Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: lvgforum on October 14, 2014, 07:32:44 PM
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Hello,
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas.
Grandpa thought it was an old bearing press or pipe tool but he wasn't sure.
It's about 28" tall. Thanks,
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Welcome to Tool Talk!
That might be a fixture to hold an electric drill to make a drill press. The lower jaws don't look substantial enough to press a bearing.
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Yeah that's sort of like what my grandpa said, something about electric motor bearings.
Maybe we're on the right track. I haven't found anything on eBay or Google related to those terms.
Maybe someone else has seen one of these before.
Thanks for the welcome,
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Back in the 1950s when homeowners began to have basement shops and electric drills about every maker of electric drills had a device similar to that in their offering.
A man who owned a ½" electric drill was king of his block. A man who owned the drill press conversion setup was KING of the subdivision.
I have a Black & Decker complete with drill motor from that era. It has a set of adapters B&D never thought of so I can clamp it to pipe or square tube and drill holes easily and almost effortlessly.
Handy as hell to have because it can be easily carried onto a jobsite, and does more work than a magnetic drill press.
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Agreed, it's a drill press for an electric drill - many were type specific e.g. Black and Decker - your appears to be universal, to take a range of different makes...
The most common make in the UK was Wolf....
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Thank you all,