[TriEmbed] Pretty Nice Ryobi Drill Press- Needs Repair

[John Vaughters]

Ok, you know what? now you are just cheating. Like Wow! Awesome Drill. However, I would be much more impressed if you hooked a belt up to the Acura and used that to power the old drill press, THAT! I could get behind. 

Oh BTW, My advice is free, Just sayin'

So if you are looking for these and many other suggestions to waste many hours of your time, I'm your guy. 

John Vaughters





On Thursday, September 2, 2021, 04:06:51 PM EDT, John Wettroth <jwet at mindspring.com> wrote: 





Very true John, I turned it off immediately and I don't think the armature touched the field winding.  It turns fine, no scraping, just very stiff, I think one of the bearings just welded itself together- things are centered.  If it is a $10 fix or just a simple bearing, I think an additional 12 pack would be in order- honor system and not mandatory.

I'm not a starving artist anymore and I was secretly happy that it finally broke so I could buy a new-fangled press that I was eyeing on line.  Check out the Nova Viking- link below.

Now if my 2005 Acura MDX would just spin a bearing or blow up, I could spend some more of my hard earned and saved cash.  I inherited the parsimony gene from my depression era dad.  It’s the same reason I couldn't take it to the dump and had to get a least a few beers for it!

I'm sure it can be made serviceable without a ton of work.  I would look at those bearings first as John suggested.

Link to the new rig- smarter than I am.
https://www.woodcraft.com/products/viking-drill-press-teknatool?gclid=Cj0KCQjw7MGJBhD-ARIsAMZ0eeuMO2Kqc8tYqEuJsXUPnizVF6snDGt3eBxvq3ao7haqX3uN6cxkpAYaAv7LEALw_wcB

Regards,
John M. Wettroth
(984) 329-5420 (home)
(919) 349-9875 (cell) 
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>From your description, it may in fact be just a bad bearing that could be fixed in the motor. What can happen though is the bearing goes bad and the motor scrapes the windings and ruins those too. Whoever get's it, spin the motor and see if it is scraping or has alot of play. If not , you may get away with less than $20 of bearings. Maybe as low as $10

Good Luck!






On Thursday, September 2, 2021, 03:28:42 PM EDT, John Wettroth via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote: 





To the many thousands (or maybe it was 2), the Ryobi drill press has been spoken for.  If the pickup falls though, I'll repost.


Regards,
John M. Wettroth
(984) 329-5420 (home)
(919) 349-9875 (cell) 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Sullivan <jason0x21 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 8:41 AM
To: jwet at mindspring.com
Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Pretty Nice Ryobi Drill Press- Needs Repair

Is this still available?  I'll take it for a 12-pack. (unless there's
someone more starving than I.  I'm just cheap and like to tinker)

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:25 AM John Wettroth via TriEmbed
<triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
> I have a Ryobi Drill press that's about 10 years old.  It's a Benchtop model and
> it's in really nice shape, it has a built in light and a built laser, no rust
> etc.  I line bored many years back and replaced the bearings and it has really
> good runout- probably 2 thou or so.  It has one huge problem however, the motor
> is shot.  It's not just the start cap or something easy, it spun a bearing or
> something and is very stiff to turn- hums loudly on power up so the winding are
> good.  If one of you handy guys have a bit of time and little money, it's yours
> for the pickup and a 12 pack of Yuengling bottles.  I just hate to take it to
> the dump and Habitat won't take anything that isn't 100%.  I would have jumped
> at something like this when I was a starving artist- slapped an old washing
> machine motor on it, etc.  Pic attached.
>
>
> Regards,
> John M. Wettroth
> (984) 329-5420 (home)
> (919) 349-9875 (cell)
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