1910s Electric Breast Drill [Restoration]
This restoration is on a 1910s Model "B" electric breast drill made by the Temco Electric Motor Company. The tool was sent to me by a viewer who wanted me to bring it back to original condition.
I was immediately intrigued as this is the oldest electric drill I have ever had my hands on.
This drill was designed and produced before the trigger switch drill was brought to market so the switch design was incredibly interesting and complicated. The drill also had a ball bearing around the drill chuck shaft, which would have been quite expensive at the time. Temco also offered a grinding wheel attachment for sharpening drill bits as well as a valve grinding attachment. The drill is so old that it was made before electrical wall outlets were common and standardized, therefore the tool would have originally been plugged into a light socket.
Restoring this drill was quite a lot of work as all the bushing needed to be remade, aluminum castings repaired, gears brazed, and cast iron parts japanned.
This was a really fun project and I'll be sad to send it out of the shop, but happy when it gets back in the hands of the viewer who sent it.
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Wow! An Electric Drill for drilling only Breasts! Plastic Surgery in the 1910s was *_really wild!_*
It's constantly hot with electricity to stun the patient so they don't feel a thing. Very convenient!
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Your channel is by far my favorite when it comes to restorations on KZhead because you get the closest to your projects being actual restorations as opposed to refurbishments or something similar. You don’t destroy the history by obliterating casting marks, mirror polishing everything, and powder coating things that weren’t powder coated or even painted. You keep your restorations true to the history of the item and I respect that
Yeah I hate when they put putty on the metal castings to make them perfectly smooth.... they don't do that now for tools and they didn't do it back then either.
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👌👌👌lovely old all metal power tools ! ! !free from cheap plastic and fancy colors.big and beautiful too.
I bet this was insanely expensive when it came out new. I remember when my dad got a second hand AEG drill in the 60s, that was still expensive then. And it was still completely made of cast aluminum. If it had a electrical fault, you would notice it at once... :)
$58 in 1920, so around $850 today.
@@HandToolRescue Certainly not in reach of a hobby DIYer. Peculiar somehow... today you can still buy a electric drill for $58. But a coffee costs $3 instead of 5 cent back then.
850 is still kinda what you would pay for something really heavy duty today. I cant imagine this was bought to drill just a couple of small holes. Closest thing I would compare it to would be a mag drill.
My grandpa had an old drill that he only used when it was dry because if you were grounded through the wet ground, you got a nice zap. He still kept the drill, though, heh.
@@skunked42 Well, one thing is for sure: you got a lot of drill for your money back then - it must weigh 20 lbs or so. :)
These vids are simply perfect. You do it all right. Rarely seen on camera, excellent close in photography, great workmanship on interesting items and really funny at times. This is very rare. Some hosts want to invite you in as their beer buddy & some lecture before doing anything with the camera 6 inches away from their gobs. There's gotta be some award somewhere that we can nominate you. The golden screwdriver award !!
Perfect? Really? Can't watch what he's doing, too busy reading all the subtitles.
@@psirotta Well turn them off silly! There's a button for that, and you don't need them to follow along the dialogue ;P
I have only just noticed you caption the videos. A great touch and would take time. Definitely remembering this. 👍
God, every time I watch these it makes me want to buy a lathe. It just seems...so handy. No more cutting shitty gears by hand. No more trying to just get things "round enough". Being able to actually resize pins and shafts. The dream.
It's a lot of money work and practice to get good at it but yeah it rly does comin handy somthimes
Just got my friend one of your screwdriver kits as a wedding gift! Its so sick!
That has got to be one of the most overly designed most complicated and interesting drills ever invented! Awesome restoration!
Have you seen the apple peeler/corer he restored? That thing is a marvel of over engineering.
@@Vikingwerk yeah, but it works dang good and is fast!
As much as I want to judge my plastic brushless makita drill in the presence of beautiful old user-serviceable tanks, this one is a bit much. This is the first time I have felt I had a better chance of understanding a brushless ESC than the switching mechanism of an old brushed drill.
