolled
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I'm gonna take a stab at this and say that it's a standard walker turner drill head on the body of a larger drill press like an Allen or similar. It's still probably a decent machine if you need a drill press, I always find the weak point of them are the stand/table.
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X2 - by no means an expert, but that type base is indicative of an earlier generation of DPs; it doesn't look like any W-T I've ever seen. A close examination of where the column mounts to the base might reveal any previous holes.Originally Posted by BlazemasterI'm gonna take a stab at this and say that it's a standard walker turner drill head on the body of a larger drill press like an Allen or similar. It's still probably a decent machine if you need a drill press, I always find the weak point of them are the stand/table.
Avey was another manufacturer of similar base machines.
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Blazemaster and Packard V8,Originally Posted by PackardV8X2 - by no means an expert, but that type base is indicative of an earlier generation of DPs; it doesn't look like any W-T I've ever seen. A close examination of where the column mounts to the base might reveal any previous holes.
Avey was another manufacturer of similar base machines.
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Thank you for your expertise. It sure does look close compared to the picture you posted. People like you and posts like this make me glad that PM exists, as I would have never known where else to look or ask for info.
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I definitely did jump on this deal with both steel-toed feet. Worked the price down a bit, and will pick it up next week. No play whatsoever in the spindle, table is in fair condition, and zero vibration in the unit when running. Dead quiet as well - no belts slapping or odd sounds.
I will post some pictures next week. Would proper protocol be to use this existing thread to post pictures, or create a new one?
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Agree it isn't like any W-T I've seen, either. Mindful of some of the features of a Fosdick and certain other Nordic country goods, rather. Also the 'Wolf' DP had similarities. Anyway, glad to hear that you bought it!Originally Posted by steamandsteelBlazemaster and Packard V8,
Thank you for your expertise. It sure does look close compared to the picture you posted. People like you and posts like this make me glad that PM exists, as I would have never known where else to look or ask for info.
To all,
I definitely did jump on this deal with both steel-toed feet. Worked the price down a bit, and will pick it up next week. No play whatsoever in the spindle, table is in fair condition, and zero vibration in the unit when running. Dead quiet as well - no belts slapping or odd sounds.
I will post some pictures next week. Would proper protocol be to use this existing thread to post pictures, or create a new one?
Thank you to each and every one of you for your input on this machine. Every reply was read, and appreciated.
Same thread should do UNLESS. a show-and-tell of a major rebuild is undertaken. Condition so far of this one doesn't sound as if you will need to do that. - Cast Iron
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Would love to see more pics. A very interesting machine. I do think it is a W-T head on another stand.. but wow what a stand!!!Originally Posted by MonarchistAgree it isn't like any W-T I've seen, either. Mindful of some of the features of a Fosdick and certain other Nordic country goods, rather. Also the 'Wolf' DP had similarities. Anyway, glad to hear that you bought it!
Same thread should do UNLESS. a show-and-tell of a major rebuild is undertaken. Condition so far of this one doesn't sound as if you will need to do that. - Aluminum
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Well, here's a few pictures for you guys. Got it all set up and it runs pretty smooth. Built a nice handle to raise and lower the table, and it works great for all manner of drilling. Let me know what you think about the base and the whole setup. Also, considering a VFD or some sort of variable speed motor to get rid of most all the belts and brackets on the back, so any recommendations are appreciated.
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Hey all recently got a WT DP. I been around machines for more that 30 yr. I am impressed. Need so help identifying year model etc. NO serial # floor model no crank on column and only 5 speed. Still thinks it is a great machine. Drill had bad run out so removed drill chuck and the taper for the chuck was dinged up bad. Stoned taper and still have .020 run out using indicator on taper. Should I look for bearings in machine or is the .020 the best that I can expect.?????????
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I have a 1-944 drill press and as far as I know it’s 100% original not missing anything ( even cord is old 2 prong). I use this drill press weekly, my question is , should I not be using is it rare and worth money? It’s a little big for what I need it for, and am thinking of selling bc it’s going to take up to much room for what I need. I received all my grandfathers tools he bought brand new in early 40’s and I use them constantly! U can not get quality like that today, these tools are over 80 years old and work amazing.
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Somebody took a W-T drill press head off of a multi head machine and installed it onto that base. It's not unusual to see setups like that in industrial settings. I've been to a quite a few machine shop auctions where a set-up like that is being sold. One shop had a four head Leland-Gifford drill press where only the base and two of the heads were original. The other two heads were a Wilton and, IIRC, a Delta Rockwell. No matter. At the end of the day it will still drill holes. Congrats. You just happen to have a much better base than what originally came with the W-T drill press.
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Ra.kessler--how are you measuring the runout? You should certainly be doing better than .020. Measuring at the taper or with chuck on and a bit in the chuck?
Rwf77--W/T's are certainly great old drill presses but not rare collectors' items. They should be used for their intended purpose, kept clean and lubricated and they will be fine.
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