Lee Valley Replica Egg-Beater Drill

[Winston Chang]

If you want to be pedantic, the word "replica" has a few different meanings, and this drill still counts as a replica.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/replica
1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
2. any close or exact copy or reproduction.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/replica
1: an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist
// a replica of this was painted … this year
— Constance Strachey
2: a copy exact in all details
// DNA makes a replica of itself
// sailed a replica of the Viking ship
broadly : COPY
// this faithful, pathetic replica of a Midwestern suburb
— G. F. Kennan

[Mel Fulks]

Yes, it's been mis-used and watered down. But it's origin is well documented. Coined in 1826, If memory serves.
The bigger deal is I need to recognize it's a lost cause. I apologize.
But I have to add that the loss of accuracy is bad thing. No purpose is served by lots of words all used for the same
thing.

[Clark Magnuson]

Millers falls hand drill crank fabricated 20200820_211104.jpg

My father's Millers Falls drill handle broke in 1956 and he repaired it poorly.

In 2020 I cloned a correct handle and knob.