The Whole Garage Catalogue: A No-Name 1 1/16" Hole Saw

Sunday, January 8, 2012

A No-Name 1 1/16" Hole Saw

For a no-name hole saw, this thing looks pretty decent. I find it a bit odd, though, that the saw teeth are in much better condition than is the pilot drill. One would think that the saw portion leads a harder life than the pilot drill does.

The shank is roughly a 7/16"(11mm) A/F hex. I chucked it in my drill press and it appears to run true. A 5/16"-24 setscrew secures the pilot drill, so the pilot drill is replaceable. Here's a view of it taken apart. Note the flat on the pilot drill's shank. A regular drill assigned as a replacement will have to have a similar flat ground on it.

Something about this hole saw has got my 'restoration juices' flowing. I need to restore it to pristine condition right bleeping now. I'll start with stripping the paint off of it.

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Stripping off the paint revealed that that it was "MADE IN U.S.A.", but no maker's name. I don't know what they're ashamed of -- it's a perfectly good hole saw.

Here's a way to grind a flat on a drill's shank.

That's a 7/32" diameter chain saw sharpening stone in a Dremel hand grinder. The resulting flat is not precise or pretty, but it will serve.

And here it is all painted and back together with its new pilot drill.

Now I've gone and made it too nice to actually use -- I'll scuff the paint.

It can go in the cabinet with my other hole saws, in a protective wrapper.

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Introduction

This blog is in honour of my deceased father, Nick Gaspick.

It sprang from what had started out as merely a post on my workshop blog, Rouge River Workshop. Here's my introduction to that post:

"My son has been clearing out my deceased father's garage, so he'll have a place to restore an old car, and he's been finding all manner of stuff. I've begun one post about an old woodworking vise that I mean to restore. This weekend, my son brought me four toolboxes full of items. As a small honour to my father, I'll 'catalogue' them in this post, in no particular order, little-by-little as I go through the boxes."

The nature of the post was for it to grow ever longer, and that can be dangerous. Blogger has some quirks that I've experienced in the past, and I was getting tired of always backing up the entire post so I wouldn't lose it should Blogger vapourize an editing session. I finally decided to make a full-blown blog with an index out of the post. Here it is.

I'll leave the original post as it is, where it is, but I'll bring over all the items in it so far as individual, indexed posts here as well. Needless to say, new material will only appear here.

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A Little About My Father:

My father emigrated to Canada with his family from Croatia at about the age of seven. His family took on a homestead up Sudbury, Ontario way, and made a living there through the great depression.

My father loved school, and yearned to continue his schooling past grade eight, but that was not on. He had to leave school to make a living -- trapping, mining, whatever. Eventually, he and his made their way to Toronto -- the big smoke in Canada.

My father was built like a brick shit-house; he was a sturdy guy, unlike scrawny me. My father was a guy who could clear an acre of Canadian bush before breakfast, have it tilled and planted before lunchtime, with the plants sprouting before dinnertime.

Jesus H. Christ!-- a guy like my father ought to have lived forever!