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    Joining sping steel?

    I have a 1930s manual typewriter with a broken spring steel motor (which powers the carriage along as you type). It parted in mid-length, and the spring is about a quarter-inch wide, one mm thick and maybe five feet in length. While I seek a replacement, which may be a tough search, is there any...
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    Eggbeater drills

    I just picked up a 1950s Craftsman eggbeater hand drill for $2 at a thrift store, and the 1950s is about the last time I used one. It cleaned up and works fine. I think it's a solution to a problem I've had in that every drill bit set I've bought in the intervening years, the first bits to die...
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