Milwaukee Electric Tool 99th anniversary
For some reason I thought that the company was started in 1924 but I see in this 1965 catalog:
source: https://archive.org/details/milwaukee-electric-catalog-765-l-1/mode/2up
that 1925 was the year:
Looking through the catalog it is interesting to see generators (didn't know about those - they are 3600 RPM units though, noisier than 1800 RPM units from Kohler)
and even battery powered drills (although they were corded to a 12V car battery !).
My Dad's cousin Earl was a carpenter in the Milwaukee area. He (of course) used Milwaukee tools, a professional must have good tools. But my Dad used a succession of cheap drills - finally in the mid 1990s I bought him a Milwaukee drill - we were starting a project where a hammer drill was required and this drill even came with the carbide bits in the red metal case, nice !
I still have the drill but it is rarely used now, I use the Craftsman battery drill (bought during the pandemic - supposedly made in the USA) for drilling the maple trees each year for sap - that's most of the drilling that I do other than the hand drilling for electronic projects.
Sometimes it is nice to go with the high quality item rather than the bargain basement stuff :)
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
source: https://archive.org/details/milwaukee-electric-catalog-765-l-1/mode/2up
that 1925 was the year:
Looking through the catalog it is interesting to see generators (didn't know about those - they are 3600 RPM units though, noisier than 1800 RPM units from Kohler)
and even battery powered drills (although they were corded to a 12V car battery !).
My Dad's cousin Earl was a carpenter in the Milwaukee area. He (of course) used Milwaukee tools, a professional must have good tools. But my Dad used a succession of cheap drills - finally in the mid 1990s I bought him a Milwaukee drill - we were starting a project where a hammer drill was required and this drill even came with the carbide bits in the red metal case, nice !
I still have the drill but it is rarely used now, I use the Craftsman battery drill (bought during the pandemic - supposedly made in the USA) for drilling the maple trees each year for sap - that's most of the drilling that I do other than the hand drilling for electronic projects.
Sometimes it is nice to go with the high quality item rather than the bargain basement stuff :)
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| Brookfield ? |
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
