Is that even a "thing"?    Unlike clamps....sometimes one should draw the line...?

Spent some time in the shop, tonight....cleaning a few drills....braces are in 6" sweep up to a 14" sweep.   Stanleys, Millers falls, a 12" PEXTO, and even a couple marked Germany ( and NOT West Germany, either) Some of these needed to see the wire wheel....rust spots.   Some needed a drop of oil, here and there...makes them turn a bit better ( pun intended)....I can understand this mob of drills....may get rid of a couple duplicates..maybe...however, it is a different thing with these critters..

Do I really NEED 10 of these?   The biggest is a Millers Falls No. 2-01.....the smallest has a new chuck..

Hard enough to tighten the chucks on the larger ones...Craftsman 1/4" chuck...takes a key.   

There are two Craftsman drills here..black handle I thought was a M-F No. 5..is a Craftsman. All blue with the red knob?   Stanley Handyman.  Light coloured wood handle has a surprise...

Slides open to store bits in the handle...

Millers falls, Granit, GM CO.,   And a Goodell-Pratt...The gray-framed Craftsman and the big M-F #2...

Did a test drive into a few knots.   I  was wiping these down, oiling them up, wire wheel as needed ....Two others got to join the fun..

May give the G-P a test, later.....may just keep the better ones...in a small, medium, large set up...Not sure IF I need 10 eggbeaters..

Bad enough with at least that many braces..and squares..

Will see how this goes.....have planes to sharpen, a few well used chisels to freshen up... Normal Downtime  after a Project...

 

Too many drills?

6 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Is that even a "thing"?  

NO!!

8 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Slides open to store bits in the handle...

I've never seen one like that. Very .

9 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Not sure IF I need 10 eggbeaters..

I'm pretty sure you do

10 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Too many drills?

You need to go to bed...think you are suffering from lack of proper rest and maybe too much time in the dungeon...are you using straight BLO again?

turn out the lights, close (& lock) the door. Everything will be better tomorrow.

At least you don't have to change bits 

Thanks Dave.   You pretty well covered everything i was thinking as i drooled over my keyboard.    (that's me with my tongue out). 

Do you have a Stanley Defiance drill? You probably already know the story: The King of England laughed and said that Mr. Stanley would starve and ask to return to England, so Stanley made  a line of tools with the Defiance label in defiance of the King! I do have one with all the bits, and they are not the spiral type either, so it must be fairly old.

"Too many drills?"

 

To re-iterate: as the kids say:  "un-possible"

While stashing a few eggbeaters away...discovered one more eggbeater drill ( makes 11...) a Millers Falls "Buck Rogers" drill..

The smaller of the two they made...takes up to 1/4" bits.   No. 104

 

Yep, so many, I ferget one....

2 hours ago, steven newman said:

( makes 11...)...Yep, so many, I ferget one

because it's an odd number...you need one more to make a dozen, then the drill karma will be in harmony.

Back when L. Bailey was having "issues" with Stanley.....broke away for a time, and started his own factory....two of the Model Lines were called Defiance, and Victor...

 

Couple of battles in court later, and Bailey safely back under Stanley's thumb.....those two lines were brought back as Stanley brands....in honour of Mr. Bailey....even cast the Bailey name on Stanley planes.  And confused, and confounded everyone as to who made what....

 

Don't forget..I also have THREE breast drills....and a chain drill.....And a few "Push Drills"....getting crowded down here...

Too many drills?

 

Never!!! 

14 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

you need one more to make a dozen

I was thinking "bakers dozen" would be better.