Bought a great used cordless drill today.

[pgmrdan]

It's a Mohawk-Shelburne model 7740 2-speed breast drill.

She's sweet!

http://www.datamp.org/displayPatent....884&typeCode=0

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[IOWOLF]

What's with you and people powered stuff thiese days,Whats next an AirDyne hooked up to the lathe?

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[J Tiers]

I have a Miller's Falls that you'd have to look closely to see the difference from teh M-S....

Does yours have a level built-in?

The one I have has two places for the crank shaft to fit, it "snaps in" to either place.
Looks like that one might slide?

[wierdscience]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by IOWOLF:
What's with you and people powered stuff thiese days,Whats next an AirDyne hooked up to the lathe?

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Ya,is the light bill really that bad?

[YankeeMetallic]

Let's see the real pic's when you get them. What kind of condition? Are all of the parts there?
Your reminded me of the one I inherited from my grandfathers estate when he passed. He used this thing in his rice fields, and when building his boat that he lived on up to the last few years of his life. It looks to still be complete. It even has a bubble leve for horizontal drilling. It can change to a lower gear like yours but it does it a little different. The handle is stamped "Millers Falls Co. Since 1868. No. 118. Greenfield Mass. Made in USA."
The original black lacquer paint is almost all gone. I have not decided if I was going to clean it up or leave it as is.
Do you know any more about mine? I suppose I could look it up in the patent database.

[CCWKen]

Dan is young. He can handle all that hand powered stuff. All my bit braces and post drills are on the wall--So I can LOOK at 'em.

[pgmrdan]

That's right CCWKen! At only 51 I'm young.

YankeeMetallic, yep, all the parts are there and it's in excellent condition.

J-Tiers, no built-in level on mine.

The reason you can't tell the difference between some Millers Falls and Mohawk-Shelburne is that they some were made by the same company. The Mohawk-Shelburne products were a lower end of Millers Falls products from a little reading I've done.

IOWOLF, I just like the old style stuff.

I have a brace-and-bit that I got new, and this is my third egg-beater style drill (it's the first one that I didn't get new). This being a breast drill makes it my largest.

I also have a Millers Falls Yankee Screwdriver in the box that my uncle gave to my father when I was around 10.

I have a 2-man crosscut saw that belonged to my grandfather and probably his father. It's in good shape and very, very sharp. My father and I used to use it to cut up logs. Someday I'll need to buy a chainsaw.

I could probably talk about a few more hand powered tools I have around like planes, spokeshaves, the draw knife I bought today, hand-router, around 15 handsaws (one is a huge Disston backsaw that's over 100 years old according to the medallion), etc.

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[J Tiers]

Actually, I CAN tell the difference, because the one Yankeemetallic posted is visually the identical model I have.

I didn't go look, but should have before typing... There are significant differences between the patent pic and the ones Y-M and I have.

His is missing a handle near the chuck.

The case just behind the gear is the level. You move the hand gear between the two bosses visible in the "working side" view to change speed ranges.

The little boss next to the gear in the first pic keeps the gear from tipping under cranking force in the other position. Keeps it engaged, so it won't slip out of the chuck spindle teeth.

The low speed is actually pretty powerful with the handle extended all the way.

[john hobdeclipe]

I have a similar breast drill, that I bought to resell, but when I used it to drill some small holes in the driveway gate, 200 feet from the nearest electrical outlet, I decided to keep it. So it joins my bit brace and my little eggbeater drill as seldom used essentials.

This website has some good info on Millers Falls tools:
http://www.public.coe.edu/~rroeder/mf.htm

[pgmrdan]

Yep, extension cords only reach so far and battery packs only last so long.

Some hand powered tools do have their place.