... I just saw a drill press at a garage sale for $35(us) I am so tempted to go buy it - I just got paid yesterday. Problem is that I live in a little one bedroom house with my girlfriend. I can just imagine what she would have to say about it when she got home from work tonight and saw it sitting there in the living room..... what to do??? (I think I could fit it in the garage if I moved some of the other junk around.....)
Ditto, thats got to work. I dont know if I can think of anything better. Is it a table top press or a floor standing one?
It's a table top one - but very big. The motor is 1/3 horsepower!!. It has a rubber belt connecting the motor to the drill. The motor has 5 different sized wheels you can put the belt on to control speed. Girlfriend's getting home in about an hour and a half. Will see if I can convince her that it's a good idea. If I get it I will post a picture of it. The old guy selling it says he thinks it's from the 1930s.
Ask yourself this question, do you REALLY need it? Will you regret it later? Is this just a thing to showoff to your friends?
well let see here.... accoding to my calculations as follows: % of girlfirned not ever giving you what you need ever again 12 x 5 wheels it has + 6 days your butt is going to hurt after she gets done chewing it out - 8 dollars in gas in getting to the guyz house and back / the probablility of michael jackson being black 1.005% + the amount of oney which you would like to be spenidng on gas .481 cents (us) x the years it took albert eninstein after the age of 13 to figure out E=MC squared (35 yrs) = .... mur mur carry the one.... .... +/- a few taken by the square root..... equals? ah hah! $35 us dollars ohh and yes you need to get it! it doenst take up that much room!
A benchtop drill press from the 1930s? Is there such a thing? They weren't exactly common back then like they are today (for home use that is). Even still, a 75 year old drill press for $35 is a ****ing ripoff.
Tell her it's for decoration and that you saw the very same thing for $300 at Bombay. Tell her it's the new black.
Hmmm... seventy five year old tools are worth much more than new tools... I'd gladly buy a seventy five year old benchtop drill press for thirty five bucks... You'd love the 1905 truck jack I just found for twenty bucks... makes a great hose rack...
Why are they worth more? Unless it's an antique or something. Yeah, I'd buy it for $35 only because it would be cool to have, but a modern drill press is probably much better in terms of functionality.
What functionality? It holds a drill bit. It spins round and round. It goes up and down..... The motor on it might be the most solid electric motor I have ever seen.
Ok well the reason it is so expensive is well it is is 75 years old and it is still working and is probably made in the u.s.! and at that time u.s. made stuff (goods and machines) were the best on the market our industrial technology was leading back in the days! jsut to sum it up for yah...
