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I'm not sure where to start, so I'll start at the beginning.
I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I hopped onto craigslist a week ago to waste some time. I ended up finding an old drill press listed for $75. I have been wanting a floor model for a while, but was too cheap to spend money on one since I could get by with my little table top unit.
"To make a long story short"...
I am taking apart my new drill press and replacing the bearings. I have worked on a lot of MVs, and machinery, and other assorted things, so when I say I am amazed at the level of filth on this drill press, be assured it is nasty and no fun to work with. The fact that its kinda cold here makes it an "inside" project. Every time I touch it, I need to wash with massive amounts of Dawn dish soap to clean my hands. I even need to clean the carpets now.
Well I decided it would be a good idea to wash this sucker off. Where else can you wash something real well, but in the shower!? Things started out ok, grime was flowing down the drain better than I could have hoped for. Then once the outside was done, I started getting inside the head and the passageways where the quill and other assorted machined surfaces are.
WTF?!
I have never seen so much black crud, swarf and turds fall out of a machine like this! Even better was I accidentally stepped in some and now have shards of metal embedded in my foot! Sure enough, they had some of those black dingle-berrys attached and now every step left black "foot prints" all over the shower base. So now I have an in-describable mess at hand. It took me over an hour from this point to wrap the drill head in a towel and set it out of the shower, pull the shards out of my feet(both feet by this point), wash the walls (I hadn't noticed I splattered with grime) down, and push the grime and blood down the drain.
Sometimes it pays to put a little forward thought into what you are planning to do. Let me be the first to warn you all, don't wash a drill press head, that is 50+ years old, that came from a factory SOMEWHERE, that just needs a "little" cleaning, in your shower with you.
Thank you, good night.
I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I hopped onto craigslist a week ago to waste some time. I ended up finding an old drill press listed for $75. I have been wanting a floor model for a while, but was too cheap to spend money on one since I could get by with my little table top unit.
"To make a long story short"...
I am taking apart my new drill press and replacing the bearings. I have worked on a lot of MVs, and machinery, and other assorted things, so when I say I am amazed at the level of filth on this drill press, be assured it is nasty and no fun to work with. The fact that its kinda cold here makes it an "inside" project. Every time I touch it, I need to wash with massive amounts of Dawn dish soap to clean my hands. I even need to clean the carpets now.
Well I decided it would be a good idea to wash this sucker off. Where else can you wash something real well, but in the shower!? Things started out ok, grime was flowing down the drain better than I could have hoped for. Then once the outside was done, I started getting inside the head and the passageways where the quill and other assorted machined surfaces are.
WTF?!
I have never seen so much black crud, swarf and turds fall out of a machine like this! Even better was I accidentally stepped in some and now have shards of metal embedded in my foot! Sure enough, they had some of those black dingle-berrys attached and now every step left black "foot prints" all over the shower base. So now I have an in-describable mess at hand. It took me over an hour from this point to wrap the drill head in a towel and set it out of the shower, pull the shards out of my feet(both feet by this point), wash the walls (I hadn't noticed I splattered with grime) down, and push the grime and blood down the drain.
Sometimes it pays to put a little forward thought into what you are planning to do. Let me be the first to warn you all, don't wash a drill press head, that is 50+ years old, that came from a factory SOMEWHERE, that just needs a "little" cleaning, in your shower with you.
Thank you, good night.
