I remember an all aluminum 1/4" Black & Decker drill that I inherited from my fa
ther. That thing was a drop dead torquey tool that lasted forever. Right up to t
he time somebody borrowed it, and it never found its way home. Then B&D became a
 second line, and DeWalt became the first line. Before that B&D was a killer too
l. I still look for old all aluminum frame tools when I am out searching in the 
wild.

On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:05 PM, Joe wrote:

> > Another one day and 3 hours and all shall be revealed - a pic of the instruc
tions with the tool sitting right next to it. I promise.
> > In the meantime, yes drills back then were reversible. I had one of my grand
father's "handheld" drills from the fifties. (Apparently in the fifties people h
ad 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 - pu
sh 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 
reversible 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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