Milwaukee Hammer Drill

[Roberts210]

Got this D-handle hammer drill today. It's pretty minty, even the steel box. I bought it from the original owner, who was a home-owner, not a Contractor for $85. Not a sucky price, but I was happy.

This replaces a D-handle drill that was stolen from my shop some years back by hispanic gang members. (They cleaned me out of my Milwaukee tools, and came back looking for more tools sometime that afternoon when I was there). The one that was stolen was a D-handle, non-hammer drill. I was looking at some D-handles on ebay and CL and saw this one. It fits perfectly with my Rotary Hammer, cause I can't drill concrete below 1/2" with the Rotary Hammer. But with this one I can drill 1/8th to 1/2. And I can shut off hammering very easy.

 

[woody 73]

Op, Op ,Op come on now finish the story "they came back and I was home"...So did you kick some ****, call the cops, chase them with the drill, hit them over the head with a lead pipe, shoot them, etc. ?

Not to kill a super killer great story but just how old is that drill in question? was it made before 1966 making it vintage or was it made at least in the 1960's for a vintage status?

 

[MShaw]

This is a 1/2" Porter Cable with a story. When I was living in Ct. in 1973 I had a friend that worked for a steel fabricating shop that made and installed railings. This drill died on the job so my friend brought it back to the shop and tossed it under his bench. After a month of no interest by management he brought the drill home and gave it to me.

I had to replace a missing brush cap and install new brushes. It then ran but with a dead spot. I disassembled it and found one wire on the armature was burned off where it was attached to the commutator. I carefully unwound one turn of wire to get enough length to reattach it to the commutator. It has been used extensively since with no problems.

My total investment was less than $3.00 for brushes and one cap.

 

[Roberts210]

Woody, I had my shop in the bottom of a two-story garage in the back of a guy's house in West L.A. This was in 1997. Another guy lived up stairs from the garage--a crazy actor from N.Y., so I thought I was safe, as the actor would come racing downstairs with a .357 in his hand whenever he heard anything suspicious. But the gang members came one Sat. night when he was gone. They took my Milw. D-handle drill, an old Porter Cable worm-drive locomotive belt sander, my Delta (old style) tenoning jig, my tool box with all my wrenches etc., some ahhhh... artistic photos of my girlfriend, and my boombox (of course). I came over on Sunday morning after church and found what had happened. And an hour after I got there a low-rider Chevy with 4 gang-scum inside came slowly cruising down the alley, and as they went by me one of them cat-called out, "Hey maaaaaaan... how you doin? Heh heh heh heh heh heh." And I thought to myself, I am damm glad I don't have my shotgun with me.

 

[Roberts210]

I did call the cops, and they took fingerprints, but nothing ever came of it.

Good catch MShaw! Looks like a sturdy old drill.

 

[Roberts210]

Oh, I left out the juicy fact that they discovered the box I was storing all my vintage Stanley planes that were worth a lot more than the tools they took. They opened that box but left it sitting on the floor.