One of our neighbors is retiring and moving to the coast, so he had a shop garage sale this weekend. I picked up a little of this and a little of that. Included in my haul were two old push drills. One is a Goodell-Pratt and the other a Millers Falls. Both are model 188A as Millers Falls merged with Goodell-Pratt in the early 1930s. There’s a comprehensive set of pages on the Millers Falls company here, with detail on the push drills here.
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The two drills.
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Ok, bear with me, this is a little boring…follow the text around the handle…
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Pulling down on the catch allows the cap to rotate, exposing the drill storage compartments by size…
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The other one…
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I know, exciting!
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End on, with another earlier Greenlee drill I have. The caps on the 188As Seem to be riveted to the handle, where the earlier one uses a screw.
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To disassemble I pushed down on the drill slightly to take up some tension.
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And unscrewed the barrel.
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It’s stopped by the chuck…
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The chuck. Notice the pin.
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The chuck cap unscrews, although that wire ring acts as a spring detent so you have to wiggle and pull to get it all the way off.
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I clamped the knurled ring in the plastic jaws of a vise.
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And unscrewed the nut from the handle.
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The spring has a wooden guide – which is interesting, if you think about it.
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The other 188A has a screw instead of a pin retaining the jaws. I was unable to punch or press the pin on the other one out, so I gave up…
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With the screw removed the jaw assembly comes out. Notice how dirty it is.
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Two pieces and a spring for tension.
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The drill shanks are cruciform in cross section.
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They engage the jaws thusly.
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The screw and nut are a fast helix.
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An 8 start thread.
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When the drill is pushed down, 1-1/2” of travel turns it one revolution.
A little cleaning and oiling and the drills are almost nearly as good as new. And every now and then I’m sure I’ll use one.