Tag: Drill

  • Recycled Sash Weights

    Recycled Sash Weights

    As I’ve mentioned in other posts I’ve been making some sash windows over the last few months and the time has come to start hanging the sashes which requires sash weights. Due to a design time miscalculation of the weights of the windows I only bought about half the sash weights that I needed – I…

  • Axminster ED16B2 Pillar Drill Review

    Axminster ED16B2 Pillar Drill Review

    I recently bought an Axminster ED16B2 pillar drill and I thought I would bang out a quick review for anyone else interested in getting one of these drills. It seems since I wrote this article Axminster have stopped selling this exact model but it’s a fair bet that the Axminster Trade pillar drills are identical other…

  • Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 2

    Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 2

    In part one I opened the drill and took the innards out. In this article I’ll open the motor and make the repair.

  • Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 1

    Makita Drill Driver Repair – Part 1

    My electric drill decided to start shooting fire and smoke at me the other day so I thought that it was time to take it apart and see what was inside. My experience of taking apart modern tools led me to believe that it was probably going to be a bin job but I was…