Shop Talk 25 Vintage Drill Indexes

well guys a couple episodes back I mentioned that I wanted to talk about my drill indexes and I just recently got a few new ones so that's what I'm going to do here is share a few things with you and talk to you about mine now growing collection of these classic drill indexes that you just don't you don't see anymore new this is all old stuff and definitely something that I enjoy to collect whenever I see one but I had recently bought a few of these from Barry Robbins he's on instagram under old tape 61 I mentioned him before I got a couple decimal charts from him and he has a lot of these these these old drill indexes right there so I picked out a few and I've got a few here to show you and we got some other new tools to go with these that are that I'll tell you about so this is how it all started with this guy right here this is a very very beautiful drill index made by Cleveland twist drill and I found this guy right here up at the Moultrie Georgia swap meet several years ago this has probably been five years if I had to say four or five years it was my first time out there and I found this and looking back the guy had two of them and I was being so cheap that I didn't buy two of them I just bought one but now look back on hindsight I should have got both of them but I do recall the other one being a little bit messed up somewhere on there so I got the Primo one and I think I only paid like 20 bucks for this thing very elegantly crafted the way that they cast this thing this is for fractional drills and it's got a hole for all the drills there now these are mine just I believe these are screw screw machine link drill bits split point drills these are some good ones that I had bought from KBC tools they were on sale so I just grabbed a few of them I like I like these little stubby drills every now and then so that's what this index is for and I need to go ahead and complete the set so I'll do that again one of these days when they have these drills back home sale again I'll pick up some more so that's how it started right there and as I said I went ahead and bought a few more so these guys right here we've got this we got the standard standard Tool Company index this is another nice Cleveland this is for number drills and this is made out of wood very nice old classic drill index right there and in this Cleveland drill index right there I love the old diamond logo that they used okay so these are the ones that I got that I got from Barry alright I want to show you this so this is the same index is this guy right here only it's four numbered drills and he had this and they come in the original metal case they've got the original logo on there a little push button top and look at that isn't that awesome it's got all of your drill point data information up here still in good shape and then the index is also in very good shape there's only a few drills that's missing out of it right there other than that it's a complete set you got two missing down there and five drills missing right there but other than that is a is a complete set right there same same condition as this guy right there so I thought that was just totally cool because I didn't even realize that these had come in these metal cases like that so once I once I spotted that on Barry's Instagram I I messaged him about it and I had to have it so we worked out a little deal for it so that's that that's gonna be this one right there you gotta push the button okay so there's that guy and I've already shown you these these guys are up there ask the new ones and let me show you this one right here so this one is from Greenville tap and die and it's the shape of their logo this is actually a shape of a thread the thread pitch and my my local friend TJ that I always see at the flea market he had found this and I heat this is just something that he dropped off at my house when he when he was driving by this and one of the decimal charts but he found this I don't know where he found it never did ask him but I cleaned it up I've had this for a while I finally cleaned it up and I sacrifice one of my other numbered drill indexes that I had bought from a yard sale years ago when I was a teenager and it still had all the drills in it so I sacrificed that index and put them all in this guy right here and I absolutely loved it so it's just a nice classic elegant way to display all of your drills and look cool doing it so the only one that's messed up here is the number 60 somebody's broke off a drill in there and I have not bothered trying to get that out it would be a bit of a challenge to get that drill out of there so I just decided to leave it alone and I pretty rarely do I ever use a number 60 drill but still looks good right so there's this guy right there I'll move that over now let me show you my newest one this is this drill index right here was made by the Morse twist drill company and I found this up in Missouri when we were on our road trip we stopped at an antique store just outside of Independence it was called the brass armadillo I believe is what it was called and they have a bunch of like display cases they're just walls of them and Abby spotted this right here and I thought it was just really cool because I I walked by and I missed it and I didn't see it and she she we came I said hey I seen one of those drew holder's in that case and I was like alright show it to me went down there and lo and behold it's this guy right here more's twist drill now this is collapsible you can pull this pin and you can actually collapse this you can fold it up on itself just like that and stick the pin back in there so you can collapse it if you want to I'm not really concerned about the drills in this thing you know the guys that uh that were ringing me up was like oh menos some cool looking drills I'm like I don't even care about these drills these things are cheap and I'm not buying it for the drills I bought it for the drill index right there so then that's what I did I bought it for that so these are these drill bits that are in here are just inexpensive drills and I plan on removing them and putting brand new drills in this index right here this was a great find they had it the exact price I can't recall but I want to say it was twenty eight dollars for this right here and I got 10% off of that so that was really cool so there you have it my growing collection of classic vintage drill indexes that are going on in the shop and to add to this what I wanted to do was start filling these indexes up with new drill bits and actually use them in the shop right here instead of the the more well-known Hewitt style drill index that you open up so I took advantage of the KBC tools sale flyer right here Cleveland or the CLE line Jabra drills were on sale 20% off so I got a few of those ordered a few sets we got I bought two of the fractional sets we've got one of the letter set so I don't have an actual index for the letter set but I wanted to a new set of letter drills anyway and then I got three sets of the number sets okay let's go ahead and we'll open these up so you can see what they look like whenever you buy new you get a cool little Cleveland sticker to go on your tool box and the the number drills I don't want to flip out the number drilled or the are the bright the polished drills and they all say high-speed USA that's a sign of a good quality drill bit I've always had really good luck with any drill bit that says USA on it so I don't know the origins of the you know the plant that actually makes a lot of the Maine USA drills but always had good luck with them so I'd like to say that this is a Cleveland a genuine Cleveland drill but you just don't know with how how things work in the manufacturing world today here's one of the new fractional sets no the Cleveland sticker and these are the polished drills also I thought that they were the black oxide but I guess I was mistaken so go ahead and what this thing open so you can see [Music] high-speed USA so these are going to go director I'm gonna start filling filling these indexes up with these drill bits alright so I went ahead and got the drills put in the indexes and want to just share what they look like on camera real quick so this is the standard tool company index with all the number drills in there this one I had I did start polishing on it but as soon as I started polishing I started having some regrets on removing that original finish so I just I stopped there and just figured out leave it just leave the original look that's on there I believe it's like nickel-plated so I'm not gonna worry about that just gonna leave it like it is alright so there's the standard here's the Morse twist drill and all I did with it too is just clean it up appears to be the same nickel coating that one's got a little bit of pink paint looks like that drift on it but I ain't worried about it it looks good just like it is there alright and then our last one is the cleveland twist drill index now this one was interesting as I started putting it in there I didn't I didn't realize how they had staggered them the sizes but you know half his back he rolled in this corner and then 64 thirty second sixty four thirty second you know it just went it went like that so as I was pulling them out of the set I had to go to this side this side and back and forth just like so so that was pretty cool but I'm loving the look of these things and then the last one this wooden one here apparently what is going on with it the drills are very tight going in the holes you can you can start to drill in there but they get real tight and I don't want to I don't want to force them in there and then have I can't pull them back out easy so maybe the wood has swollen a little bit over the years and that's what's making it tight because it was a precision drill hole in there so I think what I'll do is just redraw these I'll take my time it's be very time consuming having to take sixty different drills and put it in the drill chuck and then go in there and drill those holes but I'll probably go over to the mill take my time one day put on some tunes and then try to just really just ream those holes out is what you're doing so we'll get to that one another time but I'm just loving the look of these classic vintage drill indexes absolutely love [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: abom79, drill index, vintage drill index, greenfield tap and die, morse twist drill, cleveland twist drill, the standard tool company, twist drills, collectible drill index, union twist drill

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Length: 13min 52sec (832 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 12 2018