Anyone recognize this?

Flymo

Ha ha, nice one Jason.

There's no id on the castings but the gears are well made, the motor looks to be french. I picked it up for £28 at a local auction, I think I can add tapping to it without too much effort.

Edited By Rockingdodge on 26/03/2019 20:04:07

It's similar to something I picked up. Mine is more like a larger version of the GH Thomas sensitive drill.

Nice reduction gearing

Sorry, I don't recognise the machine.

MichaelG.

I was going to say "table saw" (grey thingy at left) but Jason beat me to it with the Flymo wit.

I wouldn't add too much tapping to it - you'll spoil the paint and chips will fill the tappings!

Seriously, though - you may need to change pulleys and belt to toothed synchronous type, from the round urethane orange one, for tapping anything bigger than about M4. Not a big deal to change it over though, if need be. Try it and see - with the high reduction the round orange belt may be fine.

Hi Rockingdodge, it could be someone has modified the drive to an old belt driven drill press. The castings are not that dissimilar to my Bonds Maximus drill press.

Regards Nick.

I built one of these forty years ago from a set of castings that were advertised as for a "sensitive drill". The foundry was somewhere in Lincolnshire.

Rik

Hi Jeff, I did mean manual tapping, i don't think the motor would have enough torque and there would be little control.

The drive shaft is held by a nut on the top and my thoughts were to make an extended nut and make a handle similar to the G H Thomas Universal Pillar Tool, and by releasing the balance weight I would have a super dooper tapping machine.

Roger

Oh, and I don't eat chips in the workshop 

Edited By Rockingdodge on 27/03/2019 10:13:19