Today I spied an add for a floor standing Delta drill press. It's a 3/4 hp 16 1/2" drill press. The guy wouldn't give me a price over the phone, so I went down to the warehouse that was liquidating it's assets to check it out. I figured in good shape it was worth $150 tops for me, since I like Delta tools, but could get a new one for around $350. It turned out this one was broken at the extension table bracket and the rack piece that the bracket rides to go up and down. Everything else looked great, except for some old tape scum on the plastic parts. So I figured the parts would go for around 75-100 bucks to replace, and offered him 60. He said how about 75, I said, that a good used one was only worth 175 tops, so, I'd be into it more than I could sell it. He sold it for 60! Drill works great, parts came to 87bucks shipped, so all in all I'm pretty pleased!
Here are a few photos.