How to Restore a Post Drill

This is a Post drill not a drill press. it is designed for metal work though is sometimes used for woodwork. I have restored these in the past here: • How to Restore a Post ...
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[@bernardhill1622]

Loved it..❗Recall it from my High School days in Metalwork Class 1961...could kick my Tail that i didn't have the funds available at the time in 1966 whilst the local Co-op had a shelf littered with them then, never to be seen again..❗😢 Built my entire Borehole Handpump on the Neighbours Drillpress equivalent and have always dreamt of one day acquiring one in particular use & value for Rural Knife Making and Bladesmithing here in Africa..managed to get a good Flypress which costs an Arm & a Leg in this part of the World, but happy as it makes life easier at age 78 for the old arm muscles..❗ Keep up yhe good work ❗👍🏻👏🏻 Shalowm ❗🙇‍♂️🇿🇦

[@fe3613]

Watched the whole thing in anticipation of the post drill pun😁Thanks for the great video and pun!

[@bhazen406]

This makes me miss my old post drill. Got it from my great grandfather and was stolen when I moved. I used mine for everything that needed a hole. I even modified a 3 jaw drill chuck so I could use normal drill bits for drilling steal

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

I enjoyed drilling through a splitting wedge just because. Made me realize how important it was back in the day. The pattern makers for the castings were amazing.

[@mattelias721]

"Oh... left-hand thread..." I have been there too often. Don't feel bad. A thought for you: I've found degreaser solvents work well as weed and plant killers (long story...), so I hope your lawn and hostas are still okay.

[@fundi_mike]

for the final touch, maybe an oil cap for the oiling holes to prevent sawdust/similar getting in.

[@mrkrause3]

Nice job….I was fascinated ……love the Babbitt bearing demonstration!

[@SandyMasquith]

You had me at gizmosity. Did I spell that right? ;). Thanks, James. Great video.

[@kelvinsparks4651]

Good restoration and a striking blue , well done. Your video has given me the encouragement to dig out my old pillar drill and get the handle cranking again lol

[@brendanlangord1687]

Great video. I love tool restorations. Making the old, new and working again is so satisfying.

[@slowrelease395]

Can you do a pre drill restoration at some point?

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

GREAT VIDEO! I have the exact same post drill and seeing your disassembled explanation gives me a lot to work with. Your narration is perfect and seeing the details of each part is so valuable. Mine is mounted and works but is rusty rusty rusty.

[@egbluesuede1220]

ambitious and well executed as always. I really enjoyed watching this reno and learned more than usual. The babbit thing was totally new for me!

[@jasonfaulkner3215]

That is cool I love restoring old tools

[@wwtrkr3189]

Oh, I love this. What a fantastic piece of kit. There's been a couple of unrestored ones around me these past few weeks and I've been eyeing them up. Maybe a project for me soon. Looks great in the blue, too!

[@egonmilanowski]

I was unable to source Evaporust locally as well. I eventually bought a 5 gallon and 3 gallon bucket online and it was worth it. Nice restoration. I have a post drill and love it.

[@robertspeer]

Fleet farm carries it, as well as many parts stores Although it is cheaper on amazon

[@lynxg4641]

James, that's an excellent restoration, looks absolutely amazing, such a cool, old tool. Gizmosity, definitely needs to be added to all official dictionaries :-D Have to say, the left hand thread bit had me LMAO, but not at you, but with you, because if you've been tinkering long enough, at some point that's happened to all of us :-D

[@UserNameAnonymous]

Nobody in my area sells evaporust, but you can get it on amazon for a reasonable price

[@Vikingwerk]

I just got a post drill at a estate auction, looking forward to this process.

[@JackFright]

And another very cool restoration. Thanks!

[@MCsCreations]

Pretty amazing work, James! 😃 It turned out fantastic! And... Blue! 😬 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@AdrianDecaux]

What an amazing restauration

[@kencarlile1212]

I literally yelped when I saw you using the dovetail saw with the handle in your hand...

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

Love it, well worth the effort.

[@garethmcmahon9769]

Excellent James, thanks.

[@michaelgreen429]

That was another good video. So much fun to watch.

[@chrisp7957]

Very nice video and restoration

[@robinalexander5772]

Awesome. I refurbished a union drill press out of England, really good fun. cheers from Tasmania

[@bobbabcock3847]

Now that is officially a gizmo!

[@maineiachomestead7550]

I have a Silver No1 (ca 1911) that I'll get to use one of these days, after I get a shop to hang it in.

[@cbryantbear6498]

Thank you!!!

