[TheForge] A simple hole

[Jerry Frost]

It's amazing to find out first hand, how well a hand 
crank drill works. Looking at one makes you think you 
have to take on steel with brute strength instead of 
mechanical advantage. On the other hand if I have very 
many holes I like my drill to have electrons flowing 
through it at a prodigious rate.

I'm easy to make happy too. Electricity makes me as 
happy as knowing how to do without. <grin>

Frosty
-------------------------------
If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

http://www.artmetalradio.com/

From: "Jeff & Leslie" <barkingcrow at comcast.net>


> Reading about it was nice and all, but doing it was 
> slick.  Almost dark and I need a 1/2" hole in half 
> inch plate.   Decided to try the cole #7  hand drill 
> that's been buried in the back of the shop for years. 
> Grabbed a rusty drill bit from the junk pilel, it did 
> have an edge that grabbed my finger, and after 
> spending some time figuring how to set it up I had it 
> clamped to the work table that needed another hole. 
> Crank it a few times and then tighten the nut  a bit. 
> Hurt my hand to tighten so I got a big pair of pliars 
> since I couldn't come up with a wrench big enough, 
> but then after a few quick series  I jammed the bit 
> and it took a while to figure how to get it loose. 
> Did that twice before I realized that the way to turn 
> the depth nut was by hand.  All in all it may have 
> taken 10 minutes after I started drilling but then it 
> was my first hole by headlight and I'd already had a 
> drink.  It was slick and I didn't need a cord or some 
> expensive gas.
>
> Luckily it doesn't take much to make me happy.
>
> Jeff in Tallahassee
>