I may never get this tool back!

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Nick2cd

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....but I'm ok with that!  Guess I'll just have to get more to keep both of us busy.



 
Somebody is heading for bankruptcy!!!!
To get the addiction started at such an early age is a crime in some places. ;)
 
It's the one disadvantage of T-locs over the old systainers...kids can open them!
 
RL said:
It's the one disadvantage of T-locs over the old systainers...kids can open them!
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  ha Ha, on the floor with that one... [big grin] [big grin]
 
From an early age I started buying my son proper tools (including some power tools). We bought him a modest size tool chest and kept it in a safe place. Miles knew that if he got a tool as a gift he'd be the only one to use it and it would go live his tool chest.

He doesn't have any Festools and I'm certainly not going to give him any in the near future! [blink] [big grin]
 
The photos of the CXS holding the child swept me back to my fifth birthday in 1937. My paternal grandfather I called A'Pa was just starting to teach me fine furniture making using only hand tools. That was when he gave me my first tool, a Yankee push drill from Stanley. Wisely my mother had previously insisted that A'Pa remove the special drill bits. Mom took custody of those, only letting me have one at a time when I was using that push drill under her supervision. I remember carrying my drill with me every place I went all summer. I slept with it resting on a folded hand towel on the table beside my bed.

Sure, I purchased a B&D drill when those went on sale in 1946. I probably have paid for over 1,000 drills of various brands, styles and sizes since then, including all the CXS I give to every master cabinet maker working for me on the first anniversary of their employment.

Still, my original now 77 year-old Yankee push drill still has an honored position in my carry-around tool case. Sometimes when all I need is a tiny pilot hole, I do not need to plug in a drill or even make sure the battery is charged. I pick up that Yankee drill and am done in seconds. I don't even mind that it is polished chrome and not Festool Navy Blue and Emerald Green.
 
That second picture says it all.  Good luck getting it back!
 
ccarrolladams said:
The photos of the CXS holding the child swept me back to my fifth birthday in 1937. My paternal grandfather I called A'Pa was just starting to teach me fine furniture making using only hand tools. That was when he gave me my first tool, a Yankee push drill from Stanley. Wisely my mother had previously insisted that A'Pa remove the special drill bits. Mom took custody of those, only letting me have one at a time when I was using that push drill under her supervision. I remember carrying my drill with me every place I went all summer. I slept with it resting on a folded hand towel on the table beside my bed.

Sure, I purchased a B&D drill when those went on sale in 1946. I probably have paid for over 1,000 drills of various brands, styles and sizes since then, including all the CXS I give to every master cabinet maker working for me on the first anniversary of their employment.

Still, my original now 77 year-old Yankee push drill still has an honored position in my carry-around tool case. Sometimes when all I need is a tiny pilot hole, I do not need to plug in a drill or even make sure the battery is charged. I pick up that Yankee drill and am done in seconds. I don't even mind that it is polished chrome and not Festool Navy Blue and Emerald Green.
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Hear, hear, on the Yankee push drill.  I've only had mine for 41 years or so, bit it's one useful tool, as is the older spiral screwdriver.

 
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