The first electric hand drill was build in 1895 and patened in 1900 by Fein in Germany. There is no asbestos in the wiering, they are isolated most likely with Guttapercha (a natural rubber) and cotton strings with tar or wax. I love these old machines and love to restore them. My oldest one so far was a priting press, from the late 1800 converted after WW1 to an electric motor.
What kind of press? Gordon, Kelsey, Chandler and price? Treadle powered? I'm an old school pressman and I love the old hand presses.
@@JamesThomas-gg6il, it is an Eyring from Germany, the company is called Wilke since 1911, if I am informed right. It hat a big hand cradle on the side. The " motor conversion" was a similar mechanic they used in the 1950s to power Church bells but much smaller. A friend of mine found it in a barn, he wanted to buy an old Lanz Buldog and ended up with alot of other stuff, the Buldog was sold only minutes before he arrived.
What i was about to type. Shellac was also used. Some swore it was asbestos in another comment lol i couldn't stop laughing at their ignorance.
@@Pimentel-Kreations you are right, Schellack was used verry often too. I can only laugh at these people, who think : Oh it is old, there must be asbestos in and it is radioaktive too. In an old Telephone Forum we have these questions weekly in summer when the yardsales and fleamarkets are every single day. In my freetime I do nothing else than restoring such old devices. If that really is the case, I must be found dead like a mouse and glowing in the dark many years ago.
He is not concerned about the wiring but about the mountingplate, wich looks to be made out some sort of a fibre-resin based material. I understand his concern.
You continue to provide me with countless hours of entertainment! Love your dry sense of humor and of course your mad fabrication skills. Keep it up!
This intro... Will I ever get tired of it ? I don't think so. This is pure gold
45:30 You might want to consider a step drill for thin material. They outperform twist drills in regard to distortion, warping and "biting" into the material.
I'm happy that someone else had this suggestion also. Step bits for thin sheet metal will change your life! Plus the next step in the bit acts as a deburing tool.
A wooden buck to back the thin material is also an option.
@@TheFurriestOne That was my first thought.
You beat me to it.
Or put a piece of cloth under the drill bit. Try it. Sounds crazy. Works perfectly. Thank me later.
The red insulating material is likely to be vulcanised fibre. It was formed as a sheet and then cut or pressed to shape. It is an excellent insulator with very good arc and creep properties. It was "superseded" by industrial plastics for most uses for many years but there is a now a resurgence in interest as the material is made of cellulose fibre and zinc chloride and is thus entirely renewable, unlike most plastics.
Ah, yes. Thank Heaven for those cellulose fibre mines and those fabulous zinc chloride wells! And the laughing besmocked peasant girls who collect these ingredients which virtually throw themselves out of the ground into their baskets! And the cheery sounds of their gay traditional songs ringing through the woods as they help to keep making the motors that blow cold air up the arse of yet more entitled Chelsea Tractor drivers.
@@garyjonah22 The cellulose fibre mine would normally be called a tree. Although the world is actually running out of zinc, the world production of vulcanised fibre represents less than 10,000 t of zinc from a global production of more than 12 million t. The vulcanised fibre zinc requirement could be produced from seawater so in a way you are right, in that the ocean could be considered a well of sorts.
@@lyrebirdcyclesmarkkelly9874 Oh, how silly of me. I'd forgotten about those Cellulose Fibre Tree plantations where each tree produces thousands of bales of pure, consistent, dry fibres ready for immediate use . Not so sure about the sea washing up sacks of purified zinc chloride conveniently close to the Vulcanized Rubber factory though. But you never know. I mean, anything's possible these days, what with the electricity wells and hydrogen mines that are being planned as we speak. By the way, do you ever hear unexplained loud whooshing noises?
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@@garyjonah22 you sound entirely unhinged and like you've never actually researched how these things are made. would you care to cut the sarcasm and say what you really mean
probably one of the most affable, and knowledgeable people on KZhead
A very fine job of restoration! 💯 As a veteran of the British '3-pin plug' fitting era I can attest to the frustration (and safety hazard) of trying to get multi-strand electrical wire caught underneath the head of a round-headed screw (bolt), particularly as time went on and manufacturers liked to cut costs by making the screw-head progressively smaller. The answer was those formed brass (?) ring washers with the multiple flanges including a tail with strain relief for the wire - strip and twist the wire, bend it around an electricians screwdriver and lay it on the washer. Then crimp up all the flanges with fine-nose pliers - almost as good as soldering and practically zero chance of a strand escaping to cause shorts. If I recall correctly they were ludicrously cheap (by today's standards) and should be used everywhere in a piece of equipment like the one shown.
