Thursday, September 03, 2009
The Cole Drill
Toolmonger: "The Cole Drill is a type of ratchet drill that consists of a post assembly clamped to the workpiece (such as an I-beam or large tube) and a drill assembly attached to the post that feeds downwards by a screw and turns with a concentric ratchet. The assembly allows great drilling pressure at low speed so that large diameter holes can be drilled in steel entirely by hand."
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It's easy to forget in our shop - and our industry as a whole - that occasionally hand tools are better suited for a job than power tools. Most of the time we want to go fast and have a tool that will allow that, but occasionally a hand tool will do the job better, faster, or more easily. My high school woodshop had a hand-powered drill press mounted to the wall, which I enjoyed for it's simplicity. As an added benefit, it cut cleaner because it's bits were almost never used and thus still sharp.
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