Una wrote:

For Christmas DH wants a good manual hand drill. Eggbeater
style, with a side handle to hold if you want to lean on the
butt handle. He has one now that is junk: the gears don't
mesh smoothly and the chuck is skewed.


As with a lot of hand tools, the older the better. Look for a Goodell-Pratt
first, then a Miller Falls (they bought G-P). Here's an example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Vintage-Good...QQcmdZViewItem

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