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[Closed] I have an old drill - what can I make it into?

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I have an old Black & Decker cordless drill that is laying around doing nothing.

Can you use it to make a primitive wind turbine?

ta


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:17 am
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Yes.
Whether it would be worthwhile might be a more salient question though 🙂


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:19 am
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Whether it would be worthwhile might be a more salient question though

Agreed, it'd probably be rubbish, but it'd keep me quiet for a bit and interested to see if I can do it!


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:26 am
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Turn it into a hydro turbine, now that may be worthwhile....

Any proper micro and pico-wind turbines are rubbish, so a DIY version would be ubercrapola....


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:27 am
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A really hardcore whisk!


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:27 am
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Helicopter?


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:28 am
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****omatic.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:29 am
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stick a brush on the end of it and use it to clean your bike!!!!


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:30 am
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er.. a drill? I'll have it if you don't need it.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:32 am
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Drac's sound's the best

GW - the drill is pretty well ****ed - my toenail clippings have more torque - Think the motor itself is OK though


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:52 am
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a sybian

you may have to wikipedia that


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 10:41 am
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a sybian

you may have to wikipedia that

Not at work though eh?


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 10:46 am
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a sybian

you may have to wikipedia that

Every day is a school day 😯


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 11:19 am
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So out of all the things you can build they want you to make a sex toy?

Geez...

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-cordless-drill-to-crank-charger


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 11:32 am
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So out of all the things you can build they want you to make a sex toy?

you do realise sculpture, painting, writing, photography and the internet were all invented to propagate sexual titillation ?


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 11:48 am
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zaskar - is there a more noble cause for a drill to be put to? Certainly got to be better than a hand-crank drill for the love of all things blue.

Personally I'd make a wood lathe.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 2:46 pm
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you could use it to fashion the parts to make a small aircraft
then you could use the drill to power a small turntable
then you could see if the aircraft takes off.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:00 pm
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You could buy a drill water pump and use it to drain your bath of water.

Well, it would make a change from using the plug.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:11 pm
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you could use it to drill a hole in the bath to drain it.

Well, it would make a change from using the plug.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:15 pm
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you could wrap the plug chain round the bit and use to remove the plug

it wouldn't make a change from using the plug


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:30 pm
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I haven't had a bath for 4 years so using the plug would be a change :o)


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:41 pm
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LOVL!


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 3:45 pm
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Use it to become a guitar god... see link below at about 6 minutes 40 seconds in...
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Gilbert guitar solo with cordless drill[/url]


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 4:12 pm
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We use one in my workshop to power a coffee grinder.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 5:14 pm
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Every day is a school day

Except when it's a holiday!

Let's all do the Conga
All the way to Tonga
La la la la -ooh!
La la la la -ooh!


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 5:22 pm
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put a cotton bud in the chuck and have the cleanest ears on your street


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 5:27 pm
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use it to power a fan and use the fan to power a turbine and use the turbine to charge cordless drill batteries.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 5:29 pm
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Paint roller cleaner - well improve on my design anyway. It paints the room quite well though...and yourself and the windows.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 7:17 pm
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Centrifugal Paint roller cleaner - well improve on my design anyway. It paints the room quite well though...and yourself and the windows.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 7:18 pm
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paint it gunmetal grey and use it to hold up banks; first explaining that "its not a pistol its a RAYGUN THAT CAN MELT YOUR BRAIN!!!"


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 8:58 pm
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you can use it to as a starter motor for an nitro powered rc helicopter. you'd obviously need to buy a helicopter though.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 9:01 pm
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Drilldo 😈


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 9:10 pm
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mount a pencil in the chuck and use it for rewinding C90 cassettes. Don't rewind right to the end though or you may break the tape and then you won't be able to listen to John Peel's festive fifty ever again.

You can get the pencil free from Ikea, or email me your address and I'll see if I can mail you one.

[some of you may be thinking that this is well off the wall. It isn't, I did it. I had a walkman copy (Argos style) and rewinding back to the start of side one used to take an eternity and shag the batteries double quick. So I invented the drill rewinder (pat pend)]


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 10:08 pm
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an improvement of spinning the tape round on a pencil like a football rattle. My first 'personal stereo' ran on 4 D Cell batteries and was so big it came with shoulder strap. And still didn't have the luxury of a rewind, just one button that could be used to play, fast forward and stretch and mangle the tape depending on how hard you pressed it.


 
Posted : 14/04/2009 10:35 pm
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Enter robot wars?

Build a grinder?

Build an electric bike!

Auto garage door!


 
Posted : 15/04/2009 12:11 am