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Cordless drills

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Post: # 12610Unread post worth1
Mon Mar 02, 2020 8:45 am

Going to put this here because everyone needs one for the garden and around the house.
Indispensable in my opinion.
My Makita was dropped so many times off a ladder by some idiot I had to fix it.
Should have taken pictures but I didn't.
In short I did the impossible.
Took apart something that was never meant to be serviced.
The assembly that allows you to go from hammer drill to driving to drilling.
One of the ball detent springs was trashed and had to fix it.
The device was locked up.
The click thing for the clutch was broken.
No replacement for it and don't need it.
Three ball detention springs and ball bearings.
Wee screws other mystery parts.
All got to sandwich together.
Used magnet to keep track.
Put together wrong first time.
Took apart and got it right the second time.
Whole assembly costs about thirty dollars gears and all.
Couldn't get Chuck off had to squirt with kerosene and let time do the work.
Working fine now happy as a clam.
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Re: Cordless drills

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Post: # 12620Unread post Nan6b
Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:56 am

I love a cordless drill. Love cordless anything; cords seem to have a habit of getting severed when I use a tool.

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Post: # 12638Unread post Clkeiper
Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:01 pm

nothing is made to be serviced nowadays. I am glad you could figure it out and salvage it. well done.

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Re: Cordless drills

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Post: # 12674Unread post pepperhead212
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:39 pm

I have a couple of old DeWalt 12 v drills, a Makita 12 v hammer drill, and a slightly newer Milwaukee 12 v, which I use the most, because it is smaller and lighter than the DW. I never need those oversized 18 and 20 v models - those are for commercial purposes, and even in my workshop, when assempling an entire project, with dozens of screws and holes, I never run out of juice, with just one extra battery in the Milwaukee. When I need some thicker holes, or when I take it outside, I'll use the DW. I replaced the batteries in those just once, in over 30 years - the replacements lasted better than the originals, probably because they've improved batteries.

I just had my 3 hp Ryobi router, in my router table, bite the dust. It wasn't the motor, but the threads of the system that raised and lowered the router, stripped, and like the part you describe, @worth1, it is not something you can repair, and, being just under 30 years old (you know it was old, because it was made in Japan, before all the companies moved their factories to China!), the part can't be found any longer. So I had to get one to replace it - Triton TRA001 - plus I had to replace the acrylic base, that sets into the table - something I was working on for much of last week! All done now, so back to the seeds! lol
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b

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Post: # 12675Unread post worth1
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:54 pm

When it comes to parts with threads I can run just about anything you have with my lathe.
But sometimes it isn't worth it. :)
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Post: # 12680Unread post pepperhead212
Mon Mar 02, 2020 6:06 pm

The problem with the threads is that it runs inside a part, that is not something that could be really be replaced, unless you had the part. The male threads could be replaced, but but not that, and it seems the female part is what stripped. As old as it was, that router didn't owe me anything!

One good thing - this one has a rack and pinion system to lift it, so it should outlive me! At least that part...
Woodbury, NJ zone 7a/7b

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Post: # 21018Unread post worth1
Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 am

A friend of mine liked my Makita drill but couldn't afford one.
I told him he couldn't afford junk.
Well just the other day he bought a set like mine.
It was on sale 30% off and then he got a 25% off military discount on top of that.
It pays to wait.
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