How many OCD people had a fit with the name plate screws. I laughed so hard. My ex wife would hunt you down if she saw that. Lol. Awesome drill and awesome video. Thanks.
I had a fit about the wires all but one having ring terminals on the ends! haha But awesome videos as always !
Me encantan tu videos y tu sentido del humor. Eres grande!
I continue to admire your commitment to detail in your restorations. Lovely work!
I was just as suprises as you when the chuck fell off haha. Your reaction had me dying 🤣
They don't make em like they used to! Thank God! (There's something to be said for modern plastic housings that wont kill you with bad wiring.)
That wasn't done for your safety,but rather profit margin. They could have encapsulated the housing in hard rubber
Half this modern stuff is junk though.
@@timesthree5757 So was much of the old stuff. Its just that the old stuff is more repairable, so we tend to see it through that lens. Honestly, a cheap 18v Ryobi drill from Home Depot probably has similar power to this all metal machine, especially if it's the brushless version. As far as coating a metal drill in rubber goes, that would be dangerous since the coating would degrade and peel off over time, exposing a metal housing that could be live. I fix medical equipment for a living (I'm a Biomed) and my job literally came into being because of how unsafe electrical medical devices were designed back in the day. Plastics are inherently safer than metal when it comes to housings. They may not last 100 years, but then nothing has to. It is obsolete long before that is a real issue.
@@3rdworldgarage450 I own an 89f250 7.3L IDI Diesel. Live in a house built in 1898. Own a 79 bass boat with a 76 115hp Johnson. I never own anything new cause as a Mechanic I know that new stuff is junk. Yer paying 40,000$ for a throw away vehicle. Don't give me this, "modern cars are safer crap. Above 45mph yer dying". I've had to wrecker many new cars to know the safety argument is bull.
@@timesthree5757 Where did I say anything about cars? I was referring to electrical devices. I myself prefer to work on older vehicles and count among my fleet a 425,000 mile 1998 Nissan Frontier that I do all the work on myself. I dont daily it anymore as the nature of where I live and what I do demands a newer vehicle, but I definitely prefer old to new when it comes to cars. Power drills? Ill take my 18v Makita over anything from 50 years ago.
A craftsman who takes pride in his work. No half-axxing or corners cut here. I enjoy watching your videos. It began when I watched a video of an antique Ball Motor restoration you did. Thank you, Hand Tool Rescue.
this will get me trough this covid illness. Thank you
Man that switch rebuild was something else!
Magnifique travail de restauration ! On apprend beaucoup sur la façon de concevoir des mécanismes de la part de nos anciens ! Très belle vidéo , très bonnes images et explications !!!!!
I’m always amazed at the prowess with which you put these things back together. I mean breaking them down is one thing, but putting them back together is a whole other ball of wax.
I like the restoration. I have never seen a drill of that vintage. It is awesome to see old tools of that age come back to life.
That was an amazing restoration. Worth every moment of watching. Thank you for this great content. I truly enjoy this, and many of your other video's.
Amazing thing, I see for the first time. Professional renovation, thanks.
Awesome job on this unique drill. Oh by the way keep up with that humour in your blogs it’s what sets you apart from the rest once again great Blog keep it up the great work until next time.
Certainly one of the strangest power tools I've ever seen. You've got to hand it to the inventor. Very cutting edge for the day. Great work!
Love your sense of humour you bring to your rescues! The level of detail you go to is great. Speeding up and slowing down where necessary is a smashing feature, however the commentary description on the bottom of the screen covers other commentary and I find myself reading the commentary and somehow missing the action. Excellent skill set you make it look really easy.
Best restoration channel there is, no bullshit, no shitty epoxy, hell yeah!
As someone that has had to overhaul old tools because of personal poverty and need, the fact that you elevate necessity to art is a very beautiful thing to me. Thank you.
