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Old 12th Aug 2018, 2:01 am   #26
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I bought my first drill, a Black & Decker D500, when I was a youngster. It's shown in the last picture below complete with its original box and instructions. Regardless of the price shown on the box, I seem to remember that I sent away for it from a special offer in Exchange & Mart and it came with various free accessories and was less than the price shown. I bought the circular saw attachment for it and eventually managed to burn out the armature. I got a replacement armature from a little shop that stocked such things at a place called Uddingston, just outside Glasgow - anyone remember this shop and what it was called? The replacement armature seemed to be of far better quality than the original one and the drill still works to this day. It's spent nearly all its life fitted with the circular saw attachment which has had a lot of use, and the original 3/8" chuck was fitted to the D520 shown next to it to replace its much smaller one. The D520 was given to me in the early 70s when someone was having a clear out, and became my regular drill for many years and is still working well.

Below is a list of some of my drills with pictures in order at the bottom;

1) Wolf type NW4c/F, 230/250v AC/DC on pillar stand in regular use.

2) Black & Decker 1/2" 'Special Drill', type HB, 235/250v AC/DC,1.5 amp, 375 rpm. Used to power a bench grinder - a lot of inefficiency and losses in that gearing being geared all the way down in the drill, then all the way up again on the grinder, which would have originally been hand cranked. In working order and in use.

3) Wolf light production drill 1/4", type EG2c H, 220/250v, 2800 rpm. I think this came with the B&D D520 - a good drill still in use.

4) Stanley Bridges, 'General Purpose' 5/16" drill, type DR2T, 240v AC, 1.4 amps, 325 watts, 2950 rpm. Mounted on a pillar stand, complete with other accessories and instructions - hasn't been used for many years.

5) My original Black & Decker Super D500 3/8" drill. Also the B&D D520 two speed drill, which replaced it as a general use drill when the D500 became a permanent circular saw power unit. The D520 originally had a 5/16" chuck, 270 watts, 900 & 2400 rpm. This drill is probably quite a bit older than the D500.
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