--- Peter Williams 
wrote:

> That drill is labelled as a "bench drill" and is
> purchased
> as such. It certainly does appear to share many
> components
> with a typical breast drill, but there is no article
> about
> making one for yourself. 

Both Millers Falls and Goodell Pratt made drills of
this general type, or made stands that held a breast
drill to allow use as a bench drill.  One of the
companies (don't have catalogs handy, so not sure if
it was M-F or G-P) made different sizes, the smaller
using a hand drill, the larger a breast drill, and
also made versions with the drill as a permanent part
of the drill, in addition to the actual bench drills
with slightly different mechanisms.  I think the
available reprints of these companies catalogs show
quite a variety of these drills.

=====
Jim Erdman  (in Menomonie, WI)

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