[Techman]

There's certainly some interesting drills and stories being posted. I seem to remember that there's been a previous thread on this subject, although I can't remember contributing to it myself - if I can find it later (or if someone else can) I'll put a link to it in this thread for completeness.

Here's a couple more drills;

1) Black & Decker GD96, 13mm drill, 3 amp, 40 watts, 2 speed 750 & 1850 rpm, I can't read the voltage. I was given this drill years ago due to it being possibly faulty with excessive sparking at the commutator (sparking shown in the first picture below). I've never investigated it or even used it, but trying it today it certainly has plenty of power and doesn't smoke or overheat. Looking very closely at the voltage section of the specification plate I think I can possibly see a '1' and possibly a '5', but it's not clear, so I'm now for the first time wondering whether it's actually for use on normal mains voltage, or for a 'lower' voltage - no wonder it seems to have a lot of power and sparks if this is the case!

2)Tooltec Hammer, 13mm drill, 230v, 500 watts, 0 - 3000 rpm. Bought this a few years ago from a local discount supermarket. Not particularly vintage, but has been a really good drill. Cost less than a fiver brand new, I think it was actually something like £4.99 (which was about the same as I paid for the D500 sometime around 1968 I think, albeit at a discount price at the time) - how do they make something like this for that sort of price?