10 Cool Things to Do With Your Drill

I love my drill, and I find that I use it everyday.

Here are 10 cool things you can do with it other than screw screws and drill holes.

Step 1 Electric Mixer

With some recipes, mixing by hand just won't cut it. (Like my yummy Mile High Chocolate Cream Pie.)If you don't have an electric mixer, here is a easy, and fun alternative.

Open the chuck, put the end of a fork in, tighten the chuck, and mix mix mix.

Comments

[GoCubs252]

"Drill fork, it's a drill and fork... mostly fork!" -The Janitor, Scrubs Someone actually made it!

[stephenniall]

Knife wrench .. you know for kids

[WillTheRescue]

I was JUST watching that episode!

[BedroomEmperor]

I tried to braid my neice's hair once... Didn't work out so well...

[Ubbo]

There should have been a vid of the CATFIGHT!

[albmorgan]

Here's another one: My husband attached the paint mixer attachment to our drill and used it to stir up some serious bubble action in our daughter's bubble bath.

[CrimsonChain]

Another thing you can do with a drill kind of like making yarn is making cables. Take some wire and bend it in half, put the bent part on a eye hook in the drill chuck and hold the other end with some heady pliers. Pull it taught and hold down the trigger till its wound to the tightness you want it.

[Art Nut]

Portable drills and portable screw drivers are great for borrowing toilet paper from your relatives bathrooms. Simply tape an empty roll to the long screwdriver. Tape the end of the paper to the empty roll. Turn the drill on to its slowest speed and load er up. Don't ever steal or do anything illegal.

[rimar2000]

You can see this also: http://www.instructables.com/id/An-easy%2c-cheap-and-efficient-way-to-straighten-and/

[keng]

the rope out of plastic bags is always a great idea. the rope making group on yahoo had several members do this. one even made it with both longitudinally and latitudinal cut pieces. it seems they are MUCH stronger when cut up and down rather than across. I use my drill like an Egyptian Club to make 3 strand rope all the time too. Nice work on the article. Put it up for the tool contest.

[RaisedByRobots]

cool! I'm surprised your kitty doesn't mind the sound of the drill motor! cute!

[domestic_engineer]

I thought that too, but my cats are crazy, they try to ride the vacuum cleaner.

[ve2vfd]

Don't forget a drill makes a perfect paint mixer... I needed to mix paint a whle ago. I had a 2 ft long 1/4in aluminum rod lying around and bent it in the shape of a "J", put that in the drill chuck and voila... instant paint mixer.

[marc.cryan]

Yes. I used to make an impromptu wisk from wire coat hangers. Perfect for mixing a monster 5 gallon paint bucket.

[firehazrd]

yes drills rule. I might suggest a "gator grip" socket- I use that thing all the time! you could also make a pump or a fan- dont forget sanding and cutting either!

[LinuxH4x0r]

Nice work!
^{Its a drill, not a screw gun, a screw gun has a thing that automatically feeds screws in front of the bit}

[domestic_engineer]

Duh! you're right i fixed it thanks

[Phil B]

Sometimes I need a specially shaped rod or screw, especially the screw head. I chuck it up in a battery drill and hold it spinning against a spinning grinding wheel. I call it my "poor man's lathe." Once I was doing an object lesson for some Sunday School children. I do not remember what the point was, but I had a wheel with a short axle I chucked up in my drill. The wheel was white with black stripes in various patterns. When it spins at just the right speed someone watching from a certain relatively close distance will see pastel colors instead of black and white.