vintage Goodell Pratt USA No. 5-1/2 B hand and breast drill - now w/both speeds

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Good morning all. With apologies to BB King, The Drill is Back.
Now most of you reading this will remember the saga from a couple of weeks ago when I had this drill listed, but could not get it to switch from high speed to low speed mode. After several applications of Penephite and much spinning, it will now change speeds, BUT NOTE THE FOLLOWING IN THAT REGARD: About once in every 20 times, the speed selector (a spring-loaded plunder) will cleanly turn the full 180 degrees to change the speed. The other 19 or so times, it will turn about 120 degrees, then you will need to GENTLY toggle the drill handle back and forth (sometimes once, sometimes 2 or 3 times), and then turn the selector the remaining radius and it will spring back into position to change the speeds. You will meet some resistance in the toggling, but just stop at that point and toggle the other direction .
DO NOT TRY AND POWER THE DRILL THROUGH THE RESISTANCE. S
omehow the toggling allows the interior sleeves in the mechanism to move and complete the speed change. If you are a user, this is not really a huge burden, given the number of times that you are likely to be changing speeds. If you are a purist collector, you have probably stopped reading by now anyway.
So, to recap, this is a vintage Goodell Pratt Company, Made in USA, No. 5-1/2 B hand and breast drill. This has the large mushroom head (solid - does not double as a bit holder), double pinion drive gears. 15" long. Ball bearing construction. Marked chuck.
This drill is in excellent condition for a tool this old that ordinarily takes alot of abuse simply through storage. There is virtually zero edge wear, and no chipping, on the wooden head (just a little paint - see 7th picture). The handle is still tightly attached to the body, with no play, which is almost unheard of in my experience.
Having said all of that, PLEASE NOTE the following:
1. There is maybe 1/16" of in and out movement on the main (large) gear. Nothing that prevents it from meshing cleanly with the pinion gears.
2. The chuck jaws are a little sticky, which is normal since they have probably been in the same position for decades. That should work itself out through use and, in any case, you just have to push the jaws down. If you are going to take the chuck apart (I would not), do it on a large clean surface, because if the little springs pop out, which they are prone to do, and get lost under the workbench, you will not be happy.
3. The line in the handle retaining ring (2nd picture to the left of the name stamp) is just the casting, it is not a crack.
4. There is old cloth electrical tape around the base of the little wooden handle on the drive arm. I don't know what is under it, and I am not going to take it off.
5. The side handle is the proper shape (the clunky Catalog picture notwithstanding), but it is from a later Millers Falls drill. Millers Falls bought Goodell Pratt, so it is all family.
6. As you can see in the pictures, there is wear on the red japanning, and some on the black japanning.
If anyone has questions, or wants more pictures, message.