Craftsman 150 Drill press restoration. [lots of pictures]

Hey there I'm new here, I recently found that I have a lot of free time on my hands and decided to restore an old drill press I found on craigslist for cheap. Thought I'd share with you guys and hopefully learn a few things in the process.

Here it is.




The model number is 113.24501, from what I've found this means it was made in 1965.


No arc of shame


A close up of the chuck


This is the motor that came with it don't know much about it, it looks old enough to be original. The cord on it is pretty short ~3 feet long. and it doesn't have a switch, just plug it in and go.

Here is a close up of the motors info plate.



I followed this thread http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51384 for disassembling most of it.

One difference between mine and envintho's is that mine doesn't have a hand knob(9) instead there was nothing in that spot, but after looking around I found a little pin hole and then looked inside and found a pin that the spring had a loop around, and with a little push on the spring loop it sprung off and the assembly slid right out.
sorry no pics of the process but you can see the pin in this photo after everything was out.



At this point I have everything taken out of the housing but the quill and pulley.

Here's all the little parts.

And all the big parts.



At this point everything that I've read says that the quill should slide out with a bit of a pull, but I some how got it stuck and its not budging from the pulley assembly. I've tried banging on it a bit to see if that could free it but its not budging, any advice would be greatly appreciated
here are a few pictures of the spindle pulley assembly that wont come off.

Thanks. forgot to put that in.

I took the quill housing/spindle assembly out before I removed the upper pulley.
Guess it does not matter.
Assuming you found the 2 small machine screws on the sides of the casting that holds the upper pulley in. Some have talked about special snap ring pliers trying to get the large snap ring out under the pulley bearings. On both of mine, it was not necessary to remove this large snap ring...ever. Take out the 2 machine screws and pull the bearings out together. then remove the small snap ring that holds the bearings on the aluminum pulley.

Those splines from the main spindle shaft should easily disengage from the pulley. If it does not. Put the pulley back in the housing and push the quill spindle all the way back up in the housing. Look for any mushrooming of the top of the shaft. Maybe the top of the splines are damaged for some reason. I feel that the aluminum pulley splines are the weak link. If you force the spindle shaft out of the pulley, you will likely damage the pulley splines.

BTW
If you need bearings.

See my post #1 and #2 here http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188628

Thats it? What the hell?

Nice find and it looks like the previous owner got the restoration work started for you. It appears that one was pretty rusty at one point. The motor you have there is not original. It is actually a good deal older than the drill press. Sears sold these with or without a motor so a good number of them got outfitted with what ever motor was sitting around the garage. I don't know how you intend to use it but you may want to find a Craftsman or other motor of either 1/3 or 1/2 horse power. Many of the Craftsman motors have a switch in the base. The motor should also be fitted with a step pulley in order to give you a variety of speeds.

Sorry, I have no suggestions for the quill. Good luck with it.

Yako3, you did a good thing!