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Old 28th Apr 2019, 6:05 pm   #102
avocollector
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Default Re: Show us your drills!

One of the things I liked about the old wolf and Stanley metal bodied drills was the fact they could be dropped even onto concrete and would usually bounce whereas the new plastic in the early day often fractured easily. I have an old Stanley homelite drill that uses a sort of predecessor of the Jacobs chuck - there is a knurled ring and the body of the check behind it has two holes which an eighth inch twist drill fits neatly for tightening it. My main wail about Jacobs chucks is they can come undone at particularly inconvenient moments - such as recently 2m up a ladder drilling through a six inch wooden wall. To have the bit stuck then and the drill come off is really difficult.
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