On 2011-07-04, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

It is in good shape, but it's missing the hub and three handles, and the
chuck key. The price was right, though.

This looks like it, but there is no model number on the drill:

http://watchmaking.weebly.com/cameron-164-a.html

Congratulations! This is a particularly nice machine. I have
had one since the early 1970s, where I bought it almost new. A
representative for a local machine tool company came by our lab with a
brand new one to demonstrate for several groups within the lab. I was
the first, and helped him unpack it and set it up. (This was prior to
the clear protective cover, but had the dial indicator and holder as
standard at the time.) And -- the supplied dial indicator was a 0-1"
one, which matches the travel of the head, so the worry about the stops
being set to prevent hitting the stops need not apply.

Anyway -- I was quite impressed with it, and asked him how much
he could sell it to me for after demonstrating it around the lab. His
price was $150.00, which I gladly paid. (I also bought one for our
group, and at least one other was sold that I know of.)

These are the missing parts:

http://watchmaking.weebly.com/upload...07623_orig.jpg
http://watchmaking.weebly.com/upload...ig.jpg?199x324

Hmm ... the handles should be easy enough to make (and you can
buy the ball ends from MSC among other places), but the hub will be a
bit more tricky -- matching the angle which the original had. Can you
get replacement parts from Cameron? (I know that their prices have gone
through the roof since I got mine. :-)

The motor on mine does not use the black thumbscrew from the
left to lock its position -- but rather a setscrew. The post from the
motor which slides into the headstock casting is hinged instead, with a
thumbscrew to lock the hinge. So to change belt positions, you loosen
the thumbscrew, hinge the motor (bottom to the rear, pulley towards the
column) to give slack to change the belts.

The chuck can be replaced with an Albrecht 0-1/8" (0-3mm) with a
J0 taper, and mine actually came with such a chuck. This is a perfect
chuck for the machine.

Mine has a switch on the bottom rear of the motor which has
three positions -- off, a full speed, and a slower speed (resistor in
series). IIRC, the original switch was center off, but it eventually
burned up, and I replaced it with one which I could set up as
off-slow-fast.

But now, I keep it plugged into a speed controller made for a
Dremel, which gives me more reasonable control of speeds.

I also bought 4, 3' 5/8" drill rods for $3.51 each, at a liquidator
that's going out of business.

Hmm ... a bit big for making the feed arms. Good price,
though. :-)

I bought what looks like another precision drill, or mini milling
machine. I haven't been able to identify it, but the price was right.


O.K.

Can you put up an image of the other precision drill somewhere?
Perhaps in the dropbox if you don't have a web site of your own? That
is at http://www.metalworking.com. Click on the bar to give directions
on using the dropbox, then once you have the image(s) there, post the
URL for the dropbox and the name of the image files.

Best of luck with the Cameron.
DoN.

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