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    Quote Originally Posted by hiroller View Post
    What is the part you are missing?
    There are suprisingly few parts. Only the pawls and the "spring" seem to wear out.
    If you have another you could conceivably make a copy.
    Hi hiroller. The parts have been soaking in kero for about 6 months. I've just been out to the garage and poured off the kero. It's made no inroads on the hardened gunk/grease . I've recently bought some acetone - I wonder if that might work? I might find time to take a few pikkies tomorrow.

    Anyway, beneath the selector are four pawls and two springs. The springs are three legged ("E" shape) and copper coloured (bronze?). One of the two springs is missing it's middle leg. I could attempt to make a new one, but I just know I'd get impatient and stuff it up. That's why I bought a second No.1545 (it had a poorly repaired geared crank wheel [the larger wheel] and also has a stuffed selector). If both the springs in that one are broken/worn I'll have lucked out.

    Quote Originally Posted by hiroller;
    I've looked at the ratchet patent before but never noticed that the OCR wasn't that great as I've always just downloaded the PDF of the original document.
    Why the need to have it in Word?
    The OCR was terrible. Letters confused, words combined or missing, and paragraphs merged. There are references to f1 thru f4 (refering to diagrams) that were completely jumbled. Having been through the OCR process it was easy to copy into a Word document. From there I could easily edit and correct as I worked my way through it. Being in Word it will also be easier for me to cut and paste to a thread (eventually).

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Good luck with it. Keep us posted.
    I think you could make one with some brass shim stock.

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    Luke

    you should check out this Millers falls on ebay

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Millers-F...item25a951a57a

    Cheers
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    Thanks, Stew.

    I dunno... I am a bit reluctant to pay that much I suppose. By the time I got it to my house I'd be $80 into it. I'm more of a $20-$40 and then a few hours of elbow grease kind of guy.

    Buuuuut I will still keep an eye on the listing

    Cheers,
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    Quote Originally Posted by hiroller View Post
    I think you could make one with some brass shim stock.
    I don't know if brass shim would be springy enough? I know they used to use bronze for springs in places where steel springs were subject to too much corrosion. There are probably stainless steels that do that job these days.

    For anyone interested in the deeper workings of these Yankee drills, I've just started a new thread here: https://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/repairing-yankee-1545-eggbeater-196509

    Cheers, Vann.
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    I can understand the need to have a hand powered drill I purchased a second hand one for about $25.00 about 5 years ago, from The Traditional Tool Group Sale. I cannot tell you much about it other than it is a Stanley that was originally painted black and after cleaning up the grease the black paint came off reveling a bring yellow.

    I use this when I am in a hurry to get smaller(pilot) holes done. Since then I have purchased two more one with a bigger capacity to hold larger drill bits. The original smaller one is my most used out of the three.

    The thing to look out for is to ensure that the jaws come together smoothly. Or you will have to spend time playing with it and it becomes something that is not used.

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    Luke

    did you end up getting a hand drill? You inspired me and I got myself another one! A Millers Falls No 2A, it's really nice to use and definitely recommended!

    $_57.JPG

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    Stew,

    Still haven't gotten one. It's on my list but, because it's a want more than a need, I'm content to wait for the perfect one to come along.

    That one looks good. I think I'd like to have a 2 and a 5 when it's all said and done.

    Cheers,
    Luke

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    Luke

    check this one out.

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/400974144...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

    Cheers
    Stew

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    Officially "watching" that one!

    Thanks a lot for keeping me in mind.

    Cheers,
    Luke

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