This is the post that closes the mechanic works on the Wörner B13. Now remains to do some final testing, some woodworking to take profit of the supporting structure and to mount the electrical controls. These will be the next steps. There are a couple of pictures of the finished machine:

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This is how the drilling machine return spring looks when I opened the cover: A previous owner did a not very successful repair and modified the internal attachment of the spring. As a result, spring was badly deformed and have a unusual feeling during the descent. I extracted it by pulling it out of the cup and then giving it a quarter turn to free the external end from its attachment (it has a rectangular shape as you will see next).

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The drilling press was modified by a previous owner. As it can be seen in the picture below, someone added an intermediate pulley in the driving train to reduce the rotation speeds. What was the motor pulley became the intermediate pulley and a new single step pulley was fitted to the motor shaft. I have some doubts about the origin of this variation: would it be made at the Wörner factory after a specific requirement by a client?

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The Wörner quill is again on the drilling press. After being completely cleaned and disassembled, the quill rack was touched up to correct the damage that probably was made while assembling the pinion some time ago. Main bearings were replaced by a new ones. Old ones have a suspicious mark that suggest they are no plain 6006 deep grove bearings. GMN redirected me to the spanish contact Berkomat and they concluded that class P4 6005 bearings would be the right replacement.

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Some of the parts of the Wörner B13 were originally blackened. Rust have ruined most of those finishings. Thus I was faced to polish them to clear metal or try to recover original black coating. I found interesting to experiment with those cold blackening solutions and give them a try. What follows is the resulting experience. The parts to be processed were: The screw plug of the quill retention. The handle and bearing support of the belt tensioning pinion.

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