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The Wörner B13 has a notable building quality. It’s not cheap machine at all. After the disassembly, al mechanical elements were cleaned of debris and this olde grease that forms a kind of hard lack with years. Surely, the machine was serviced before: there are traces of poor repairing and assembly. I’m not sure, however, that it was also cleaned and relubed. Grease looks very old in some bearings. What follows are some detailed pictures of the distinct assemblies after cleaning the parts.

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During the COVID'19 lockdown I spent part of my time disassembling the drilling press. In this post I will show the cosmetic works. The machine arrived with a nasty layer of lack over the original one. I decided to spend time recovering its original aspect. This required to strip off all the paint in bad condition and tp prepare the surface to be lackered again. In some parts, like the pulleys cover, I go until the bare metal.

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The first work we do is a specific cabinet to support the drill press, to protect the electrical wiring and, to store the drill tooling. The cabinet structure is maid from steel L profile of 50mm conveniently welded. It is mounted on machine feet ans designed to be moved by using the palet jack. Below you will find some pictures of the structure and the drill press being moved on its top.

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Some months ago I bought a serious drilling press. I was investigating for months looking for a good quality drill press after The Cincinnati was sold. Finally, I favoured a Wörner B13. Although unusual, it’s a nice and high quality machine. The machine came from Lithuania but they it is made in Germany. The machine condition is good but suffers from aestetical issues and some signs of age. Additionally, someone modified the driving system adding and intermediate pulley to lower the rotation speeds range.

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As I explained some posts ago, my garage is being fully overhauled and reorganized. Because of this, I sold the Pujantell lathe and a Milling/drilling Cincinnati machine. Now I sold also my shaper. It’s a Rile-300 shaper, 300mm being the stroke length. The machine is very similar to other of the same dimensions. Actually, it’s almost identical to Sacia-300, a very usual spanish shaper. I don’t know if Rile is related to Sacia in some way.

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After a request from Chris Maron, in this entry I report about the Boley-Leinen LZ4SB carriage stops. I would like the entry to be sufficiently detailed to allow anyone to reproduce the original stops. Sadly, I have no cross slide stops. If you, beloved reader, have these stops, I invite you to report about them and let me know! I should add that the stops shown here are of “ordinary” type.

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