"AAvK" wrote in message
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What kind of drill press? Does it already have a pulley arrangement
to change speeds? A smaller motor pulley, and/or a bigger quill
pulley. And there is also replacing the motor with a slower model.
You generally only have two choices, 1725 and 3450 RPM.
What WON'T work - a light dimmer.


Yeah the dining room light dimmer, let's rip it out and put it on the
motor! WEEEEEE!!!
Sounds like it could be advice from Mad magazine.

It is a cheapy Chinese mini DP, $40 at the Homier traveling tool show.
Something like
4 1/2" center-to-column and with a 4 speed set of pulleys on top. Very
standard and low-
end, can't lock the quill in place. The motor is 1700 rpm (not 1725).
Works well but the
lowest speed has this tacky chafing sound first time I ran it, so, must be
some runout.

I imagine one could place a larger single gulley wheel on the front
spindle, or something
like that...? I know a variable speed DC motor and control board would be
really expensive,
after all the searching I've done.

Almost anything you try to do to this animal is going to cost almost as much
as you paid for the whole thing to begin with. IMHO, you'd be better off to
"cut your losses" and maybe look he

http://www.grizzly.com/products/item...000&sort=price

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Nahmie
The law of intelligent tinkering: save all the parts.