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Brian S(NY) 
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Posted: 16 Jul 2019 at 8:54pm |
my makita drill with manual chuck crapped out during a project and I have been trying to drill steel with my portable drill with the automatic chuck on it. The chuck keeps loosening up and spining on the bit.. :( and when you get almost through the darn drill doesnt want to finish the hole. Do they still make heavy duty variable speed electric drills with a manual chuck?
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 16 Jul 2019 at 9:20pm |
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As bad as it hurts me to say this I bought a 1/2” drill at harbor fright. It has lasted since 2011. I GM have drilled lots of holes (25000) in 3/16” purlins on one job. It has mixed a lot of tile grout and a lot of drywall mud. It has served as an electric starter on 2 different welder motors. And it’s drove a whole lot of timber locks and lag bolts.
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Brian S(NY)
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Posted: 16 Jul 2019 at 9:43pm |
and it has a manual chuck? I'll head there tomorrow
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Posted: 16 Jul 2019 at 10:31pm |
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THe Dewalt titanium bits I bought have three flats and can't turn in the chuck there also sharp enough I can drill almost anything with an old B&D cordless drill.
Edited by Dakota Dave - 16 Jul 2019 at 10:32pm
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 4:46am |
My favorite, right now is a ryobi cordless impact driver, with cheap HF unibit set. The unibit drills have a hex shank, that snaps into the QD of the driver. Still have an old B&D 1/2" manual chuck, for larger drilling, + a drill press, for the big stuff... 
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 5:04am |
 Brian S(NY) wrote:
and it has a manual chuck? I'll head there tomorrow
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 6:20am |
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yep my HF drills and favorite black and decker 1/2" that I cannot beat down all have manual chucks.
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 6:50am |
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I will have to look in the storage unit. I have a Milwaukee, corded , electric drill with a manual chuck that I haven't used in over 10 years . Battery drills just perform too good . I have a corded electric sawzall that hasn't been hardly used in just as long .
The bits that have 3 sides and won't slip are the only ones to use on a speed chuck.
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 8:27am |
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We use 1/2" Makita drills in the chicken house to turn winches and have had to rebuild them a couple of times. You can get new brushes for them and probably other parts I'm sure. If it were me I'd look real deep into rebuilding rather than buying new
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 8:49am |
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I HATE keyless chucks! They are handy but they suck all the same!
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 8:57am |
Dakota Dave wrote:
THe Dewalt titanium bits I bought have three flats and can't turn in the chuck there also sharp enough I can drill almost anything with an old B&D cordless drill. |
But the keyless chucks are round, no jaw to grip the flat. The keyless chuck was supposed to be a safety inventions, so you didn't leave a key in a spinning drill. We're so safe we can't do anything now! 
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 9:47am |
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See if you can get just a regular chuck. ---That's what I did to 3 of the old drills I was given because the keyless chucks were junk. I tossed the chucks in the junk and found good ones to put on them. All you need is to match up the the thread size and it will work.
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Posted: 17 Jul 2019 at 10:08pm |
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i have a makita 1/2 18 volt drill , great drill use it very hard and almost daily i whent in to the makita dealer and we put a manual chuck with key , best thing i did, we replaced to many of the keyless chucks , if you spin one bit in a keyless chuck they are never very good from there on out
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Posted: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:38pm |
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I realize they can slip but it sure nice to use the keyless chuck when you have to change bits a lot. For instance when drilling a hole in sheet metal then putting in a screw bit.
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Posted: 19 Jul 2019 at 7:03am |
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I get where you're coming from, my biggest complaint with cordless drills is the chucks. ButKeyless chucks aren't the problem, cheap keyless chucks are. I have a Milwaukee 1/2" corded drill we use to hone holes with (up to 18" diameter) fitted with a good keyless chuck (probably about $200.00 plus) and it works great. You get what you pay for. For that matter, cheap keyed chucks are no joy either.
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