You did an amazing rework on this classic old tool, kudos for your craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing. 👍😁🇺🇸
I love that you chucked a chuck in a chuck.
Interesting restoration,surprised how intricate the drill is for its age.great video always enjoy with your antics.keep on doing what your thinking and doing 👍👍👍😎😎😎
Great work. Thanks for making great videos and narrating them for Patreons :D
It never ceases to amaze me at the complexity of the things you mess with. No matter how obscure they are you always manage to bring them back around. Bravo sir! 🤘🏻
Your videos are a breath of fresh air. Totally awesome. Brings peace to an otherwise chaotic world. Thank you. This is exactly what I want to do when I retire.
This thing looks like a waffle iron and sounds like an angry hair drier. Glad to see it got some love 👍
My “favorite” part of taking things apart are the mysterious screws that twist yet never come out. Fun but sometimes frustrating.
No matter how many times I watch this channel, the beginning intro with the glasses off smile gets me everytime. What a great way to start a show. You're a damn trip buddy. Great work too.
It gets me every time... the grazyness of the "take spectacles off and show the sunshine honey" photo moment...... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've just finished restoration of a 1962 Swiss made Hilti TE72,110v, Hammer/Dill. The best Breaker ever made.
7:14 Probably not asbestos. The standard wire construction back then was copper strands covered with natural rubber, then that was covered with a woven cloth jacket, then that usually had some sort of asphaltum type tar rubbed over it. So nothing really dangerous like asbestos. Asbestos was primarily used where you had super hot things like steam pipes you needed to insulate. Although wires in electrical appliances like drills get hot, if their fan is working, then the motor isn't getting so insanely hot that you'd need asbestos.
I thought he was referring to the terminal block, not just the wires. Asbestos was clearly not only used in high-heat situations because they made asbestos home insulation, flooring, and wallpaper for a long, long time.
They did those things out of asbestos for defense against high heat.... building fires. All three things were historically not fire resistant and led to many tragedies so they used the "miracle" fiber to slow the spread of fire.
@@TKing2724 Asbestos in it's original form looks like this: www.h2odistributors.com/global/productpics/misc/asbestos-photo-1_l.jpg It's like a rock composed of a million parallel rock threads So it crumbles easily and is not strong at all. No way you could make a terminal block out of it. That terminal block was probably bakelite or some sort of resin impregnated stuff like circuit board are made of, just much thicker.
@@jimthesoundman8641 I know what asbestos looks like. I'm sure you'll agree that it doesn't look like wallpaper or home insulation either, so that point's not really relevant. Ironically, pressed asbestos boards in electronics were very common, that's why I mentioned it, hah. Edit: Your post was removed because of the link, but I can still read it. I'm not trying to be a dick, you're just incorrect in saying the block can't be asbestos because asbestos is a rock.
@@These_Old_Engines Read this sentence again. "Asbestos was primarily used where you had super hot things like steam pipes you needed to insulate." That is not correct, it was also used as fire resistance in the home products I mentioned (and others).
a pleasure to watch. the item, the procedure, the editing, plus the final result.
So many small parts and their locations to keep track of. Outstanding job sir!!!!!
Has to be the coolest looking drill I have ever seen. I can already imagine someone making a steam punk ray gun out of one of those.
very good your work, better is the opening you made in the styles of the 80's series
The part where "the sand blaster was making noises" and you kept looking back, reminded me of Cast Away. Lol
I just witnessed true skill at it's finest. Thank you for sharing this. ❤️
The whole video, I was thinking about how many young guys picked up the drill and pretended that it was a Tommy gun.
I'm loving your vernacular as well as the minor changes the captioning does to it, I also truly enjoyed the quarter turn you gave to the screw on the label to attempt to set off my OCD, at least it was perpendicular to the other and not 30º… whew, crisis averted.
I love watching skilled crafts people demonstrating their skills but even more, I love watching them have fun. And you are clearly having fun.
Thank you for restoring something that hasn't been obviously tossed into a vibe table with a bin of seawater.
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I love your content. It's always relaxing and inspiring. 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for the trip back deep into electric hand tool time.
Beautiful restoration. An interesting power tool from the past.
