And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Brace and Bits - great tool for when you want to work in quiet environment. Also easy to drive screws slowly so as to not damage materials and back them out if mistake is made.
My grandpa was a carpenter who emigrated from Germany as an adult in the early 1900s. I have his daily tool kit, along with the partitioned wooden box that he undoubtedly made himself. Among other assorted hand tools of the time, there are two braces and a huge assortment of well-sharpened bits. The whole kit weighs north of 75 pounds. My oldest son, an electrical/mechanical engineer in whom I endowed a love of construction and tools, will be its next caretaker.
Still have Dad's brace but the swivel handle has wire he wrapped around it to keep it together. I used it a lot as a kid drilling through posts to install hinge bolts for livestock gates. Yes, I was a kid before we had an electric drill. All the bits are still in a rack and useable.
Excellent tool for driving screws when you need more leverage and the ability of find control & pressure. And +1 that you don't have to worry about it being charged...
Picked up a USAF surplus-ed lineman kit at a ham radio festival that included brand new set of braces and bits - the bits still in wax to protect the tips and cutting edges.. Added to my collection of random smaller drills, including two of the fine-drilling versions that look like an old hand mixer. Still watching for the mega version with the chest brace to keep the pressure on.
Drilled poles with these doing cable construction in the 60's. Electric drills were dangerous, as they would hang up and twist you off the pole! Have a collection of maybe 25- 30 including one of the first American patents from the 1830s and a patent that drilled in corners. Many of the earlier English and French drills, I think, are some of the most beautiful hand tools ever made. Bubbarust
Brace and Bits - great tool for when you want to work in quiet environment. Also easy to drive screws slowly so as to not damage materials and back them out if mistake is made.
ReplyDeleteThird tool after a hammer and flat blade screwdriver I ever used.
ReplyDeleteI bought a chuck that snaps onto my 1/2" speed wrench to use as a brace. Works great.
ReplyDeleteI have one from 1865 that will be restored this summer.
ReplyDeleteSame with the 13 auger bits too.
My grandpa was a carpenter who emigrated from Germany as an adult in the early 1900s. I have his daily tool kit, along with the partitioned wooden box that he undoubtedly made himself. Among other assorted hand tools of the time, there are two braces and a huge assortment of well-sharpened bits. The whole kit weighs north of 75 pounds. My oldest son, an electrical/mechanical engineer in whom I endowed a love of construction and tools, will be its next caretaker.
DeleteStill have Dad's brace but the swivel handle has wire he wrapped around it to keep it together. I used it a lot as a kid drilling through posts to install hinge bolts for livestock gates. Yes, I was a kid before we had an electric drill. All the bits are still in a rack and useable.
ReplyDeletework good as long as the bits are good too
ReplyDeleteOnly one? I keep one that works with modern bits in my Jeep just in case. No battery to worry about.
ReplyDeleteExcellent tool for driving screws when you need more leverage and the ability of find control & pressure. And +1 that you don't have to worry about it being charged...
ReplyDeleteRemember,I own one!
ReplyDeleteI inherited my Dad's along with several bits of various diameters.
ReplyDeleteNemo
Still have my dads hand-me-down.
ReplyDeleteI have 2 that were passed down to me from my late father. No bits though [insert sad face here].....dunno where they ended up.
ReplyDeleteazlibertarian
Ditto
DeletePicked up a USAF surplus-ed lineman kit at a ham radio festival that included brand new set of braces and bits - the bits still in wax to protect the tips and cutting edges.. Added to my collection of random smaller drills, including two of the fine-drilling versions that look like an old hand mixer. Still watching for the mega version with the chest brace to keep the pressure on.
ReplyDeleteMandatory use in junior high wood shop class - no electric tools for us!
DeleteUsed them plenty of times at the top of a pole standing on hooks when I was in the Navy.
ReplyDeleteDrilled poles with these doing cable construction in the 60's. Electric drills
Deletewere dangerous, as they would hang up and twist you off the pole! Have a
collection of maybe 25- 30 including one of the first American patents from
the 1830s and a patent that drilled in corners. Many of the earlier English and French drills, I think, are some of the most beautiful hand tools ever made.
Bubbarust
Still have mine from the late 70s. They can be handy sometimes.
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