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Alan - http://www.traditionaltoolworks.com:8080/roller/aland/
there was a company still making a tool very similar to the drill Harry posted. I can't recall the name (hey, I'm 60 - give me credit for remembering seeing the catalog pics of the tool!); the company was marketing it as a farmer's drill, for fence and outbuilding repair.
I imagine the company has by now stopped production; farmers, except for Amish and others who eschew electricity, having surely long since gone to cordless drills and portable generators.
Kind of amazing, really, how late some of the 19th century's technological wonders held out.
Yes, Alan it was designed to drill thru the iron tire so you could put tire bolts thru the wooden felloes to help hold the iron tire on.
Bill you are thinking of the Cole Drill and I think they are still made and duplicated by other Co's too. I have 2 of them an original and a knock off.
http://www.rustyiron.com/engines/coledrill/
http://www.oldengine.org/members/levans/colevise/
Jr.
Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
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My wife's uncle died and at the estate auction I just have to have this post drill
Back in the '50's I remember my grandpa had one on his wall in the tractor shop.
I "played" with that thing for hours on end! What a marvel I thought, how do people
think of such things?
I searched the internet and found that this one was made prior to 1908.
I also noticed that EVERY one of these seems to have come with the attaching board
made of white oak-nifty.
Thinking of putting a J-chuck on it.
Comments?
Bruce
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Good old thread! Still have the same post drills mentioned in my response to the OP. My working habits are different today, howver: that was a time period of doing without electrons being sacrified. Today, power tools are used to do the heavy lifting.
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I just bought an Acme Post drill. I need to find a ratchet arm and claw. It was lost or broken a long time ago. Any pointers in making one or getting one made?
Take a look at all the pictures here:
http://www.vintagemachinery.org/mfgi...tail.aspx?id=8
and see if you can figure out how to fabricate a replacement part. Most of the old post drills were very similar. Chances of finding a replacement part are slim to none.