"New" Dunlap "Craftsman" drill press project for my shop!

One of the main items missing from my shop at this time is a decent drill press. Now, due to my space constraints, I'm not left with many options are far as bigger machines go! I ran across someone a while back that posted a neat photograph of a restored South Bend drill press. These are nice little machines and pretty accurate along with being able to get them in a bench top model! I've been keeping an eye out for something, but there isn't much around in the usual places such as Craigslist and eBay. I didn't want to spend much money ether being that I'm still a Grad student after all!

About a week ago I was perusing Craigslist and ran across some poor listing with some bad pictures of a little Dunlap bench top drill press! I wasn't sure what it was exactly, but after doing a little bit of research it turns out that it is a Craftsman private label made by someone else for Sears and they slapped a Dunlap tag on it. most likely an Atlas, but there were a few other manufacturers for this machine as the years went on.

I went to take a look and ended up taking it home for $35! Now that I have it home, I was able to look at it a little further and figure out what was going on because it has a few issues. Cosmetically it's in very nice shape and a good paint job and a little buffing will make this thing look new again. However, the motor does have a funky clicking noise which may be a bad bearing, and the spindle sleeve and spindle drive pulley has been wallowed out!

New project on the lathe! In the coming weeks I'll be taking it all apart and showing how I repair that sleeve on my YouTube Channel! Other than that it is in pretty good shape! Everything is there, the bed is almost perfect and no other parts are broken or missing. I will need to add a on/off switch and maybe a light to this guy!

Keep an eye out in the comming weeks for this repair and the restoration of this little drill press! It's not quite the capacity I was looking for, but it will do the job for now!