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here is a new one

Ernie Miller

>last night I was installing the greek colomn in the sun room I had to bolt four L brackets on the top and bottom. The bottom ones had to be sunk into concreet and secured with Contec screws made for concreet. I was using power tools for the most part hammer drills are nice for them jobs. but when it came time to set the screws my drill wasn't gettin the screws tight befor jumping out of the phillips hed screws. I finaly thought if I could put more weight on the drill maybe they would go. I went to the dhop and grabbed my two speed Millers Falls brest drill chucked up a ned bit put it to my chest in a push up kind of position and drove them babys home pretty easily. My nephew who was helping me couldn't beleave that a hand tool coud do somthing a power tool couldn't.

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Hammer drill!?! Ernie...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>You didn't pull out the star drive drill and a 5Lb. sledge hammer? Oh the shame of it all...

Well at least you showed the Nephew a thing of two.

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Marv

>Ernie...

What model Millers Falls was it? I have a whole bunch of tham thangs. My favorite is the No.97, the mother of all breast drills. (was that a pun?) The No.97 has two breast plates, one huge sucker that clamps onto a smaller one. I have seven of these No.97,s that I have refurbished.

Marv

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I find that on a smaller scale

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I can sometimes finish driving, say, a #8 sheet metal screw into wood with a hand driver when the power driver is just jumping out of the screw.

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