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Thanks for bringing back the memories:

My Grand Dad was a master carpenter and he He owned several of these drills and several carpenter's hammers. He had cut/lathed and install hickory wood handles for the hammers

He died my soph. year in college, and I got one of these drills with a set of drill bits and a hammer. I kept them at my parents so they didn't disappear in college.

5+ years later, I got married and my parents got these tools to our new apartment. My wife loves pictures/paintings and new drapes/curtains. That drill all most become an extension to my left arm and hand from holding the drill. I bought a stud finder that lasted until last year.

A few years later and several apartments later, we bought our first home, a 3 story townhouse with a zillion windows.

A first cousin and a good friend was in the same area and was going through a divorce. He was an engineer/architect and he had inherited our granddad's skills.

So he would spend a weekend with us, get fed and worked hard getting new curtains, pictures up and etc.. He loved our grand dad's drill and didn't want to ruin it in our new home.

So he bought a new B&D electric drill kit and a set of drill bits and gave it to me/us. My wife suggested that we give him our grand dad's drill set for helping us. We did and he cried and thanked us.

3 moves later the B&D drill kit was still working but slowing down. About 1+ decades ago, my wife bought me a new DeWalt portable electric drill, the one in the yellow black case that never wears out.

My granddad's hammer disappeared on that move.

One of our sons still has the old B&D drill kit. He wanted it. He has dibs on the DeWalts mentioned above below.

A couple of years ago I bought an DeWalt Portable Electric stud/screw driver with two batteries for both outside and inside work. It is an incredible tool inside and outside. I basically own every drill bit and stud driver made by DeWalt.