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I was drilling in steel this week building a new machine [watch this space] and this meant drilling pilot holes and going up in size to the final desired hole. This was a pain. So I finished off a project I had shelved some months ago and modified the drill press.

In the photo you see a collection of cordless drills in which the batteries die way before the drill. So took one of the drills apart and used its keyless chuck.

Back to front again???? never mind.

Hi Taff and all youse other persons...
I've used this one to, mostly to be able to use smaller drills 2mm down..
Another use for the old drills is the motor,you can use it on CNC machines...
Hope this helps someone down the line...Steve

Very, very clever Taffy , as usual.

Must be something about the colour of those drills (or the factory they are all generically produced in but branded differently) but I have one similar that died not so long ago. Thanks for posting Taff with this great idea & here's me thinking I was going to just toss the piece of sh*t.

Taff "Mcyver" Evans strikes again!!!

Hi SteveF,

That's very interesting that you say that about the old motors being useful for CNC; Have you any experience building a homebrew CNC and using such old motors? How would they rate on the quality scale for CNC usage (from what I gather, good stepper motors are often one of the biggest costs of DIY CNC).

I love this Wombles approach Being able to re-purpose things is always very satisfying.