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Old 2nd Sep 2018, 10:19 am   #1
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Attended a local auction this week. Came away with a reasonable DAC11 to play with, as if I needed any more sets.
Also a Wolf electric drill. The first double insulated model they made think, 2 speed gearbox, unused in its mouse nibbled box with lots of drills. I remember that this was the one before the Sapphire plastic cased one. It is a 1960s model, the Sapphire was late 60s I think. Silver and red livery, later were silver and blue.
Unused because the mains lead has never had a plug fitted! The tinned ends on the long stripped wires and the little "Live" label on the red one still there.
The aluminium case had suffered a little surface corrosion on the areas that were not painted, like where the trigger slid and the lock button. This had caused the trigger action to partly seize and prevent it turning off. Inside it is all green passivated, very nice.
A strip down and fettle was called for, and Lo, hiding in the rear, a Rifa ready cracked translucent capacitor!
On examination, the plastic is cracked around both leads, slight discolouration inside, just waiting to become a smoking stink bomb.
In the interests of originality, Ha! I just snipped the live wire and left it to age some more.
Reassembled it is a fine tool, masses of torque and according to the box a "virtually indestructible motor" inside. Certainly beautifully engineered.
Sam.

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Just an update if anyone cares, Drill is Super Safety Master SM2A serial# 1266 so possibly 1966.
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Definitely very interesting and a very nice find. Take a photo or two and add them, with a bit of the description from above, to the "Show us your drills" thread which has just gone back up to the top of this page.
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