Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.
Brian

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Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.
Brian

Piece of old, thick, truck inner tube - cut stip off and make two holes
in it, one for the cable to go through one for the chuck key. Never
loose a key again.

Chuck keys are so old fashioned.


Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.



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On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

(or put on a keyless chuck)


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Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm
so careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in
the universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Swap to a keyless chuck? Certainly for a hand drill. For a pillar drill, a
bit of decent string round it?

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On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.
Brian

They just fall in love and elope...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLu387iIBmM


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I have an old fashioned drill, it still works and its fine for me, I'm not
doing anything too massive I am not going to have a drill I might be able
to do damage with I am a sensible blind person.
Brian

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Chuck keys are so old fashioned.


Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
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On Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:15:13 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

Yep I think we call it a bit of string :-)

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whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:15:13 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

Yep I think we call it a bit of string :-)

Just stick a nice bright colour long cable tie on it. Making it more
visible.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:15:13 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

Yep I think we call it a bit of string :-)

Just stick a nice bright colour long cable tie on it. Making it more
visible.


A bit of string around the flex can bring problems of its own if it is long
enough to allow the key to be used while still attached and the user leaves
it in the chuck.
A mate of mine who could rival Frank Spencer for his accident proneness or
clumsiness did that on top of an aluminium ladder while repairing some
guttering, the sparks from the severed flex as hit each rung in turn as it
fell were quite interesting to watch according to his wheel chair bound
neighbour watching from the adjoining garden,this chap had already asked
his wife to bring out his old crash helmet as previously my mate had
showered him with dislodged and broken tiles.

GH

On 30/05/2019 17:59, ARW wrote:
Chuck keys are so old fashioned.

Correctly-sized spanners went out of fashion on the
Tyneside shipbuilders decades ago.

Geordie spanner = club hammer and cold chisel.


Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

On 31/05/2019 12:52, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:15:13 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

Yep I think we call it a bit of string :-)


I call it a collection of v powerful magnets from old
microwave ovens. All the important 'keys', adaptors and
widgets are stuck on those.

On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.
Brian

For my pillar drill, the key is attached to a good solid cord suspended
from the roof above it. With enough slack so that it can't get
entangled, obviously.

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On 31/05/2019 21:25, Marland wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:15:13 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/05/2019 17:11, Brian Gaff wrote:
Over the years I've lost about 10 chuck keys for my drill, and yet I'm so
careful to keep them with the drill. I swear there is some force in the
universe that makes them vanish when you really want one.

Get one of those things that ties the key to the flex - then you can't
lose it!

Yep I think we call it a bit of string :-)

Just stick a nice bright colour long cable tie on it. Making it more
visible.


A bit of string around the flex can bring problems of its own if it is long
enough to allow the key to be used while still attached and the user leaves
it in the chuck.
A mate of mine who could rival Frank Spencer for his accident proneness or
clumsiness did that on top of an aluminium ladder while repairing some
guttering, the sparks from the severed flex as hit each rung in turn as it
fell were quite interesting to watch according to his wheel chair bound
neighbour watching from the adjoining garden,this chap had already asked
his wife to bring out his old crash helmet as previously my mate had
showered him with dislodged and broken tiles.

GH


ROFL.

I have *never* forgotten my first "safety talk" for a Saturday morning
job in the Goblin factory just outside Leatherhead in 1965, just before
I was let loose on a lathe (not to do any actual turning, just to
manually deburr a component off one of the automatic machines). The
foreman pointed up to the "sawtooth" roof where there was a classic
bullet-hole type mark in one of the wired glass roof lights about 30
feet above. "That was made by a chuck key that had been left in this
lathe when the operator switched it on".

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