keyless Chuck

Keyless chucks are much faster and easier to use.

A recent and convenient improvement in electric drills is the introduction of the keyless chuck.

The single-sleeve keyless chuck makes bit changes a breeze, and carbide teeth provide superior gripping.

The all-metal geared chuck is quickly being superseded by the keyless chuck.

Useful accessories for cordless and conventional drills include a keyless chuck and a drilling guide.

Even the old chuck key is being made redundant, with the emergence from the workshop sawdust of the keyless chuck.

When shopping for a cordless drill, do not bother with optional features like extra batteries, carrying cases, holsters or keyless chucks.

Other features include a 24-position torque adjustment ring, a single-sleeve locking carbide keyless chuck, an ergonomic overmold and a 3-year warranty.

Most cordless drills have a keyless chuck, an automatic brake to quickly stop the chuck, an adjustable torque clutch, reverse action and variable-speed trigger control.

Certainly the keyless chuck is a joy to use, so quick and easy; the jaws can be spun open to change from a small pilot drill to a larger drill.

Pete slammed the drill in place, turned the keyless chuck to clamp the jaws tight around the shank, and finished boring the twenty-nine-yard-deep shaft, at the bottom of which they would plant a tubular charge of explosives.

There was a time when a chuck was loosened by a key, but these days most drills have a keyless chuck that allows you to quickly and easily change bits by loosening or tightening the chuck shaft collar by hand.