[@Desert-Tan-Whiskey]

New subscriber here. One of those post drill press is on my wish list 👍. I love that lathe as well. Great video

[@tomjoseph1444]

Kroil! You should get a set of 8 point sockets as well. I have one of these that is in decent shape. I have never messed with it because I would have no where to put it when done.

[@WoodWorkTherapy]

My father the other day offered one of these to me. Looked in the same condition as yours. Funny you dropped this video the next day. LOL

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

And I told him here for. I have a mind reader lol

[@WoodWorkTherapy]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo ROFL!

[@TheDistur]

Nice drill!

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Lots of fun!

[@matthewbrady5214]

You could give the other one to Rex. He does some metal work.

[@marB84]

Very cool. But instead of the Babbit, why not use a bronze or brass bushing?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

the problem with an insert bushing is that the casting would need to be exact or it would need to be exactly drilled out after the face to line up with the other parts. It was much easier for the factory to poor a babbet and not care about how accurate the alinement is on the casting. In my case, the shaft needed to be about 1/16" out of center on the cast hole.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Now I wanna see you restore a PRE-DRILL! 😆

[@budlloyd3127]

super cool! another great video good sir!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Congrats on first!

[@budlloyd3127]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo haha thanks!

[@leecarrell6952]

For the handle, rather than sawing, you could split the handle. I believe this was how bit brace handles were done. You'd turn the piece long and split it from the end with a chisel, then cut it to length, removing the portion the chisel had marred. By splitting rather than sawing, the two pieces would be nearly seamless when joined. It's probably easier than sawing, too!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

If your grain is straight and clean that is the way to go a lot of the time.

[@JoshIbbotson]

Loved this so much, but really wanted to see it used at the end :( even on a piece of scrap! Well done though, fantastic job :)

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I would have liked to do as well. Unfortunately the truck didn't come in in time. It's a pretty rare adapter to grab.

[@skoomasteve6144]

I see... Thanks for the Video!

[@PeterSchmiedeskamp]

I think the scariest thing in this build for me would be knowing how paranoid to be about cleaning up lead shavings. Super cool restoration!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Lead shavings are not a problem at all. It is injection you want to be careful of. So don't eat it.

[@PeterSchmiedeskamp]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo But they look so delicious… those dull metal curls… 🤤

[@charlesmckinley29]

Are there any drawings of the chuck these use? Mine still has the chuck but it is not working. Thank you for the demonstration on how to get it apart and back together.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

The chucks were added later. The original on most just has a 1/2" hole with a set screw.

[@charlesmckinley29]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo thank you

[@frro28]

Very nice, I also have a post drill, but the flywheel sits on the top, it has a more modern chuck and stands on a pedestal. How does your wedding ring survives? I had to remove mine after a year or so because the wear was alarming!

[@kurtandrews7450]

Nice!

[@davidgagnon2849]

Do you have to restore a Pre-Drill before moving onto the Post-Drill?

[@johnmm]

i believe a post drill is the predecessor of the drill press: no motor and gears that bring the unit down instead of a motor.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It is a cousin. There was also a drill press. This was intended for metal. Where as the drill press was designed for wood.

[@lauram9076]

This was awesome to watch, I learned a few things! I've restored things like old vises or hand tools that were also caked with oil and gunk, and it's really fun to see the item underneath come to life. I'm wondering though, why didn't you put a piece of plywood or cardboard on top of your bench? Gonna take some elbow grease to clean that up! I was also wondering if Sarah yelled at you for spraying cleaner and oil residue all over her plants next to the driveway. LOL

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks. LOL those are my plants. I am the one that does the gardening here. with the layers of paste wax and BLO on my bench it wipes off really easily so no need for anything on it.

[@lauram9076]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Well I'm glad to hear you won't get in trouble for the plants! lol I didn't think about your BLO and wax on the bench, that does make it easy. I'll have to remember that when I finish mine!

[@richardgroom988]

Just had to get in a Dad joke at the end, couldn't resist could you.

[@mrstandfast2212]

That's a nice job, very well done. If you do another, or indeed any old machinery, make your life a whole lot easier by using a penetrating fluid for a couple of days before you wield your spanners. In the UK we have Plusgas which has great capillary action seeping into the threads etc, and I'm sure you'll have similar products over the pond. It makes dismantling a pleasure, and also loosens all the caked-on grease allowing it to be easily brushed away. WD40 is good, but it's more of a moisture displacement fluid than a penetrating oil. Once again a great job, I enjoyed watching it.

[@justinwoods240]

You have 1 or 2 finishes boiled linseed oil for wood and that blue for your metal finish 😂 but looks really good. That other drill I think hand tool rescue would like to restore it.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

LOL that is about right!

