Small breast drill

[Fretters]

Picked this up at a car boot last week. As some might know, I like hand powered drills, but this one also caught my eye due to the manufacturer.

It's made by FPU. Seeing as they only wanted the princely sum of £2 for it too, this little baby was coming home with me without a shadow of a doubt.

 

[OHMS LAW]

Was hoping it was a drill with ****

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I do like those two speed drills, still harder work than my cordless [emoji14]

 

[Fretters]

Was hoping it was a drill with ****

Wonder how much work would've ever actually got done if one of those ever existed?

 

[Fretters]

I do like those two speed drills, still harder work than my cordless [emoji14]

I know I tend to be a bit of a masochist in that regard, but I just love using the hand powered drills. I'll never win any awards for speed, but they are so nice to use.

 

[Chaznsc]

That's a beast. Nice find.

 

[Movover]

Is that how you pierce *******?

 

[grump]

I just had a 40x60 shop built by Amish and every screw was put in with one of those drills. Probably a couple thousand screws. It take about 1 3/4 turns to put in a screw. It's amazing to watch, they do it about as fast as I could with a electric cordless drill.

 

[code4pay]

I just had a 40x60 shop built by Amish and every screw was put in with one of those drills. Probably a couple thousand screws. It take about 1 3/4 turns to put in a screw. It's amazing to watch, they do it about as fast as I could with a electric cordless drill.

Thats awesome, did they use any other unusual hand tools?

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[DenisG]

Haven't seen one of those. Could you remove the cover over the gears so we could see them? (I know that this could seem like an immodest question.)

 

[Fretters]

I just had a 40x60 shop built by Amish and every screw was put in with one of those drills. Probably a couple thousand screws. It take about 1 3/4 turns to put in a screw. It's amazing to watch, they do it about as fast as I could with a electric cordless drill.

People do generally tend to think hand powered drills are slow going, but they can be just as quick as using a power drill, as you say. When used with sharp bits, they're no slouch. It's merely when you get to above 3/8" or so bits that that they can become a bit hard going, but that's more due to the tendency of the bit to ******. Hand drills are also extremely gentle on the bit, due to it being nigh on impossible to overheat a bit when drilling metal.

Haven't seen one of those. Could you remove the cover over the gears so we could see them? (I know that this could seem like an immodest question.)

Will do. I need to open it up to clean and lube it, so I'll take a photo or two whilst I'm at it.

 

[sometoyotaguy]

Looks like it's in decent shape. You may want to pull the cover off and make sure it's lubricated properly. More pics are always welcome as well.

 

[drivesitfar]

Fretters: i like the look of that little drill and i also like Bison (FPU) polish vices. any idea how old it is?

it also looks like you can use is on either side depending on which way or which hand you like you use?

i'd have bought it too and maybe even for a bit more money.

 

[Fretters]

Fretters: i like the look of that little drill and i also like Bison (FPU) polish vices. any idea how old it is?

No idea on the age of it, but I'm guessing 70's at the latest. Stuff like this was out of fashion after that point. Few people want to use hand powered drills these days.

it also looks like you can use is on either side depending on which way or which hand you like you use?

Those two drive shafts give different speeds. I think the lower one runs about 2:1.

 

[jeejay]

Found one at...

Looks like some kind of fetish wear.

 

[Outlawmws]

And here I'm expecting Fret to have posted one with an "A"Cup...

So you said small, what is it's length overall?

I used on of my 2 speed drills for many of the deck screws on the shed when I built it. It was even less work as the kids were practically fighting over who got to use it!

And yes, properly lubed they work amazingly well!

I once drilled through some steel 1/2 or 5/8 shafting when I was a kid with may dad's cheap *** small hand drill. That was when I learned that they need oil to not lock up... it took forever to get the hole however as the bits my dad had were dull beyond belief.

 

[jeejay]

Haven't seen one of those. Could you remove the cover over the gears so we could see them? (I know that this could seem like an immodest question.)

Saw a pic like that looking at the Schroeder...

 

[DenisG]

Saw a pic like that looking at the Schroeder...

Thanks for finding that. Curious gear in there. Doesn't seem to have a function:

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Thanks for finding that. Curious gear in there. Doesn't seem to have a function:

That looks to be the collar part of the large bevel gear (you can sort of make out a grub screw) and the part that looks like a small gear is in fact the over cutting from the gear cutter that produces the bevel gear if you see what I mean.

At least that is my guess.

 

[DenisG]

That looks to be the collar part of the large bevel gear (you can sort of make out a grub screw) and the part that looks like a small gear is in fact the over cutting from the gear cutter that produces the bevel gear if you see what I mean.

At least that is my guess.

Not sure if it's from over-cutting. Seems to be a spur gear right next to a helical one. I wasn't sure if that was a grub screw, but you're probably right. Maybe the factory just had a large batch of those gears that were made for another machine and they modified them to use on this drill. Wartime shortages maybe?

 

[CwazyWabbit]

The overcut isn't from the helical gear, the section with the grub screw in is part of the large diameter bevel gear that meshes with the small gear on the actual drill spindle. So the over cut is from cutting the big straight cut bevel gear.

 

[DenisG]

The overcut isn't from the helical gear, the section with the grub screw in is part of the large diameter bevel gear that meshes with the small gear on the actual drill spindle. So the over cut is from cutting the big straight cut bevel gear.

OK, I misunderstood. You could well be right. Thanks.