bloody Russian/Chinese Gangsters

Remember that the locking/fixing screw behind the jaws of a conventional chuck is almost certainly a left hand thread...

Because the drill reverses, there will be some form of locking screw. You open the chuck fully and look down inside. Could be anything - slot cross head or allen etc. And probably a left hand thread. Remove this and the chuck should unscrew. But it's possible those threads are reversed, ie the chuck itself has a left hand thread and the screw normal.

HTH - if I'm teaching my grandma to suck eggs, sorry Gran.

On Mon, 17 May 2004 05:56:00 +0000 (UTC), in uk.d-i-y "Michael Mcneil" strung together this:

Don't worry, I wouldn't have listened anyway. They're crap imitations that are\were illegal\counterfeit. Glad it's fallen to pieces, you could possibly buy a proper drill now.

Idiot. These things are repairable, it's just that I was singing its praise every opera tune you nit (ee bah gum some people.)

For the rest of us: I need to get the chuck off but it just won't go. The plastic chucks they have these days with a quick release, don't take the hammer that you can give the old fashioned steel ones.

What you did was open it and hold the chuck key in and give it a smack with an hammer and bang your thumb a few times, then drop the key or make it fly across the room, then try it the other way and eventually find out which way it works. (The bolt in the centre btw is a left hand thread.)

I suppose I had best take it in -or maybe check out a replacement chuck.

On Mon, 17 May 2004 23:10:14 +0000 (UTC), in uk.d-i-y "Michael Mcneil" strung together this:

Obviously you don't get it then.

Some of the cheaper drills require you to take half the gearbox to pieces before you can disassemble the chuck.