A tip for the youngsters amongst us

[Ed Harrow]

In a few years you'll be able to pick up, cheap, some really nice keyless chuck drills that us old farts can't tighten anymore.

[gibetheridge]

By then they'll be drilling holes with lasers. No more broken or dull bits that try to follow the grain. They'll be carried in a holster and double as handguns.

[RichKrough]

In a few years you'll be able to pick up, cheap, some really nice keyless chuck drills that us old farts can't tighten anymore.

Channel lock pliers is your friend

http://getmetools.com/pics/cl420.jpg

[Hwyl]

Ah to not have experienced the titillating thrill as a chuck key flies across the room,character building I tell you.

[Canoeyawl]

Ah to not have experienced the titillating thrill as a chuck key flies across the room,character building I tell you.
Or catching the cord and winding itself all up into a ball until it pulls itself free from the wall socket.

[Ed Harrow]

Oh, no, there's even worse things than that...

[Canoeyawl]

Yup - when your arm gets caught in that cord and it's a half inch Milwaukee hole hawg with a 3 inch hole saw mounted in the chuck...
It's kind of like applying a tourniquet with a serrated knife really fast. And then the cord comes free from the wall right? I knew it.

[mommicked]

Try catching a big 2-3' long auger bit attached to a 1/2 hp drill up in a nail you didn't see. That real fun with a drill!

[Canoeyawl]

Try catching a big 2-3' long auger bit attached to a 1/2 hp drill up in a nail you didn't see. That real fun with a drill!
This only works well if your way up on a ladder...

[mommicked]

Or jammed between two studs! Ouch.

[Old Dryfoot]

I was coring a hole in a concrete slab in preparation for installing a bi level drain when the anchor holding the coring drill (4hp electric) let go, punky concrete plus some rebar that the xray guy missed. I was standing just far enough back from the machine to get a glancing blow but the bruise went from knee to hip, and it was around three weeks before I could walk with out a limp, any closer and I would have had a broken leg.

[Milo Christensen]

Ed, Ed, don't you know that it's a conspiracy to make you buy all those easy change bits? All you have to do is chuck the bit holder just tight enough so that it and the bit fall out, into the slot next to which you're drilling and into which your magnetic pickup doesn't quite reach and upside down you can't turn the project?

[Joe Dupere]

Or catching the cord and winding itself all up into a ball until it pulls itself free from the wall socket.

I still don't know the mechanics of how it happened, but one time I had the drill pull the cord right out of the handle!!
:D

Joe FFPoP

[Shang]

Support the workpiece against your leg, only to find out that the the bit is faster and more aggressive than you thought,
so you drill about half inch into the meat...?

[Bruce Taylor]

http://im4.ebidst.com/upload_big/7/3/9/1279224394-15328-0.jpg

[oznabrag]

In a few years you'll be able to pick up, cheap, some really nice keyless chuck drills that us old farts can't tighten anymore.

True enough, but then they oughtta replace the warped, abused, untightenable chucks.

The keyless chucks on practically all of the earlier cordless drills, can be destroyed by overtightening. Once the innards have been deformed, they're ruined, and can't be tightened.

Spinning the chuck down tight on a bit while you hold the collar may be an emotionally satisfying display, but it will ruin the earlier chucks, toot sweet.

[Figment]

So if all of the above have happened to me, I'm old?

Or do I not cross that threshold until I have trouble tightening the keyless chuck?

(just trying to find my place in the continuum)

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00122ZJ9C/ref=asc_df_B00122ZJ9C1325609?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B00122ZJ9C
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XOgZkhO9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[John Meachen]

It wasn't the chuck,my grip is OK,but since the drill snagged while turning a 4 1/2 inch holesaw,the tendons on the back of my hand haven't been quite what they used to be.

[Ed Harrow]

I still don't know the mechanics of how it happened, but one time I had the drill pull the cord right out of the handle!!
:D

Joe FFPoP

That's the way Big Bad Bertha (3/4" B&D) was found, cordless.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g65/wlgtoo/Spring%20Lane/shop%20and%20tools/DSC_0060.jpg

You can't imagine the consequence of squatting down by this baby and pulling the switch while the key remained in the chuck. (I'm just sayin')

On the topic at hand, I was thinking it might be a good application for a strap wrench, but I've got to go to all that hassle I'd rather put up with a key. Mr Taylor's gizmo looks interesting, too, but I'd rather have a keyed chuck.

[mommicked]

Ed,
I've been a residential electrician since high school, working part time after school, finding dad with a CB (no cell phones back then). We wire wooden framed houses, and use an auger drill more days than not it seems. While the rest of me is not much to look at, I've got fore arms that don't quit from all the drilling.

But the idea of taking that 'thing' in the picture above to work to drill all day just plain dang scares me! That is a BEAST! You hit a nail you don't see with that thing, something (or somebody) is gonna break!