Let's see you egg beater drills
Ok go dust them off and show a pic and details of your egg beater drills
I love mine, all users except for the new miller falls I need to fix up.
Here are mine
The small millers fall with the price tag string still attached is a recent purchase and needs some work. I tend to use the small leytool drill for larger stuff the larger Millers falls and for anything bigger I use a brace.
I haven't had much luck with the drill press I think it needs some fettling and practice.
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Mike
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A Taster - Of Things To Come.
Here's a photo I took 2 or 3 years ago.
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Post drills - from R-L:
- Silver Manufacturing Co No.22 two-speed post drill. Complete and in working order. Used very occasionally;
- Wiley & Russell, Green River No.841 post drill, with loose & fast pullies. Not quite complete (the flywheel is a ring-in);
- Boynton & Plummer No.1½ post drill. Not quite complete (missing table and crank handle);
- Silver Manufacturing Co No.14 two-speed post drill. Not quite complete (I have the column, foot, yoke & table in a box);
- Dawn Manufacturing No.611 post drill. Complete and in good working order (never used as there's too much junk in that corner).
I also have a Silver No.21 and a Silver No. 23 (just last month acquired most of the parts required to complete it) awaiting work.
And downstairs in my workshop I have...
Attachment 449497 Attachment 449498 Boring holes in a post to mount the Silver No.22
...yet another post drill. A Canadian Blower & Forge No.61, which gets occasional use.
Cheers, Vann.
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Blacksmiths Post Drills - Pt.2.
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Vann
...I bought two very nice Champion No.101 post drills because each came with a bunch of blacksmiths drill bits. In a rationalisation I sold them both (without the bits)...
So I now have a nice collection of blacksmiths bits, with grateful thanks also to Paul McGee who kindly sent me a handful, and much patience watching Trademe to pick up one here and one there.
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The rack pictured is a home-made rack that came with one of the Champion post drills. I gave it a tidy-up and reused it. The five drill bits below are my meagre collection of MT1 drill bits :B (for my powered drill press :o).
Blacksmiths bits (also known as Silver & Deming or S&D bits in the States) below 1/2" are made of unobtainium. They probably went out of production in the 1950s or 60s. Above 1/2" they're still available as "reduced shank" bits - sans the flat for the post drill bolt to grip them.
Cheers, Vann.
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My Record Collection (no Beatles)
Some photos I took this morning (before my camera battery went flat :~).
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From L-R:
- Record 123 (in better original condition than the user in an earlier post);
- Record 423 - a more modern one of reduced quality;
- Stanley 803 (again in better original condition than the user in an earlier post).
And a nice pair of breasts :q.
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From L-R:
- Record 145;
- Record 124;
- Record 144;
and on
- Record 122 - single pinion eggbeater.
Record eggbeaters came in four models; 122, 123, 124 and 125. The Record 124 eggbeater is a particularly nice drill, with a few extra features such as a knurled edge on the drive gear wheel and the main handle can be removed and set at 90 degrees. The 125 is slightly nicer again, but I haven't found one of them. UK Alf did a great write up on the 124 on her (now discontinued) blog.
Record introduced drills to their range of products in 1932 (catalogue 11) & 1933 (catalogue 12) and last listed them in 1938 (catalogue 15), with the exception of the No.123 eggbeater which remained in production probably into the 1960s before morphing into the Record-Marples No.423.
We all know that Record copied Stanley planes - right down to the (by then) non-standard threads. When it came to breast drills they copied Millers Falls models. They produced three models: 144, 145 and 146.
- the 144 appears to be a copy of the MF 120;
- the 145 appears to be a copy of the MF 118;
- the 146 is the same as the 145 but with a 2-jaw chuck (MF 15 or 24?)
Scroll down this link for more info Record Hand Planes
Cheers, Vann.