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Huked on fonix wurks fir mee. So I spell well.

Greg

Greetings Bud,

No no no, that's not what I meant.  

As a matter of fact, I think you are one of the better communicators who post here, as you are very direct and make your points with an economy of words that is rare.

What I meant to say is that Timo has a clear understanding of the idioms and phraseology of English, and has a good grasp of American cultural context, which is something you don't get unless you actually live on this side of the pond.

Perhaps a story might help illustrate the point.

Just this week during a trip outside to the smoking lounge, some of my colleagues at work were discussing personal preferences in programming languages.  They are a diverse bunch.  One is a Turk who was schooled in France, married a Chicago girl, and now lives here in Illinois.  Another is a Polish Immigrant; and another from Russia.  Then we have the cheese-head Wisconite of Irish descent, myself, the local Jew, and two ex-navy scaliwags. (Seriously, they are all good guys and would be the first ones to say ... did you hear the one about the muslim, the pollock, and the jew? ... because, every day, that's who we are.)  So the Irish guy and the Frenchman were going back and forth about something as we were walking through the parking lot, and the the Irish guy says, "so I bet you don't like creamed corn either?"; the reference being that the Thanksgiving holiday is right around the corner, and you have to have creamed corn with the sweet potatoes, turkey, and pumpkin pie, and everybody usually does like the creamed corn.  So the French Turk says, "No, I don't like gay porn!"  I about choked on the coke I was sipping on.

The Frenchman didn't grow up with the whole Thanksgiving story every year as a child, so he lacked the cultural context to understand the exasperated remark that he was filtering through his French accented ears.  So based on other conversations the cheese-head has been known to have with the Polish guy, he heard "creamed corn" as "gay porn".   We all had a good laugh on that one.

I can usually tell pretty quickly when people were born abroad as they frequently butcher the plurals and idioms.  

Timo writes English like he was born here and I thought he deserved the compliment.

Cheers,
Tom

He speaks it quite well also . . .

Greeting Timo,

Back to your original Question.

I snapped a photo of Dad's Stanley Model 41 Yankee Auto Push Drill (North Brothers manufacturing, Pittsburg Pennsylvania). The handle is hollow and has compartments for storing drill bits. The slots and pins that make the barrel rotate are internal to to keep them clean. This particular incarnation of the Yankee drill / screwdriver has a collet that only accepts drill bits of with a particular shaft size so you pretty much are stuck using the bitts that came with the drill ... from sixty years ago.

Cheers,
Tom

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We have the same problem with the bits, there is only the slot-bit left.

Actually Dad told me that he only kept the driver as a memory and probably threw the other bits away. >

Glad I didn´t know that when using the museum piece for real work  ;D

But what am I doing here in the office, I should be going.

I will get a fast snack at home and head for the workshop to get the mould done to be able to pour my ballast next weekend.

Greetings Timo,

You can probably find more bits on Ebay.

I just looked for the Stanley, and there are Yankee model 41's for sale, in the original box, with all of the original bits included, for $10 to $30.

Here are a couple more photos of some of Dad's other Stanley drills.

Cheers,
Tom  

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Well, it´s been a long time since I posted any progress.

I have been redoing things in the workshop, dust removal, new installation of power tools etc. And doing some small things to test things. I also waited for a delivery of waterglas to finish my mould and crucible. Everything is now set and scheduled for next weekend, the big day is going to be on Saturday unless it will be raining cats and dogs. I will be working outside so heavy rain would be a show stopper.

Please don't forget the photos, even if it is just rain.  Rain you say, why?  None to speak of in 85 days!!  It is a bit parched right now.  8) 8) 8)

Bud my typing is worse than my spelling so it only gets worse.    8) 8) 8) 8)

As I recall, Peter used to use a Yankee screwdriver on the prototypes until around the late-'70's or so, when he started using two drills (corded, as that's all there were; I remember how much funthat was, dragging the cords through the glue and knocking out the screws I'd just pre-set with my then-totally-glue-coated fingers...Batteries are our friends!

I started using brace-and-bits after finding a beautiful old 1/2" bit in a heating duct in our house (must have been dropped there in the '40's). I really like the control and mellow wood-eating feel of them. Am I wrong in assuming that nice planes would give a similar tactile pleasure?

Mike

yea and I sterted out with a sand rock and a hatchet, but I have upgraded a little bit. I make very little progress with electric tools so I am afraid to back up to dad's bunch of junk. Bud