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The drill that built the crib

An older Makita corded drill, on display at Makita's UK headquarters. Not the one in the story.
An older Makita corded drill, on display at Makita's UK headquarters. Not the one in the story. Photo: Mark Hunter, CC BY 2.0. The real one is in the original post.

About 33 years ago a new dad built a crib with this Makita drill and an orbital finishing sander. The baby grew up and had a son, who sleeps in that crib, and the tools came along with it. The drill has a keyed chuck, the kind you tighten with a little geared key, and on most drills that key is the first thing to go missing. Replacements are harder to match than you'd think. A cordless drill does most of the work these days. The Makita comes out when a job needs two drills, so nobody has to keep swapping bits.

The drill has its original chuck key.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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