Fantastic restoration, as always. The gear appeared to be previously repaired by brazing; was that truly the case? If so, why does it always get damaged at that particular location on the gear? Is it out of round or warped or something? Did you use Alumiweld to fix the cracked aluminum housing? I know, I know, it's on the inside, but did you consider using braided insulation wires to replace the older wiring you replaced? I sometimes do luthier repairs and modifications on electric guitars and everybody expects me to use braided insulation wires on their electronicals. You know, for that vintage feel.
Eric - Take apart a Dewalt Flexvolt battery sometime, to see an even more complicated mechanical switch. IIRC it's 6 bars and sliders, 12 posts, that shift from one position to the other every time the 60v plunger is depressed as you connect it to a 60v tool. It flips the 3x 5cells in series, from 3 parallel sets of 5 in series (20v, in triple), to 3 series sets of 5 in series (60v, in a long chain of 15 in series). And it's the size of a child's palm, on every battery.
i was wincing when you were forcing the new bushings in to the cases with the vice cause they looked a little tight. i was waiting for them to crack cause they look like old pot metal but you pulled it off! great job!
Fantastic restoration as always! Great job 👏
Yes! I was getting tired of watching people restore lighters, axes and bread slicers!
That and Malaysian dudes picking up old electronics, motorcycles, etc. from muddy riverbanks and 'restoring' them back to working order!🤣🤣
„ Hi, this is *generic restauration channel 69* and today we are restoring a spoon - with pink glitter epoxy!“ Thank god for the few people like Eric that do proper restaurations of old tools that don‘t take 30+ videos to complete.
That's the worst of all of them, hands down.
Would you like a knife restoration? Has that EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE? Seems complicated...
Agreed, there is only four proper tube restorers, this man, geoffrey croker, the post apocalyptic inventor and fingerprint workshop.
Something that was common until the 1950s with electrics was the chassis would be grounded, which meant that you had a 50/50 chance with the plug in placing it wrong way in electrifying the chassis, like in this case. The older plug types could be placed either way, unlike modern plugs.
No. People weren't that stupid in those days. Hot chassis electronics always had proper isolation so even if the chassis is live, you can not touch anything. Hot chassis devices are still plentiful. Most LED lighting drivers and solar inverters are of that type. The chassis (meaning the electronics) cannot be grounded ever, because that would cause a short circuit between phase and neutral (which is connected to ground somewhere). It's important to know the distinction between phase, neutral and ground. Any ground connections to such hot chassis devices, is purely a signal ground (such as for the radio reception ground). The case could be grounded if it's metal, of course. All antique devices i've had in my hands were designed to be safe to touch regardless of plug orientation. It was however a problem that occasionally due to vibration, isolation would wear through and electrify the metal parts. Working with that kind of power tool in the rain also caused many shocks. Van Der Heem (a dutch brand of power tools) knew this, and commercialized on making safer power tools in 2 different ways: double isolated tools that featured 2 layers of isolation (the conventional winding isolation, as well as a barrier of plastic or bakelite between any metal part you can touch, and anything carrying mains. This was common for the smaller tools. The 2nd one was to supply the tools with a 3 wire power cord, so it could be safely grounded. This was common for the super heavy tools. Because the metal case would be grounded, any leakage or short from the phase to the case, would be short circuited, which blows the fuse in case of a 'hard' leakage, or just keeps the case at ground potential when it's only a small leakage.
Since the drill was originally designed to be plugged into a light socket, it may have been grounded at that time, but someone made a mistake later, when modifying it to use a modern plug. As a random KZhead commenter, I should say that I have no particular expertise here, but it seems like an obvious explanation to me.
Excellent job as always. Thanks for sharing.
Another absolute masterpiece. Thank you for the super beautiful video🤗
A beautiful restoration as usual, sir! I only have one observation that I would change about what you did. I would install the ring eyes on both ends of the wires, not just one end. It looked kinda sketchy on the bare wire under those screws. It looks like that end could easily come out from under the screws causing a safety issue. Would it be a sin to add a ground to the motor and plug?
I think a ground will protect you from a short, but I think that the case is "hot". The old plugs had equal sized plug ends.If you got a tingle, you flipped the cord.
