Those are great if you do a lot of odd compound angles and want deep reach. As Cliff notes, it's not very rigid with respect to what steel drilling requires, but plenty rigid for wood and small diameter metal.? Also the spindle diameter is pretty small and it's common that the spindles have significant runout (the head/spindle assembly is common to a zillion Walker Turner/Rockwell models)? ?
There were quite a lot of those made.? A decade or so ago there'd be multiple of those on eBay at any given time, but they seemed to have become pretty scarce in recent years.? However, some of this traffic seems to have moved back to craiglist too.? Back in the heyday I saw dozens in shops and auctions, and they were rarely super beat up.? It seems like a lot of metal shops had them, but didn't use them much because for straight drilling other drill presses were better (more rigid, more powerful)
That one seems in fine shape, but I would note that a recent re-paint is a red flag.? You can see the over-spray on the floor.? And of course these didn't come in white -- machine gray only.? ?There are some sellers who just spray everything to make it shiny, but often recently painted means it looked too crappy to sell at top dollar.? But there's very little in a simple old pulley-driven drill presses anyway.? If the bearings are crappy, it's easy to replace.? The main issue is if the spindle is bent slightly and runout is lousy.
