Driving Screws The real sophistication in power drills is their ability to drive screws. That’s the setting for drilling holes…not screws…and without getting clacking sounds from the motor. If you keep turning towards the larger numbers, eventually you’ll run out of numbers and finally reach a mark that sort of looks like the end of a drill bit. More about that problem later.įor now, look for a set of numbers along a twistable ring at the back of the chuck. That meant that I had the drill set up for driving screws, not drilling holes. Remember the clacking sound I talked about? That was the drill clutch in action. So the higher speed for drilling holes just makes sense. If you drill holes at low-speed, the bit will fill up with wood and just not work that great. Sure, the drill will sort of work okay at either setting, but keep in mind that drill bits can clog up fast with wood. Why? If I’m drilling holes I want my drill bit to turn a whole lot faster than it would simply driving screws. We’re talking about drilling holes right now, so I need to set this to hi-speed. You only have two choices here…low-speed or hi-speed. Somewhere on the top of the drill should be a switch for setting the drill speed. Let’s start with the more simple task, drilling. This is where I finally learned the difference between drilling holes and driving screws, and which settings on the drill go with which. Everything became a little more clear after I skimmed through the instruction manual.
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I was able to drill the hole I needed, but I could pretty much figure that I wasn’t getting the full potential of what this tool could do. But it didn’t really help me understand what the settings were for. There are numbers listed around the chuck, and the bigger number I turned to, the less clacking I heard from the motor. Sure enough, I stopped the clacking sound by twisting something behind the chuck a few turns clockwise. So like I usually do when things go wrong, I started fiddling with whatever looked like an adjustment.
The motor was still going, but it was making a weird clacking sound. But halfway into my first drill hole I knew something wasn’t quite right. Never mind about all the numbers, knobs, and switches spread out all around drill. When I bought my new Ryobi cordless drill a couple weeks ago, I didn't’ think I’d need instructions to figure it out…just twist the drill chuck open, slip in a drill bit, twist the drill chuck closed, and I’d be ready to go. Hopefully they will make a little more sense after a closer look at what you can and can’t do with a power drill. Of course, this is where the confusion starts…trying to figure out the difference between drilling and driving.īoth are very different kinds of tasks for a tool, and that’s why drills today have all those knobs and adjustments that I never seem to figure out. More often I’m driving screws, not drilling holes.
It’s funny though, that most of what I do with a drill has nothing to do with drilling. Coming in a close second to the Ryobi circular saw, a power drill is my next must-have tool for building anything from wood.
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