Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Drill Press Modification!
Adam upgrades his shop’s powermatic drill press with a crank to raise and lower the table, but the crank he has isn’t made for his particular model drill press. The restoration and install of the crank goes by fast and works out well, but it ends in the unexpected breaking of another part. Adam’s plan for an upgrade quickly pivot to a disassembly and repair!
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Not sure you can but if you can remove the spindle itself (the part the chuck seats to) im guessing its a morris taper #2 with a jt 33 head grizzly has a one piece unit from south bend that would eliminate your need for the threaded part of the chuck. Its milled as one piece.i have one on my grizzly drill press and love it.
https://www.grizzly.com/products/South-Bend-Keyless-Integral-Chuck-MT-2-1-32-1-2-/SB1378
The best sites for manuals and information about older, American made shop machines are http://www.vintagemachinery.org and http://www.owwm.org.
I’m a member of the Hobby Machinist forum. There’s been a thread started just this Monday about adding various table lifts to drill presses:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/drill-press-table-lifter.86021/#post-767611
I posted a link to your video there.