[TheForge] Old reliable tools (was: The "tick stick.")

[Mike Spencer]

> I've got two (count 'em: two) 1/2" drills -- the aluminum-bodied
> kind that accept a 3/4" pipe to give you enough torque to take full
> advantage of their power.

I have one of that description, a Black & Decker identical to one
advertized in a 1925 catalog for $25 -- maybe a week's wages for a
good man then?  It's going strong.  Also a B&D end grinder of same
vintage, also going strong.  It needed a new brush holder circa 1977
and the B&D depot in Halifax had 3 in stock so I now have a spare.

Got them for $5 each from a retired smith who had sawed his thumb off
on a table saw while wearing gloves in an unheated shop. (SAFETY HINT!) 

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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