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Mine came with a 3 phase motor, and didn’t want to change it, so got a VFD for it. It controls the speed, how it starts and stops, and direction of the drill, and creates a false 3 phase by converting 1 phase. You can do the same for 1 phase motors, so you can control them in the same way.

They are good drills, not had any problems with it since the rebuild, drills as true as I need. Trying to mount the VFD controls at the moment. Not really sure of the Marks, not really delved in to it that far. Does it have the safety bar on the base?

No problem. It’s quite a simple machine to disassemble, there was three points that really got me, but got them worked out. There was so much grease it was hard to see what was what. I got another motor, as buying a 240V single to 440v three VFD is pricey, too pricey for me. This is just a...

I bought the top spindle bearings new old stock, these go in the head of the drill, under the spindle pulley, there’s two. This is for the spindle nose, there wasn’t a premium brand, so got generic. This is at the top of the spindle, may not be totally correct, but fit well and available...

All back together now, and spins lovely. It was so much easier putting it back together. The gear selector handle was missing when I bought it, so I’ve bought another handle. It was missing because the 3/8BSW threads had been mullered in, so it’s been V-Coiled in the original size. The motor is...

Depends what you’ve been using it for. If just normal drilling then the drill is at fault, I’d take Phill05s advice. I abuse my Makita cordless drill, leaning on it with a wire wheel, drilling at angles, that sort of thing, and the chuck wobbles, but that is to be expected. A centimetre of...

Bought a nice example, but it was noisy as hell, so knew it needed bearings all round. And it hadn’t been greased since the 80s judging the smell and colour of the grease. Most of the disassembly was simple, two things tripped me up, removing the high low gear (the shaft that resides in the...

Joined as I’m looking for advice from time to time, nothing at the moment, but my “workshop” is ever increasing. Hoping to input from time to time as well. Leroy Somer 8” and 6” bench grinders, and now a Boxford Union PD8 (think that’s the model). It’s from around 1973, as the bearings are pre...