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Smile Re: Safety concern: beware of cordless drills with brakes

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley View Post
If you do use a cordless drill, putting the chuck setting on one of the slip settings will probably avoid this issue. The clutch would slip instead of trying to exert the intertia of the spinning wheel into the drill and therefore the drill handle.

Just take your time getting it up to speed and it shouldnt slip on the way up.

-Brando
If you use a drill with a chuck that requires two hands to tighten or loosen, that won't happen. Drills with a one hand chuck employ this type of mechanism to lock the arbor when tightening/loosening the chuck, elimination of the need for the 2nd hand. You can also take the drill apart if this route is not available and remove the locking pins/springs and rods of the locking mechanism. However, a previous post to reduce the clutch mechanism setting might work, but might release before the wheel spins up to speed. .
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