I've just bought a Makita drill:
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The annoying thing is the little white LED that illuminates the area in fro nt of the drill - because of where it's positioned the bright field of ligh t doesn't quite get to the actual point where the bit is going into the wor kpiece. The chuck casts a shadow:
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I don't want to dismantle the drill and invalidate the warranty, but I'd li ke to modify it in some way to address this problem. I'm thinking of prisms or fibre optics!
Any ideas?