2 drill odd bits...2 questions
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timgunn1962
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The first one is for use with a Brace. Old school: turned by hand.
The second is for drilling holes then rotary-filing them into slots, etc. It looks way past its best.
The Brace has been rendered largely obsolete by cordless power tools.
The drill-and-file jobbie was never good, IME. It had a place in my site box as the least-poor available way to deal with some unforseen problems. If the problems were forseen, I'd take a better solution, usually a router or die grinder.
The second is for drilling holes then rotary-filing them into slots, etc. It looks way past its best.
The Brace has been rendered largely obsolete by cordless power tools.
The drill-and-file jobbie was never good, IME. It had a place in my site box as the least-poor available way to deal with some unforseen problems. If the problems were forseen, I'd take a better solution, usually a router or die grinder.
readhead
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Mr. Gunn explained it perfectly. Maybe you could sell them to a collector.
RTM
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Your square tanged brace bit seems to have an extra lump attached to it that I don’t recognize. Is that stuck there, or attached.
top left of pdf 248
top left of pdf 248
Stowe Supply Company : General Catalog No. 30 : Stow Supply Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
798 p., illus., 27.7 cm, trade catalog
archive.org
dutchgray
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The only time I use a brace nowadays is if you have to drill right in a corner or against a wall and can't drill at an angle, as using a ratchet brace you can get in closer than any drill. This is a once every few years occurrence. Last time was to let in a curtain pole into an oak beam a little so that the curtain would go over enough when open to not block some of the window.
It's a random piece of weld or something.Your square tanged brace bit seems to have an extra lump attached to it that I don’t recognize. Is that stuck there, or attached.
top left of pdf 248
Stowe Supply Company : General Catalog No. 30 : Stow Supply Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
798 p., illus., 27.7 cm, trade catalogarchive.org
seber
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Lynn beat me to it. Sheetrock bit. It was replaced by Rotozip and now carpenters us multitools.
ttpete
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The second one looks like a gimlet point.