Hello All. I'm new here and wanted to share some pictures of my newest piece of shop equipment. I located this Champion Blower And Forge Drill Press this past weekend. Model Number 203 1/2. All i have been able to find out about it is that most of the drill presses were Post Drills. This one is a stand alone model and I believe it was originally belt driven. It stands somewhere around 6 feet tall.
Sometime in the past, the previous owner added an electric motor and transmission to it. The story I was told was that he couldn't get the motor to drill slow enough, so he added the transmission at the top.
I would be interested in finding out more information on how this drill press originally looked and if anyone has any original catalog pictures, that would be most helpful! Thanks and look forward to participating in this board!
I did find a picture of a 203 post drill on the internet that is close to what I have, but post mounted and not as big as my unit.
