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Or how about this one
There's a sucker born every minute.
GWE
If this is what I think it is, I just bought one so I could take the door off an old refrigerator.
Dick
Note also that the number of keywords in the title which are not justified is interesting:
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1) Leveling feet foot 2) Starrett 3) lathe 4) platform 5) machine shop ======================================================================Certainly, (2) and (3) need not apply, even if the others sort of fit. (I've grouped the words as I think they belong, since the seller did not bother to use commas. :-)
The real Starrett machinists' jacks are *much* better construction, with enough options to support all kinds of weird shapes on a planer or shaper table, or on a milling table.
BTW They closed at $31.00. :-)
Apparently at least three of them in this auction. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
Actually, this is a really cool attachment. At work I can drive hundreds of screws in one day with my pneumatic screw gun. I just hold the trigger down and go from screw to screw. Of course the motor won't run until the bit is pushed in, but the principle is the same. Not worth it for a handful of fasteners, but if I did lots of 'em I'd be all over it.
The two Weidmuller screwdrivers I had did not have a trigger. Just set the predetermined torque required by the size terminal strip screw you were tightening and push. Pushing activated it, stalling stopped it. Very fast when you have 500 to 1000 terminations to make, but very pricey.
Pete Keillor
Don't laff yet....
I'm gonnna be interested in seeing what the toy tool collectors (like me) bid this one up to.
I've got a Sears Craftsman "Reversing Speed Reducer" from the same era which I bought new in the 60s, before variable speed, reversing and torque limiting clutches were a twinkle in "drill motor" designers' eyes.
It's about 3" in diameter and intended to be chucked in a quarter inch drill. Planetary/differential gears inside reduce the speed. There's a ribbed collar on the outside you grip to make the differential gearing exert torque on the output shaft, you modulated the torque by letting that collar slip through your hand.
The clutch collar can be snapped up or down to make the output rotation CW or CCW. The output shaft had a "Yankee Screwdriver" type spring chuck to hold 1/4" shank screwdriver blades.
It worked great back then when I needed it, now it's just something to look at and remember those halcyon younger days.
Jeff
My landlord has one of those in the toolbox here. Took me literally months to figure out what the heck it actually did, since I never actually chucked it up. And now I find out what it's acutally intended for... Neat :)
Hey I have one of those in my tool stash. If you find out that collectors want yours let me know and I will put mine up for sale :-) (after you sell yours)
Bill K7NOM
jeff - I have one of these exact tools, (the screw driver attachement with internal gear reduction) - I got it with "blue chip stamps", if you can remember when markets gave you these "savings stamps" as a premium for shopping there - I think filling stations gave these out too - there were "blue chip" and S&H gree stamps - I may even have part of a book filled with them still.
These things are great - with an old style 1/4 inch drill you can get a lot of torque and a reasonable speed, and you can modulate hte speed by letting the outer rim slip in your hand a little.
We shall see what the cheezy thing I listed on ebay brings - so far only your bid but maybe someone will come to the rescue and make me rich
ok guys - make my day, buy this piece of sh*t
Heck yes, I remember them well. And I also emember the ration stamps and tokens my mom needed to buy meat and butter during WWII. I still have her little black change purse with some of the coin shaped fibre "one point" tokens in it.
S&H is still around, only they're computerized now:
Hi Jeff,
I still have mine and use it regularly. Do you have the accessories (sockets, adaptors, bits) and blown plastic case yet?
It works great chucked in a Dewalt 3/8 inch VSR drill motor. You get much more control, torque and is a whole lot easier on the drill motor. A stalled, grunting motor really makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. With a reversible drill you don't have to fuddle around changing its rotation either. Just flip the drill switch and go.
And here I thought I was the only fool still using one of those nifty old gizmos ;-)
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