David wrote:
I really thought the Wera one was going to be what I wanted but it's
just very awkward to get the bit out. It's much more natural and
*easier* to pull the sleeve back towards the drill when removing a bit.
It's also quite expensive, over £10, which seems quite a lot for a
simple device like this. At least the Siegen one was much cheaper, just
£2.xx for two of them, the short one in the pictures and a longer one.

Just to note that my Makita impact driver has the same arrangement - push
the sleeve forwards to release the bit.

Yes, I've got one of those and it annoys me on that too! :-)

Possibly designed that way so that if you drive in a counter sunk screw to
the depth of the driver bit you don't lose the bit by having the collar
pushed back.

It would have to be a very deeply countersunk screw to do that surely.
I use 50mm bits for preference anyway.

Using 25mm bits in the Makita makes it very clumsy IMHO, you can't see
what's happening because the driver body masks the screw head and bit.
It's one of the reasons that I use a bit holder and want a slim one,
it makes the whole thing much more like an 'ordinary' screwdriver
where you can actually see what's going on at the important place
where the screwdriver engages with the screw.

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Chris Green
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