• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Fobco. They don't make 'em like they used to.

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I bought this Fobco pillar drill in an auction. (Around the £200 mark inc fees).IMG_20240910_165029.jpgIMG_20241003_160908.jpgIMG_20240910_165039.jpgIMG_20241003_160932.jpg

Fully stripped it down, painted, new bearings and belt fitted.

I have to say, you can feel the build quality oozing out when you use it.
I reckon it's next service is due in about 50 years...

Geoff
 
Great result, Geoff. I've just sold a floor standing version, and I agree with you about quality.
 
Really great job there. I have one in my workshop, which is not as pristine as that but still pretty good. They are built to last. You did a lovely job on the table.
 
Lovely job, it looks like it's just come from the factory!

What did you use to fill in the "arc of shame"? Epoxy metal?
 
Trevanion said:
Lovely job, it looks like it's just come from the factory!

What did you use to fill in the "arc of shame"? Epoxy metal?
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Hi,
Thanks for the comment.
"Arc of shame"... I like that. 😁
Yes you're correct, I used JBWeld to fill it in.
 
Excellent job.
I refurbed a Pacera, which was in a similar condition. As you say, you can feel the quality in the operation.
The only 2 things I don't like about mine are:
1: The stepped pulleys are held on by just a grub screw on a flat, rather than a proper Woodruff key, and
2.: There is no rack and pinion for table height adjustment. That is getting more significant as I get older...

I can recommend a magnetic flexi-light to go with it.
EDIT - Just realised you have fitted one!
 
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