@@droopy_eyes we don't use that fake currency here. You would be suprised at how useful that old stuff is.
@@droopy_eyes Yes.
@@timesthree5757 That "fake" currency is worth more than USD.
@@rubiconnn no now it isn't. Also don't care.
When drilling the thin steel can on the drill press, you can use some cloth scrap on the drill bit to knock down the burrs as it cuts through and prevent the metal walking up the bit. It will make a clean hole without deforming the thin sheet metal.
Do I detect a fellow Mark Presling viewer in the wild?
I just love your videos! And it’s voodoo to me that you can ever put these things back together!
Congrats HTR on saving the 1910 Breast Drill. looks awesome afterwards. lv ur crazy videos.
Baiting the OCD viewers by not soldering a ring terminal on that one connection, well played... okay now put a damn ring terminal on it! A totally righteous restoration, by the way.
I noted that your hair wasn't standing straight out when you tested it at the end. Was the case still live? Just curious. Also curious what vintage that evap-o-rust liqueur is, lol.
Wired up backwards and energized the case
I always enjoy your work. I always know that it will be a true restoration and exactly as t would have been when it came from the factory. Thank you, sir, ...and ...I really appreciate your sense of humour.
Rapaz você me surpreende é show genial se tivesse um Oscar de melhor restaurador já era seu parabéns
Not really a complicated switch, it's basically a 2 pole 2 way switch that reverses the brush connections with respect to the field winding I'm not keen on that wrapped around wire without a cup washer, i would have hoped you put a ring on it, and hope that you connected a ground wire
I was sure it was a joke, especially when he moved the wire, and still didn't put a terminal on the end.
Personally, I have found a step drill to be indispensable when I need a hole in thin material, as they are far less likely to grab and pull.
Step drills work great. You can also put a block of wood on the back side to support the thin steel and let the drill bit go through both the sheet steel and the wood, this will also prevent it from bending.
Such cool tools you find to restore, and your videos are always entertaining.
I've got one of the early black and decker trigger drills and the switch mechanism is extremely cool. Basically a square block with a ratchet mechanism so it spins every time the trigger is pulled to make or break connection.
Greetings to all native speakers that have not turned on the subtitles! You’re missing something out
You could have upgraded all wire ends to eyelets and cleaned the shaft and contacts on the rotor.
I too was surprised that he didn't do that.
I actually did clean the commutator bars and the motor shaft, but I cut it for time. You can see that they are more shiny during reassembly.
@@HandToolRescue your videos could be twice as long and NOBODY would complain
Thanks for showing us a fine piece of equipment made 100 years before. Never seen one and never imagined one like this. Regards.
Wonderful great to see the old one come back to life
That switch is incredible!
Amazing work as always man! Looks like someone might have gotten to it before you and took a crack at fixing it, glad the tool gets another lease at life!
Excellent restoration 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe🇨🇦
Came back 6 times to finish watching this. Must have taken A lot of time to restore. Love the long vids.
Man that was one well used and loved tool.
I just wanted to know that I appreciate the effort you put into closed captioning your videos!
What a cool tool and cool project. Great job!!!
Hello I’m from Denmark and I have watch all you’re videos and I like all of them, the way you restore old machines is so perfect and the way you bring the crowd into the restoration I so amazing, thanks for many good years and I happily follow you on the journey to make old tools and machines great again Best regards Henrik :)
I just love these old tools. If only they could talk!! The stories they could tell of the projects they did a hundred years ago
And now, with its 60th consecutive week at #1 on the Top 40 charts (a record that is sure to never be beaten ladies and gents) here's HTR with "I'm Gon' Laser You".
That was just a beautiful and fun to watch video. Appreciated your bits of humor thrown in too, like grinding your shoe.
I could almost smell the metal and light machine oil scent! Thanks for sharing, you make KZhead better!
Badass and smart work as always!!! Great job and thank you!!!
Feels like it's been a while since I've seen one of these. Glad to have you back.
I find these old tools so fascinating. The show imagination and ingenuity.
Você faz um trabalho perfeito em todas as suas restaurações e os seus vídeos são muito criativos. Parabéns.