Chris,
If you are indeed seeking a Millers Falls #2 or #2A eggbeater drill, I want to
suggest that they simply aren't all that rare, so don't overpay! Thousands were
made over the course of multiple decades.
You may find this type study useful:
https://www.georgesbasement.com/mfno2typestudy/mfno2types.html
Which is a sub-page of:
https://www.georgesbasement.com/
I see M-F #2's a few times per year when I'm keeping up with the Flea Marketing,
Yard Sale-ing, and Estate Sale-ing. As always, the more effort one puts into
looking, the luckier one gets!!!
My father had a #2 which had belonged to his father. Since it wasn't a power
tool, I was allowed to use it from a young age. One day my teen-aged self
somehow managed to break an internal part of the chuck. I repaired it by soft-
soldering, but it was never "right." That jaw wasn't gripping equally with the
other two. I felt really bad about this.
About 15 years later, now a young adult, I found just the identical M-F #2 chuck
at a Flea. Oh, how I enjoyed presenting that to my father! He expressed
amazement that I was able to find just the chuck on the loose in the wild.
With Pop's passing, this memory-laden drill is now mine. My daughters have used
it, and I expect to pass it to my grandson.
John Ruth
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