Another one day and 3 hours and all shall be revealed - a pic of the 
instructions with the tool sitting right next to it. I promise.
In the meantime, yes drills back then were reversible. I had one of my 
grandfather's "handheld" drills from the fifties. (Apparently in the 
fifties people had really big hands. Must have been the radiation from 
all those nuke tests.) It was a thing of beauty, all metal, and had a 
metal switch above the trigger - push to one side and it was forward, 
push to the other and it was reverse.

Joe M.

On 7/12/2011 6:59 PM, James Thompson wrote:
> > It seems that this is a 1957 product, and I wasn't aware that drills were re
versible back then, but then there is a lot of stuff I don't remember anymore. I
 suppose they were reversible, but my memory is not.
>

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