Vintage head smasher

[sardine]

Vintage Centrifugal Hand Crank Drill Press Governor Cast Iron

Very large hand-driven bench drill - drill press - probably Regulateur / Governor’s. Designed 1899 a patent for the automatic advance of the drill chuck through a governor of the Imperial Patent...

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[sardine]

 

[dan treg]

interesting what's the purpose of the balls for

 

[cheb]

As the title says, head smashing.

 

[Keith 66]

Notice no arc of shame on the base, I expect it made people very careful when using it as the balls whizzed past their nose.

 

[sg66]

interesting what's the purpose of the balls for

It's stored energy which goes into the drill bit, bit like spinning up a big flywheel

 

[sardine]

No one was conscious long enough to drill through the base.

 

[Barking Mat]

Just looks extremely dangerous.