My DeWalt drill
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Has 2 speeds. Slow speed works fine, but in the high speed position it just makes a screeeching sound (the chuck does turn, but only slowly).
It is fixable? I plan to take it apart tomorrow... :-)
De Walt Drill/driver makes screeching noise!
Jun 11, 2013
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Sounds like a stripped gear.
With quite a number of the dewalt drills they will flog you a new gearbox complete for £30 to £40 quid...
(having said that, you may be able to find the whole drill "body only" (i.e. no batts) for about that)
Yes, does sound that way. Some even use crappy plastic gears made of some kind of carbon fibre. I only know since someone I know took a dead one apart. The gearwheel in question had actually split from the centre out. I wondered after seeing that programme on composites and aircraft the other day whether any actual long term testing of these new materials stability was ever done at all! Brian
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