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Quality not made here--how to fix it?

To: Spridgets@autox.team.net, midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com,
Subject: Quality not made here--how to fix it?
From: b-evans@earthlink.net
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 10:07:47 -0700
Back in 1946, my dad decided to build a third bedroom on our house, and 
set about doing it himself.  One of the tools he bought was a big, and I 
do mean big half-inch drill.  After the bedroom was completed, the drill 
was used off and on for different projects.  Now, 60 years later, it has 
given out, and and given up the ghost!  I have taken it to a couple of 
tool repair shops, but they just shake their heads and have no idea how 
to take it apart and repair it.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It is a half-inch drill made by the 
Thor Industrial Pneumatic Tool Co. of Aurora Ilinois, and was their  
Model 6579.  The company, it seems, must have passed into history as 
Americans wanted cheaper tools.

Buster Evans




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