You need to join the SHOP-TALK list on team.net. If those guys don't know
how to fix it, it can't be fixed!
Allen Hefner
Norristown PA
On 5/6/06, b-evans@earthlink.net <b-evans@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Back in 1946, my dad decided to build a third bedroom on our house, and
> set about doing it himself. One of the tools he bought was a big, and I
> do mean big half-inch drill. After the bedroom was completed, the drill
> was used off and on for different projects. Now, 60 years later, it has
> given out, and and given up the ghost! I have taken it to a couple of
> tool repair shops, but they just shake their heads and have no idea how
> to take it apart and repair it.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? It is a half-inch drill made by the
> Thor Industrial Pneumatic Tool Co. of Aurora Ilinois, and was their
> Model 6579. The company, it seems, must have passed into history as
> Americans wanted cheaper tools.
>
> Buster Evans
|