Some Old Power tools that still work, Classics! How old are they?

[oldtools]

Very old Black & Decker Electric Impact Hammer chisel/Drill
(but drill bit is rotated by hand with bit holders shown)

Old 1/2" Stanley Drill, (will rip arm off if not careful).

Old SkilSaw wormgear 7 1/4" saw cuts through anything..

They all work great!!

Would like to know how old they are??

[oldtools]

Found info on the Black & Decker Elec. Hammer on EBay, old 1953 Ad on catalog page.

still looking for SkilSaw info, hard to read nameplate, where else would info be?

Remember my Dad using that Stanley 1/2" drill when I was a Kid, at least from 1960's.. Drilled through concrete floors for termite treatment.

[Branson]

The first clue is that the casings aren't plastic.  It is now illegal to manufacture electrical tools with metal casings.  If somebody here knows the date for the change to plastic casings, we'll have the end date for these tools.  The Skill saw is probably early to mid 1950s.

[Dakota Woodworker]

Don't know about their age but I like that Skil saw.  Those old things last for a long time.

[oldtools]

Cleaned up tools & lables, used my magnifying glasses & weighed the tools.

Skil Portable Saw, model 77, 12Amp, ser# A410167, ~17 lbs.
Stanley Electric Tools. mod/type 566-G catagory-6 Ser# DR2321, no load RPM-3500, load RPM 2600, 7.5 Amp. New Brittan Conn. USA. ~20 lbs.
Black & Decker electric Hammer, Type N?? label in wooden box Form ?? 3-19-65, ~11 lbs. ~15" (~25 lbs with box & accessories.)

[BDFan1981]

Cleaned up tools & lables, used my magnifying glasses & weighed the tools.

Skil Portable Saw, model 77, 12Amp, ser# A410167, ~17 lbs.
Stanley Electric Tools. mod/type 566-G catagory-6 Ser# DR2321, no load RPM-3500, load RPM 2600, 7.5 Amp. New Brittan Conn. USA. ~20 lbs.
Black & Decker electric Hammer, Type N?? label in wooden box Form ?? 3-19-65, ~11 lbs. ~15" (~25 lbs with box & accessories.)

Your Skil 77 appears to be one of the first issues as it does not yet bear the modernized SKIL and SKILSAW lettering.

~Ben

[oldtools]

From Skilltools.com, looks like the early Model 77 is 70+ years old and still made..

The driving force behind SKIL has always been innovation, going back to the Model E circular saw. Introduced in 1924, The Model E was the first portable circular saw, pioneering the use of a worm drive and a die-cast aluminum motor housing. Its successor, the Skilsaw® Model 77 became the bench-mark of portable circular saws. And seven decades later can still be found on virtually every construction site in America.