Ultradog MN
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- Location
- Twin Cities
I have a spare drill press that I bought cheap because the base is cracked.
My old pal Kenny kinda hinted that he could use it at home.
So over the past month I have been collecting the things to rig it up for him.
Being a bottom feeder I hafta spend more time looking than I do buying.
The first thing we needed was to make a phase converter to run it.
I found a used 5 hp motor, a surplus enclosure box, ordered a kit with the gizmos for inside the box and made a frame yesterday to mount everything on.
He's a little tight on real estate in his garage so I made it so everything will sit on the base.
Yeah I know, I could have bought a VFD to power the drill but where is the fun in having a shop if you don't make stuff in it?
Besides, those VFDs are all made in China and I just don't wanna do China stuff.
The next step will be to pull the column off the base and weld it.
Shouldn't be hard to do.
Maybe I will make a post about that one of these days.
My old pal Kenny kinda hinted that he could use it at home.
So over the past month I have been collecting the things to rig it up for him.
Being a bottom feeder I hafta spend more time looking than I do buying.
The first thing we needed was to make a phase converter to run it.
I found a used 5 hp motor, a surplus enclosure box, ordered a kit with the gizmos for inside the box and made a frame yesterday to mount everything on.
He's a little tight on real estate in his garage so I made it so everything will sit on the base.
Yeah I know, I could have bought a VFD to power the drill but where is the fun in having a shop if you don't make stuff in it?
Besides, those VFDs are all made in China and I just don't wanna do China stuff.
The next step will be to pull the column off the base and weld it.
Shouldn't be hard to do.
Maybe I will make a post about that one of these days.

