A coworker is cleaning out his Dad's tools and I was able to buy this. An old Black & Decker 1/4" right angle drill. It has no reverse and is a single speed but I still love it. Putting in the AC in the Plymouth I was able to use it a couple of times. W/O it there would have been a lot more dis***embly.
I've got one - come in handy. Like any tool, sits around until you need it, but then you're glad you have it.
Back when Black and Decker made a quality tool! I gave up on them the year they dropped everyone at their MD plants right at the Thanksgiving holidays...they've created plastic-case garbage can-liners since then.
We had one in the tool crib at work, for all I know it's still going. That and a shortened drill bit has saved me a lot of engine pulls for broken exhaust studs.
I have a similar attachment for my standard drill, it fits into the chuck for low-clearance angled work. Definitely one of those tools that you might only need once or twice, but can save a project that would stall or be impossible otherwise.
is that case made of metal? handy tool either way. I have the first drill I ever bought. black and decker. probaly 1976 or so. thing would not die... I finally bought a Milwaukee, not because I needed it, but I wanted the drill to match my sawzall and grinder.
I bought that same exact tool at Long Beach swap last year. Just used it a few weeks ago and it is really a sweet tool.
Buy screw machine length drills to use with it. They are much shorter and stronger as the web is a little thicker.
Boy do I remember lusting after one of these. A cast aluminum body means that it is old. The right angle drills were expensive back then and only the pro mechanics had one. Great for under the dash. If you stepped up to the plate for one of these then you were a die hard or a tool freak. I was a tool lover and this is one of those lusted after tools that I could never justify but always wanted. To me they are an icon of the past.
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