Another old tool that I got from my grandpa. It is supposed to be 220 but is was converted to 110. Still works fine, used it today. I suspect it had way more power before the conversion. I wonder if it would be difficult to convert back to 220. Just has an on off switch. I understand why they quit doing that. As I understand, it was made in germany in the 1930's. Pretty cool old drill.
1930's siemens schuckert drill
- Thread starter Dajn
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Ok thanks. I will get to that soon.
Fretters
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Those are a lovely drill, both to look at and use. The on/off switch with those isn't as dangerous as you'd expect, if it snags. As I found out quite early on, it gets toggled off by your knuckles if the drill starts to twist in your grasp. 
Stuart in MN
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It will have the same power, no matter which voltage it runs on,. It just draws more current at 120vac than it would at 240vac. Also, it will run on 60 Hz, just faster than it would at 50 Hz.
ttpete
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It has a universal motor. It'll run on DC also. Frequency doesn't matter because it's not a synchronous motor.
DuroChrome
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So this is a DC motor with brushes and a rectifier? I don't see any brush access covers, but I'm not too familiar with 1930s drills either.
Fretters
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Universal motor. The brushes on that one go where that black slotted head cap is on the side, one brush per side.