[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 83, Issue 48

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

I like those massive old tools. I have an ancient milwalkee 3/4" drill 
motor that has a 5 # flywheel just benind the gear cluster.
It's a real wrist buster..Almost tossed a friend off the top of a 20' 
extension ladder.
I took it apart a few years ago,  to replace the bearings..but none were 
available..neither SAE nor Metric fit.
Wasn't all that bad, guess i'll put it back together.
Last new tools i got from milwaukee were over engineered and under built 
POS. ( what's the plural?)...made in china.  sigh.
But truth be told, when i do have to run a big auger through a timber..i 
go for my old hole-hog.


On 12/21/2010 7:02 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> I really like the old huge power hand drill, what a monster!  Will
>> nearly rip your arm off if it binds in the hole.
> Yeah. What saves the day is that there is a socket threaded for 1" pipe
> thread.  Screw in a foot of pipe and you have enough torque to
> avoid having you arm twisted off. (It doesn't have a deadman switch,
> just ON and OFF.)
>
> I've put a 2" auger bit in it to bore bolt holes through 10x10s to
> support the A&O hammer.  With the pipe handle, it's possible to stall
> the drill but it takes an effort.
>
>