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Hand Drill from an Old Egg Beater and a Pegging-Awl Chuck (Boy Mechanic, 1913)
A light hand drill for wood or metal: the geared crank of a rotary egg beater drives a chuck taken from a shoemaker's pegging awl, and broken sewing-machine needles ground to a point make the drills.
Intermediate
Two hours
Instructions
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Read the Boy Mechanic
Read the Boy Mechanic
"With these two pieces of apparatus I made a hand drill for light work in wood or metal."
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Strip the beater
Strip the beater
Take the long wire beater out of the egg-beater frame and solder a wire nail (C) to the frame (D) in its place. Cut off the flat arms and shape them as at E.
Materials for this step:
Rotary Egg Beater1 piece
Nails1 piece
Tin-Lead Solder1 pieceTools needed:
Flat-Nose Pliers
Hacksaw
Soldering Iron3
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Mount the small gear
Mount the small gear
Drill out the hole in the small gear (G), fit a tube (F) in it and solder the tube to both the gear and the arms E.
Materials for this step:
Brass Tube1 pieceTin-Lead Solder1 pieceTools needed:
Hand DrillSoldering Iron4
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Assemble
Assemble
Slip the tube, gear and arms over the nail, add a washer, cut the nail to length and rivet it over for a loose but neat fit. Solder the stem (B) of the awl's chuck (A) to the ends of the arms.
Materials for this step:
Flat Washer1 piece
Awl1 pieceTin-Lead Solder1 pieceTools needed:
HammerSoldering Iron5
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Make the drills
Make the drills
Break sewing-machine needles off above the eye and grind the ends to a drill point.
Materials for this step:
Sewing Machine Needles1 pieceTools needed:
Grindstone6
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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Egg-beater drill troubleshooting.
Flow
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History and honest limits
History and honest limits
From **The Boy Mechanic, Book 1** (Popular Mechanics, 1913), p. 444, by R. B. J. (checked on the archive.org scan boymechanic0000unse_n5a8). The pegging awl is listed under the general Awl head.
Materials
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