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Manufactured/Badged by:
Duro Metal Products Co.
Chicago, IL.

True Manufacturer:
Duro Metal Products Co., Chicago, IL.

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Drill Press
Machine Size:	14"
Submitted By:	Larry Hampton

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	V-3081
Date of Manufacturer:	1942-49
Serial Number:	V 81QP
Last Updated	7/9/2014 12:57:43 AM

Comments:

This showed up on CraigsList, and it took me a couple of days to overcome my good sense and drive up to see it. Of course I bought it, persuading myself that owning too many drill press is actually a good thing.
This machine was covered by oil and goo, so the only rust was the base and the column. It came fairly clean with standard degreasing methods, and an angle grinder/wire wheel treatment cleaned up the column. A little sandblasting and the drill took paint nicely. Good bearings, and no important missing parts, so the rehab was not difficult.
This machine does not appear in the 1942 catalog but it does appear in 1949. I would like to pin down the year of manufacture, because I am always on the lookout for machines what were produced the same year I was (1946), but I don't have the catalogs available for the years 1942-1948.
The paint is Rustoleum Hammered Dark Bronze, with Rusteoleum Hammered Gray accents. I avoided sandblating wherever I could in order to preserve the original wrinkled surface beneath the new paint.
I kept the motor that came with the DP, a later model Westinghouse 1/2 HP. A nice, greasy cross-slide vise came with the DP, and that will be a nice addition to my shop.

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Comments: official portrait
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Comments: as found
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Comments: rt side
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Comments: L. side
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Comments: motor tag
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