BangShift.com Restoration of This 1930s Thor Pneumatic Gun Drill [Video]

I have long loved all the tool restoration videos on YouTube and it seems many of you dig them as well. It is fun seeing something kind of beat up and forlorn get brought back to life, cleaned up, and made to work as designed originally. The more interesting and unique the tools the better, at least for my taste. From old chainsaws to equipment designed to care for a home owner’s property, there’s no end to the stuff people have saved from extinction and then saved from the ravages of time.

In this case we are talking about an awesome pneumatic drill made by the Thor company sometime in the 1930s. When you see the thing you’ll know exactly why it was called a “gun drill” and when you see it come apart and go back together you’ll appreciate how robustly things were made over 80 years ago.

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