Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/19/05, 9:35 PM #1

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(
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Different Yankee Screwdriver

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>For the grand sum of $1 I picked up at the flea market this weekend a type of Yankee Screwdriver that I have not seen before. Instead of having a spring loaded chuck that hold the bit in place, it is threaded and have a knurled barrel nut, and the top if the blade instrad of being half-notched with a grove in the side, it is double notched on top leaving one a narrow cross-section on the top with no groove on the side. Says Millers Falls Mass and I beleive Pat. Applied For. I can't make out the letters Pat., but I'm sure that they where there. Any idea to it's age?

It has an issue tho. At the end of the handle there is a chrome sleeve, and this chrome sleeve came off the handle and some nit-wit continured to use it, and it is now firmly jammed onto the collet end. I dunno if I can tap it off with doing damage, and fiqured that I'd best leave it alone until I know if I've got a National Treasure or not.

Todd O.

Re: Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/20/05, 11:24 AM #2

Todd Hughes
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Todd Hughes

>Sounds like an early Millers Falls screwdriver using one of the older Goodell pratt designs and using the old type bits.There are sevral of these designs some of which have two spiral shafts with one collapsing into the other.If the spiral shaft that you can see has fluts going in one direction this is what you have, single shaft ones will have a double flute like you see on the common Yankees. I think the fact that they take a special and hard to find bit hurts thier vaule as well as it being not a good a design as a yankee.In my experance unless in near mint condition they are not worth much so I wouldn't worry much.I think yours vaule lies in the fact it has an original bit which you can put in the next one you find that is good but bitless .....Todd

Re: Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/20/05, 9:12 PM #3

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(
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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Got to agree that the best thing about this one is that it does have the bit. I have never seen this design before, so that fact alone excites me. The handle is covered in old cloth type electricial tape, which tells me that it has probably been split. Think I'll see if I can tap that end off the chuck. Really can't use it as it is anyhow.

Todd O.

Re: Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/20/05, 9:56 PM #4

Todd Hughes
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Todd Hughes

>Well it's hard to not buy a neat tool when it's only a $1 eh? I Used to see at the flea market lots of blankets with .25 cent ea. signs on them but seems to be a thing of the past now. Pretty rare to even see .50 cent ones anymore with most now being $1 or even $2 which just seems to me just to "Uptown".....hey Todd I know of your latest interst in old tool catalogs , just got a real nice original VBM era Sargent Catalog today...Even better came with a near mint Sargent VBM no. 2 size plane in a nice wooden box....EVEN better a friend who found it at a yardsale for $5 gave it to me!...All that Clean Living paid off I guess...Todd

Re: Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/20/05, 10:31 PM #5

Victor Parisian
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let me be the first to say....

Victor Parisian

>...you suck.

Re: Different Yankee Screwdriver

7/20/05, 11:41 PM #6

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(
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Somebody Shoot me Pleeeeeeeeeese!!!

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Damn Todd you sure know how to hurt a guy! ;~)

Congrats on the GREAT SCORES, yes, I mean scores, as each one is a score unto theirselves.

Dang, dang, dang, dang!

Todd O.

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