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Well as promised hears a pic of the beast itself, with the 45mm drill I used to fix the tractor axle.
I've never seen one but is there a modern equivalent of a morse taper hand drill.
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Well as promised hears a pic of the beast itself, with the 45mm drill I used to fix the tractor axle.
I've never seen one but is there a modern equivalent of a morse taper hand drill.
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Looks very much like a broken Wolf I had knocking about for a while. Somebody had dropped it, so the plastic half was knacked and got binned, but I believe I kept the chuck/gearbox end.
This is an old Siemens-Schuckert I use on the rare occasion I feel like using an electric drill. Replaced the brushes when I got it, (had to adapt and file some which were a decent match physically to fit), and it works well, once I fettled it and replaced the lead. Stonking little beast it is. About 600RPM if I recall correctly.
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My big bro still has dads old gold and silver B&D single speed 240 volt drill with the original chuck and key and a gold and silver saw bench and 5 ( ?) inch power saw saw attachment .
Yes, everything still works as it rarely ever been used .. Big bro has his own wood workshop with some semi serious gear in it .
I changed the cable over on the drill last time we had a family meet up several years ago . Yep.... the original black red and green wrapped on a talcum dusted cotton core in the heavily cracked cable , found he'd managed to get a cable stress relief shroud that fitted it .
Once sorted the insulation test showed good but .....I'd not ever want to play with it all .... it's far too noisy & vibrating .
It was given to him in 1964 as a belated birthday 54 th present from my big bro when he returned back to the UK from ADEN. .
Yes, everything still works as it rarely ever been used .. Big bro has his own wood workshop with some semi serious gear in it .
I changed the cable over on the drill last time we had a family meet up several years ago . Yep.... the original black red and green wrapped on a talcum dusted cotton core in the heavily cracked cable , found he'd managed to get a cable stress relief shroud that fitted it .
Once sorted the insulation test showed good but .....I'd not ever want to play with it all .... it's far too noisy & vibrating .
It was given to him in 1964 as a belated birthday 54 th present from my big bro when he returned back to the UK from ADEN. .
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I've used one like that for reaming 3/4" holes in a steam boiler. With two of us hanging on it still bit!
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I was only clearing out the shed a few weeks back and found an old Wolf heavy duty one - pretty much exactly as in the OP's post actually - plugged it in to see what it was like with an old 5/8" drill in the chuck.
Now, obviously, if it spins up, you need to try it in some steel to see how much grunt it's got, yes?
Still have the bruises.
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I just acquired a scrap one of these old solid alloy old monster drills today, I spent half an hour trying to unscrew the chuck, and then found out it was on a taper, which gave up with a tap of my copper hammer. Still I salvaged a nice 1/2 inch high quality chuck off it so I'm a happy bunny.
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my dad has a soviet electric drill in aluminum housing, still remember it gave shock if operated bare handed )))
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Hah! my BIL was an electrician and he was a bit snowed under with incoming work(house rewires) even though he had two electricans he used to ask me to do the drilling and chasing out and backbox mounting.
Well I ain't no Arnold Swartzenegger and i had to use a drill like that wolf to drill holes in the joist and on one job I hit a bleedin knot and the drill kicked back and I bust me wrist not badly but if I hadn't been quick to let the sod go things might have worse?
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I'm actually feeling the odd tingle in the wrist now after that thinking about it .. I love the drills power though, my bench drill is a POS compared to it .. I might risk using it more
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i sometimes use my 1000w metabo drill on low speed for augering 25mm holes in joists i dont use it on new beams if there a bit moist as u can feel the drill tightening up and steam coming out of wood . 
and ohhh sh..it here we go grit your teeth and hang on
and ohhh sh..it here we go grit your teeth and hang on 
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i sometimes use my 1000w metabo drill on low speed for augering 25mm holes in joists i dont use it on new beams if there a bit moist as u can feel the drill tightening up and steam coming out of wood .
All my Metabo stuff has safety clutches fitted, not sure if they all do but if so you should be safe(er) with their tools...
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yes it has a safety clutch fitted but its realy just for diamond core cutting in concrete so it doesnt realy stop when just augering a 25mm hole just a 4ich one
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I love a good tools thread so I went out to the garage and took these two photos.
The Black and Decker is 34 years old and has seen many other drills come and go but is still going strong, albeit with a nose bearing which has been a bit sloppy for at least 10 years.
Heaven knows how old the Wolf drill is, it found its way into my dads garage when the steelworks went to 110v for all portable electrical equipment and that must be around 50 years ago. It doesn't have a side handle which makes it a real wrist breaker if a drill grabs.
The Black and Decker is 34 years old and has seen many other drills come and go but is still going strong, albeit with a nose bearing which has been a bit sloppy for at least 10 years.
Heaven knows how old the Wolf drill is, it found its way into my dads garage when the steelworks went to 110v for all portable electrical equipment and that must be around 50 years ago. It doesn't have a side handle which makes it a real wrist breaker if a drill grabs.
