Bought a new cordless drill and impact. Actually traded an old (very low use and nice) Honda self propelled mower for a new in the box Milwaukee drill and impact set with 2 batteries. Good deal for both of us.
So my old cordless is still not the worst. Hitachi. Quite a few years old but have 2 batteries and they still hold a fair charge yet. The plastic on the key-less chuck had cracked. Put it on Craig's list for $20. No replies. So I went on eBay and for $9 (with shipping) got a nice new replacement Ryobi key-less drill chuck. What a deal. So time to take the old drill chuck off. Do you think I could get the screw inside loose. Nope. Determined to get it done no matter what I started hacking up the old chuck with my large die grinder and a thin cut off wheel. After a good length of time finally got to where the screw was total exposed. Grabbed it with a vice grips and started to turn it. ??? WTH? Left hand thread.
All that effort for nothing had I thought that it might have a left hand threaded screw. Lesson learned. I should have known better.
Back on aBay and ordered a new left hand drill chuck screw. Oh well. Screw only cost $3.50 with shipping. I'll either keep it or try to maybe get $50 for it on Craig's list.
Rodney
[This message has been edited by Rodney (edited 08-23-2014).]