[@vasky22]

I'm a latecomer to this video, but what a neat drill. I'll be honest, it is very evident you didn't hang the parts when painting, as it seems that you have a lot of undersprayed areas. Next time, hang parts so you can spin them and get at them from the left and right.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I used to have a hanging booth in the old shop. But I do it so little here that I really don't want the space and setting up a booth to protect from overspray takes a lot more work.

[@HandlebarWorkshops]

Nice job! You kind of touch on it around 18:00, but how do you prevent flash rust from the wire brush or sandblasting phase to the paint phase? I've done a few restorations and by the time I finish wire wheeling the last part, the first part will already have rusted. I've taken to spraying things down with WD-40 then cleaning it with Simple Green just before painting. Is there a better way to do it?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Usually the wire wheel imparts enough oil to the surface that there isn't a problem with flash rust on that. As to the sandblasting as long as they stay dry you should be good. But if you're in a high humidity environment there's not much you can do. If you hit it with WD-40 or an oil then the paint isn't going to adhere well to it. A little bit of flash rust before a self-etching primer is not a problem. The self-etching primer will take care of that.

[@TOTHEPOINT82]

Wonder where that wrench came from lol. Great video

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Lol. One is an original and one is direct from hand tool rescue's hands.

[@marvinatfest7006]

It's colloquial name is a monkey wrench. And if it had a bent offset handle, it would be either a left-handed monkey wrench or a right-handed monkey wrench depending upon the offset. Left-handed monkey wrenches were used for, among other things, tightening axle nuts.

[@johnbianchi6430]

Very nice restoration. But, that blue! I can't imagine any wife being upset as the smell of hot asphaltum wafts from her oven while you dry the Japanning.

[@ricos1497]

What a lovely machine. What would the wood equivalent of one of these be? I'd love to have one hanging on my wall.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

There really isn't a wood equivalent directly. You would get a drill press but those didn't come about until power tools became common. The hand tool equivalent is a brace and bit and drill a hole.

[@ricos1497]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo that's what I thought, but I've been searching eBay for holes for months now and I haven't seen any.

[@joeldcanfield_spinhead]

@5:00 aaaarrrrgh I hate it when that happens

[@Youzack1]

Nobody carry’s evaporust around me either… it’s a bummer

[@MsSme123]

Does anyone know if a drill like this could be used for wood? Seems the bit goes around at the same speed a bit brace does, it one of those egg beater types…?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

That's why I use it for most of the time. It doesn't work well with an auger but you can manually advance the depth and it works very well.

[@OuroborosArmory]

Need to find me one of these… for metalworking… how much are you selling the other one for? It would be great for my channel/shop

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

the problem is not selling it but getting it to someone. as the shipping would be almost twice the value of the tool.

[@OuroborosArmory]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo what state are you in?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Rockford IL

[@thejoestays]

Is this a pre drill press post drill?

[@kellanaldous7092]

I mean, this is all well and good, but what if you need to PRE-drill something. Rimshot! xD

[@ronaldrvvanhook1437]

PB Blaster ?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

here you go. amzn.to/43Zvudv

[@tomeoftheancient2225]

Do you know the manufacturer of this post drill?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Unfortunately I do not. There is no writing or stamping on it anywhere. I haven't found one quite the same as this one to be able to know. But they were a lot of manufacturers of them back in the day.

[@TheTrashologist]

How much do you want for the other one?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

The problem is shipping. It would be over 150lb and that means freight. So around $200+ in just shipping. But I will probably bring it to one of the MWTCA meets here soon.

[@ryanstieglitz8077]

Comment down below

[@laroseauxboisrosewoodwoodw8585]

Ok Ok i got it rong A POST DRILL 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️ Hope you can buy your self a ratchet set but you managed well so maybe not 🤔 Any way loved your jokes and of corse your restoration 👏👍🏼 I’m sure your wife asked many time to clean your greace of your hands before toutching her lollll

[@ronstuder7643]

Over the years I have found that much labor and frustration can be eliminated by soaking such items in diesel oil for a week or two, then allowing to air-dry for another week before disassembly. Large items can be wrapped in burlap and drenched in diesel also.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

19th.

[@RaaghavWoodWorks]

Violent manipulation 😆😆🤣🤣🤣

[@danescholl7184]

Why not add a nice thick layer of enamel, after going through such work, and did a beautiful job restoring, by the way. I love the babet bearing job; but the paint was not thick enough. you can see primer through the finish, that's not gonna hold up.

[@standswithfish]

Another one of your boring videos. Of course I'm gonna watch it! I picked up one of those a few years ago in decent shape, had no idea what it was for (was only 20 bucks). Mine is in useable condition, just have to find a post and beam building project!