The Home Machinist!

As to the second paragraph of your reply, with the upmost respect and sincerity, I thank you for your words of advice. I was ironically able to get everything back together and working and will post a video here shortly if far if the website allows

To be perfectly honest when I say novice, i’m being utterly sincere. Now, I was actually up considerably late last night, attempting to put most of it back together and I got a working believe it or not. As for the gearbox your box on speaking of would be the actual spindle attachment on top of that...

So not too long ago about a year ago my son was moving into this new home, well new to him and he has this old shed out in the backyard. Within the shed I found this really scary looking drill press it’s stood at approximately 7 feet tall 6 1/2 maybe. It had the look of, War of the Worlds, it remind...