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I just bought a fairly high-powered drill, a Milwaukee M18 Fuel. Now for a few hours today I was drilling into fixed metal sheets with no problem, but when I started drilling through a loose sheet and into the fixed ones (each sheet maybe 1/16" thickness) the drill stopped turning the bit AFTER successfully drilling the hole.
The bit was barely pinched, sure, but it was nothing my old M18 Compact Drill couldn't have done. I had the drill set to 'drill' mode, not screw (so the variable torque setting wouldn't have affected it) and was drilling on speed 1 (it's a two-speed, 1 is slow and 2 is fast.)
Any ideas why? What was I doing wrong, I don't understand why the drill wouldn't just put the full torque into the bit to get it out.
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3 thoughts:
1) battery voltage got low and cut out (by design)
2) the motor got hot and the control circuit cut out (by design)
3) summin done got fucked
Is it working since? Try charging it?
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TWIST HARDER!
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>>1113257
On the final moment that the drill punches the hole the bit can cut threads into the last of the steel that still hasn't been chipped out. When this happens with a powerful corded drill it will try to twist your arm off or smack you in the ribs. The bit stops but the drill keeps going. The brains in the milwaukee probably detected a spike in resistance and cut off as a safety feature. Try this; once you've made it through to the other side, but not finished the hole, pull the drill out a little, really get it spinning fast and then jam it through with some force. It should blow out the last remaining metal without binding.
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>>1113330
Battery was good, hole was fully drilled. The safety in the new drills might just be so over-the-top that they won't power through things like that.
But it's funny what you say on that topic, because drilling through a couple thin sheets with an M18 Fuel was nothing, but even so I hardly ever felt anything but the lightest feather of kickback from the drill. So maybe that's the 'culprit', just some overzealous anti-kickback tech.
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>>1113257
When I drill plate steel. As I'm about to go through the last final bit I slow the drill down. Usually you can feel when you're about to go through.
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Do you have rounded drill bits? If so, the bit is slipping in the chuck and you need a 3 sided bit.
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>>1113438
Another thing, your clutch might be set to screw not drill
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>>1113439
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>>1113439
Set to drill, bit wasn't slipping (I'm not that green, but that would have been nice/easy if it were the case). Although some people are saying that setting it to screw might have helped with getting it out?
>>1113346
I'll try that tomorrow, thanks. If you don't slow down, it sticks in the hole after it's fully drilled?
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