An acquaintance of mine is going through some tough times, and was downsizing some of his stuff, so I wound up buying his drill press from him. Here’s the first photo I took when I got it into my garage:
It’s a Craftsman 150 Drill press with the Vari-Slo attachment — it’s a continuously variable speed control that utilizes a reeves drive to alter spindle speed. It’s a neat piece of kit, and is apparently a fairly rare attachment. The whole thing was made in the early 1960s, by King-Seeley Corporation (a division of General Motors) in Michigan. Continue reading