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WelldrillingBit.jpg
WelldrillingSwivel.jpg

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Pictures of homemade well drilling tools. Posted by
Wayne Cook <waynec@pan-tex.net>.  Wayne provided the 
following description:

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  These are pictures of the swivel and drill bit I've
used to test drilling feasability. 
  As you can see the swivel is made from a steel pipe
dresser sleeve. I removed the rubber packing that came 
with it and replaced it with 3/16" rope packing. The
two large nuts are just set collars to hold the sleeve
in the proper place (actually the bottom one is just
a spacer and has no setscrew). 
  The drill bit is just a 3/4" masonary that I drilled out
for coolant (you can see one hole at least) and welded the
collar to so I could use 1/2" pipe (not heavy enough but 
it worked for my testing and I had it on hand) for the drill
stem. I brazed two large triangular inserts to each side of
it so that it would cut a large enough hole for the collars
to pass through.

Wayne Cook
waynec@pan-tex.net
shamrock, TX