Bill Noble wrote:
a friend of mine has two Crafstman drill presses with 2 3/4 inch columns.
He acquired from some mystery source a raising mechanism I just helped him
install on one of them - I've never seen one like it - it consists of a gear
assembly, an acme screw, and a bottom pillow block. the bottom pillow block
can be clamped to the column, and with the top (gear assembly) and the table
loose, you can turn the crank which through a gear rotates the acme screw
and raise/lower the table - every other unit I've seen has a rack rather
than an acme screw - so, for the group

1. anyone know who might have made this thing (there is no label on it, it's
far from new - probably pre WWII to my eyes - can't find it in Sears
catalogs, doesn't say Sears or Crafstman on it

The Clausing Drill presses at school has that kind of evelator.
The coulmns are a lot biger though.
Sure is nice. Maybe I'll think about designing one for my old
Craftsman press. :-)
...lew...