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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Monday, August 29, 2005 9:44 AM
Thanks for that handy tip! Cordless tools are pretty handy to have.

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Posted by fiatfan on Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:10 PM
Great idea! That has annoyed me for years. Thank you.

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cool tool mod
Posted by jimrice4449 on Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:05 PM
I suppose most of us have discovered how handy cordless screwdrivers are for drilling the super tiny holes we need. High torque and low speed means we drill plastic w/o melting it. I found the tendency for the drill bit (and chuck) to stay in the work and pull out of the scredriver annoying and fixed the problem. I drilled a no 42 hole in the gizmo on the screwdriver that holds the bit and tapped it for an 8-32 thread (My local Ace hdwe store sells the tap and the appropriate drill bit as a set) I then got the shortest 8-32 thumb screw I could find and, Voila! the drill, chuck and scredriver remain attached unti I want to separate them. As a bonus it makes it much easier to change drill sizes if you have a project requiring different sizes, Just chuck the various bits in separate chucks. Half a turn on the thumb screw and swap.

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