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Frivolous Purchase #1
This delightful tool is a Millers Falls #104 hand drill (nicknamed the “Buck Rogers” drill): These drills, alongside their plane counterparts (that now sell for a zillion dollars, because plane...
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Further Down the Slippery Slope of the Hand Drill
I told you that I really liked hand drills, right? Well, here’s last week’s arrival: This is a Millers Falls #2 “eggbeater” drill, probably made sometime during WWII or just after, due to its domestic...
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Okay, so it turns out that clearing 105-year-old grease from a hand drill’s gears is a moderately ugly job. Who knew?
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Millers Falls flange wheel mystique
I’d mentioned earlier in an earlier entry that there has been some hubbub about the design of the Millers Falls #2 drill, namely that some guy named George Langford says that the later dual pinion...
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An Eggbeater and a Plow
So I’m back after a vacation, and I’ve been going like gangbusters on the bench modification, right? Ha, no. I’ve just been dorking around with this Millers Falls #5A, first taking it apart to...
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