"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message ...

I have an old Walker-Turner bench-top drill press, ...

... I also have a Harbor Freight mill-drill, which ... works pretty well
as a drill press,...

WAIT A MINUTE! You have a W-T and a HF and you are considering keeping
the HF and selling the W-T!? That is absolutely, totally, wrong. Somebody
give that guy a dope slap. Yeah, you will get a lot more for the W-T,
because it's BETTER!

The relationship between HF and W-T is this: you get a HF first, because
it's cheaper and you can't afford more. Then later you get rid of it and
get a W-T. You don't ever get rid of a W-T and keep a HF.

Do I make myself clear?

BG

Bob

Trust me, I really do understand this relationship, which is why I got the
HF *mill*-drill, looking for a milling machine. As I said, it's crap as a
milling machine (for example, the lead screws on the X-Y table are 6 TPI -
man, is that a giant PITA!), so I got the Rong Fu as an upgrade. However,
as a drill press, it's pretty good, because it's more solid than most (the
quill's a bit beefier than the W-T), and it's got a column jack to increase
the vertical drilling range. Also, it has more speeds than the W-T,
although they're not quite as easy to get to (the W-T has no belt guard).
And the X-Y table is really handy, as long as I want to do things in 1/6"
increments...

As I said, I'm sort of on the fence about selling it; checking what else is
out there, it seems like it might go for as much as $500 or so. More than
the money though, I just hate to have it sitting around unused, and there's
always the space issue. Damn, I just don't know...
~~
Mark Moulding