SAG 180
Titanium
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2007
- Location
- Cairns, Qld, Australia
Was as the garbage dump recycling shop today and spotted this small Sher branded drill press with a rack and pinion drive cast iron table that moves up and down to drill the holes while the 10 000 RPM universal motor can slide up and down the post and be locked at a desirable height. It's a very heavy unit with solid steel post and cast iron base and fittings along with what looks to be an unpainted cast aluminium body that must have been polished rather than painted. After a bit of Googling I found a biography of William Peter Sher who was a Viennese electrical engineer who had worked in early European power tool manufacture before emigrating to Australia in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution: Biography - William Peter Sher - Australian Dictionary of Biography . Sher Power Tools Pty. Ltd. started making power tools in 1957 and in 1967 Skil Tool Company USA bought up all the shares, so this drill must have been made within that ten year interval.
The dump guy told me that it was out of a skip bin full of somebody’s basement instrument repair workshop and this was the only item out of all the small tools and hardware dumped in the landfill mud that was recovered.
The dump guy told me that it was out of a skip bin full of somebody’s basement instrument repair workshop and this was the only item out of all the small tools and hardware dumped in the landfill mud that was recovered.
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