De-Havilland aircraft works historic images

These are pages from an unknown magazine, date also unknown, but they show a nice insight into aircraft production in the De-Havilland factory.

We found these images when going through my grandfathers things, after we sadly lost him recently.

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Axminster WD16B2 pillar drill assembly

I finally got to assemble my pillar drill last night. It's been in bits under the bench for ages, glad to get it done at last.

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Because it's such a heavy bugger, especially the drill head, and I was on my own, I had to be a bit inventive trying to get the drill head on.

I first of all tried just straight lifting it ontop of the column, but I'm no muscle man, so no chance.

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I then thought about assembling it on it's side and then standing it up, I had to use my hydraulic car jack, but this only got so far and I had to give up again.

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The method that did work was to lay it on it's back, then I climbed onto the bench and lifted it up.

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My advice is to get someone to help, these drills are really heavy!

It's turned out to be quite big on my workbench, and kind of dominates the shed, so I think I'll make a lower wooden stand to the side of the bench. Which of course means moving it again....

http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-axminster-wd16b-pillar-drill-prod725428/

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