Homemade rig

[HeelSpur]

Got this at an auction last year, pretty wild looking but works good. Its brazed together pretty good.


DSCF2135 by wvwheaties, on Flickr
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Here's a couple more, got these for a friend who decided he didn't want them. Picked up over a dozen of them

DSCF2139 by wvwheaties, on Flickr
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[Private Lugnutz]

Got this at an auction last year, pretty wild looking but works good. Its brazed together pretty good.

But, but, but... why?! I can see how that contraption would still work as an egg beater, with the door knob on the end of the brace in the palm of one hand or breast basically making it longer, and the other hand working the crank. But I am trying (and failing!) to imagine how it would work as a brace. Wouldn't the crank/egg beater mechanism get in the way of the swing?

 

[HeelSpur]

But, but, but... why?! I can see how that contraption would still work as an egg beater, with the door knob on the end of the brace in the palm of one hand or breast basically making it longer, and the other hand working the crank. But I am trying (and failing!) to imagine how it would work as a brace. Wouldn't the crank/egg beater mechanism get in the way of the swing?

You got to have some wide open spaces to use it for sure. Its crazy but I reckon someone had a purpose for it.

 

[notlob]

Probably not home made - just repaired. Millers Falls and others made that style of "Drill Brace"; scroll down to models 182 and 192 on the page below. I've always assumed you used the eggbeater portion for speed and the brace portion for grunt.

https://oldtoolheaven.com/brace/brace4.htm

"In 1915, the company published Millers Falls Tools Catalogue No. 35. Within its pages were one hundred thirty-five variations on the hand brace—an astounding figure when you consider the basic simplicity of the tool. By 1938, however, the number of braces in the catalog had shrunk to thirty-five. In 1949, that number was reduced yet again, to thirteen."
https://oldtoolheaven.com/brace/brace.htm

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Interesting. Thanks, notlob. (I still wonder how many times somebody whacked themselves in the ulna bone or knocked something off a workbench with that eggbeater handle!)

 

[HeelSpur]

Probably not home made - just repaired. Millers Falls and others made that style of "Drill Brace"; scroll down to models 182 and 192 on the page below. I've always assumed you used the eggbeater portion for speed and the brace portion for grunt.

https://oldtoolheaven.com/brace/brace4.htm

"In 1915, the company published Millers Falls Tools Catalogue No. 35. Within its pages were one hundred thirty-five variations on the hand brace—an astounding figure when you consider the basic simplicity of the tool. By 1938, however, the number of braces in the catalog had shrunk to thirty-five. In 1949, that number was reduced yet again, to thirteen."
https://oldtoolheaven.com/brace/brace.htm

wow thanks, had no idea it was a real item. I'm going have to look it over good to look for markings.

 

[HeelSpur]

Found Rich-Con RC 10-B on the body, but Fulton U.S.A. 107.1 on the handle.
Richards-Conover hardware.

 

[rsanter]

A very old cordless drill

 

[Bill vonSteuben]

"not home made - just repaired. Millers Falls and others made that style of "Drill Brace"; scroll down to models 182 and 192 on the page below. I've always assumed you used the eggbeater portion for speed and the brace portion for grunt."

There ya go! Definitely a strong competitor in the Gizmocity of the Universe contest.