brilliant response group - thank you all.
It appears my drill is in reverse!
I cannot believe I was so stupid, but pleased to know so many of you have been there yourselves! I feel like a new member of a privelaged few!
Meantime have also replaced the old 'self reversing!!' drill with an SDS that so many of you raved about!
Ian
hehe. Reckon thats one we've all done some time.
NT
Luckily, the only reversing mains hammer drill I have is an old B&D Tradesman which only uses the minimum speed in reverse as it's for removing screws.
Good to hear it, but..... self reversing?
Have you perhaps swapped the pos & neg in the plug, or in a mains wiring circuit?
AC doesn't have pos and neg. On some drills it's easy to knock the direction selector over to the other side when handling them.
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