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Yes, the cheaper version sounds like that. Mine has the plating peeling off, and I just got a cut on my knee, after a 10 mm long curved piece of plating had peeled off and dropped on the floor, didn’t notice it and kneeled straight on it. This deluxe version looked quite a bit better.
Would love to get a real vintage version of a brace, but I know so little of vintage brace bits, that I thought it’s better to stick on a 3-jaw brace that can use modern drill bits.
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Yes, even this cheaper brace holds bits just fine, as long as it’s tightened enough, but the problem is that then the socket tends to get stuck. Last time I had to use cold pack from freezer on the drill bit and hot pack on socket to get it open. I had no problems drilling with the brace (after it was tight enough), no wobbliness or other problems, except that I couldn’t get the socket to open anymore, which was kind a problem…