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Thursday, January 15, 2026

How to Use a Keyless Drill Chuck: Techniques and Troubleshooting

www.protoolreviews.com: The invention of keyless chucks was revolutionary in making cordless drills easier to use. While they’re now the dominant style, if you’re new to power tools, you might not know how to use a keyless drill chuck. If that sounds like you, we’ve got your back!

1 comment:

Violet K said...

The concept of a hand held drill with a keyed chuck is something that has never occurred to me before. As an incredibly lazy person, I cannot imagine having to keep track of and use a keyed chuck everytime I wanted to switch out a drill bit that would drive me insane. So luckily I don't live in the days of yesteryear when this was a thing. I also never really stopped to think what the clicking noise in the drill was, but it does make sense that it's a ratchet actually tightening the drill bit into place. Every time I’ve been taught how to use a drill, which based on my own poor choice of classes is quite numerous, someone always mentions not to put the drill bit in askew, which is a problem I don't think I have ever run into and really makes me wonder how other people are trying to put in drill bits for the first time.