Isn't she beautiful?!?Earlier this morning a rather disgruntled delivery driver struggled to the front door with 40kg of Sealey magic. Despite the assembly instructions (damn those missing illustrations!) I managed to assemble the bits of my new GDM92B bench drill.
This is just one more step on my journey to building a cheap version of a Mamod stationary steam engine. I've bought all the (unmachined) constituent parts for around £15. Unfortunately my workshop wasn't quite tooled up to be able to do all the required fabrication.
Apart from this bench drill, I need a bench(!), a couple of metal working vices, a tap and die set, a hand riveter and a pressure vessel capable of testing boilers to 4 bar under water. A heater in the garage might be nice too.
To be fair, it would clearly be much cheaper, and perhaps safer, to spend the money on a pre-built model but where's the fun in that? My current estimates suggest I should break into profit after making only my twelfth example.
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