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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: chinaroads on December 16, 2015, 10:53:19 AM

Title: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: chinaroads on December 16, 2015, 10:53:19 AM: I have not been ablle to identify who made this air drill.

Its 13 inches long and has either cptco or gptco on the side of it. On the other side is AB-21F. On the top is am -00 on the handle is P.S.N.Y. 011
Any ideas??

Images are to large to post. Here is a link to them

http://s1044.photobucket.com/user/chinaroads1/slideshow/

Thanks
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: amecks on December 16, 2015, 11:09:41 AM: Possibly Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.? Still in business - here's a link to their "History" web page.
http://www.cp.com/usen/whoweare/history/ (http://www.cp.com/usen/whoweare/history/)
Maybe you could send them a photo of the drill and ask if they made it.
Al
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: Chillylulu on December 16, 2015, 09:19:32 PM: Why would you drill air?

Is this a snipe hunt thing?

:embarrassed:
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 16, 2015, 11:19:28 PM: Chilly I'm really starting to worry about you. 2nd year apprenticeship class covered drilling air to make holes that allowed important people to fart at lower pressure so they didn't need to work up a head of steam to overcome 1 atmosphere.

Drill motor looks like the power unit from an old truck frame drill.
Motor part is similar to the motor portion of an air mop, probably makes 5 horsepower.

Frame drills looked like a dent dozer with a drill mounted on the vertical arm. Carriage was chained in position against the truck, drill positioned on the vertical arm indexed to the punch mark and wound up. Second valve on the carriage similar to the column mounted spike on an air brake truck applied air pressure to a diaphragm to push the drill into the work.
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: amecks on December 17, 2015, 07:47:53 AM: Chilly, not for drilling air, for drilling pneumas - related species to the snipe.

In the photos - to the left of the AB-21 number is a circular area - I wonder if that could be the "CP" logo. Maybe the CP letters are worn?
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: lptools on December 17, 2015, 03:45:14 PM: Hello, Amecks. I live in North Syracuse, so I think there may be a local connection to the air drill. Could the P S N Y indicate a Pass & Seymour casting? Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: amecks on December 18, 2015, 07:41:20 AM: Again, you could send a photo to the Pass & Seymour factory. Ask if this is their mark. Sometimes there will be someone who is knowledgeable in company history and they will be pleased to give you any information they have.
Al
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 18, 2015, 02:08:35 PM: Pass & Seymore manufactured electrical devices ranging from wall outlets to the first marketed GFCI sold in the US in 1967.

They may have had a foundry to accomodate their needs for explosion proof housings for those devices, bui I doubt they made air tools.
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: lptools on December 18, 2015, 03:30:52 PM: Hello, Aunt Phil. Thanks, I threw that out there, hoping for a connection. No GFCI pun intended.
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: Aunt Phil on December 18, 2015, 04:23:42 PM: Quote from: lptools on December 18, 2015, 03:30:52 PM
Hello, Aunt Phil. Thanks, I threw that out there, hoping for a connection. No GFCI pun intended.

GARRROOOWWNNN, Puns annoy me.
Title: Re: Air Drill ID requested
Post by: lptools on December 18, 2015, 07:06:42 PM: Hello, Here are other possibles for the P S N Y ; Penn Station New York (railroad ?) o, Puget Sound Navy Yard ?