Tool Identification.

Old Roy · Apr 4, 2009

My neighbor collects different kinds of ratchets,
this one stumps all of us. Any ideas as to what it was used for ? Thanks.

bob15 · Apr 4, 2009

Not really sure what its for, but the manufacturer is the Billings and Spencer Company.

bob

Old Roy · Apr 4, 2009

That marking I found was,
Theb& S, {Possibly Son} has a triangle looking area with a "B" inside.

Are you saying it was made for them by another Co.?

All Info is appreciated.

bob15 · Apr 4, 2009

Billings and Spencer was a drop forge company. Try this website for some on their history:

http://www.alloy-artifacts.com/billings-spencer-company.html

bob

Fawteen · Apr 5, 2009

Possibly for removing the recessed square drive plugs often used for drains in transmissions and such?

John Garner · Dec 23, 2012

This tool looks to me to be a "ratchet drill", which was usually used in conjunction with a "old man" (aka "ratchet crow" or "drill crow") to drill large holes in heavy metal, by hand. The drills use with a ratchet drill were most often twist drills if purchased, flat (aka "spade" or "farmer") drills if homemade, and had a tapered-square shank similar to, but almost always larger than, the tapered-square shank on a carpenter's auger bit.

The drill crow is built of three pieces, a base that can be bolted or clamped to the workpiece, a round column fixed to the base, and an arm that could be slid up and down the column and rotated around the column. In use, the arm would be set so that the screw jack protruding from the ratchet drill head could force the drill into the work as the drill was rotated.

John

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