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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: jimwrench on April 02, 2012, 04:13:27 PM

Title: spiral drill
Post by: jimwrench on April 02, 2012, 04:13:27 PM

 Heres a spiral drill that followed me home today. No markings. Only reason for buying was I hadn't seen one like this with a screwdriver type handle. Chuck is bronze or brass or beryllium or some copper colored material. Anyone have any history on this type of drill ?  I'm guessing its older than me.

Title: Re: spiral drill
Post by: rusty on April 02, 2012, 04:18:05 PM

Have not seen one....
The first thing that strikes me as odd, is it has a non-keyed chuck....

Title: Re: spiral drill
Post by: Branson on April 02, 2012, 06:53:23 PM

Some kind of variation on the Archimedes drill, looks like.  Quite cool!

Title: Re: spiral drill
Post by: missjess3717 on April 04, 2012, 06:02:50 PM

THAT DRILL IS TOO COOL, AND YOU ARE RIGHT, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS  BEFORE. VERY COOL!!!!!!!