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I modified my shop drill press with an air drill that runs at 57,000 RPM so I can so drill holes at in printed circuit boards.

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Here's what we came up with:

Its time to hit the trails!

Now that we have 4 brass players in the house -- the dog is not pleased.

I got this a few years ago when Mary was out of town.  

The kids always have a blast in it.  

Kevin never rode a bike with training wheels, but instead made the jump to 2 two wheeling in under an hour.

1930 incidentally was the same year that my grandfather started working for New York Telephone where his first job was ripping out Western Electric Pay phones from establishments that hadn't paid their phone bills.

I didn't have a phone line in my home office where I wanted to use this antique, but many years ago I had pulled 6 sets of CAT 5E network wiring from my office to my media closet (through a crawl space with little more than 16" clearance in one spot), but I hand't run additional wires to the telco lines on the far end of the house.

It was back into the crawl space to pull new twisted pair copper wires -- this time all the way outside to the telco box.  Getting the "Telco Only" side of the phone box open was a snap and the wires were connected in short order.

The phone now had dial tone, but I was shocked when I tried dialing with the rotary dial and discovered that FiOS still supports the rotary (pulse) dialing.

This phone is working great after 82 years -- they really don't make them like they used to!