Pvc Hand drill

Unless you mail order it, you can not find a hand drill. To make things more fun. Replacement bit grips are not in-expensive. But I did find one and proceeded from there. This project came about for a need to do work late at night without having to wake people up and for a need to save on electricity. Most of what I make is not heavy duty craftsmanship. so this drill is perfect for the job. Hope it does well for you.

Step 1 What you need:

Parts;
1 - 2 foot section of 1/2 inch pvc pipe. (B, D, F, H, i) (1 - 1 inch and 4 - 4 inch)
4  - 1/2 inch elbows pvc  (C, E, G,  P) (ignore the cursor in C, I forgot to move the mouse)
1 - 1/2 inch cap pvc  (J)
1 - 1 inch tee pvc with the center part threaded.   (M)
1 - 1 inch extension pvc  (K)
1 - 1 inch cap for extension pvc  (L)
1 - 1 inch screw in cap for tee pvc (N)
1  - Drill chuck replacement and 2 inch mounting bolt.  (I used a 1/2 inch chuck) (A, O)
Glue

Tools:
saw
mallet
level flat surface
ruler

Comments

[Goodluck]

Nicely done. How is it holding up? One might be able to make something similar out of threaded metal pipe and fittings if one uses loctite on the pipe joints to keep them from loosening. Maybe I'll try that. I've been using the drill I built quite a bit, sometimes it might be nice to have two.

[Computothought]

Cool. I wanted to use pipe, but it was not cost effective. Your Idea gave me an idea for a drill press. So simple I should of thought of it before. When I hear the word fork. I know they must either be a programmer or an open source advocate..

[Computothought]

You could have made one easily out of pipe, but it would have been more expensive (at least for me) to that then just to mail order one. Was thinking about making a drill press version, but no incentive right now. Thanx for asking, for light duty work it has been doing just fine.

[kaworu]

Nice work! I've had done a "fork" of your drill:

The substantial differences:

brown "cold water" pvc tube, 25mm diameter (1/4') and a diferent design. There is two possible points to put a grip for "heavy-work" (with brad point drill bits). It uses a 3/8 chuck from Bosch

[galadriel]

Hey, FYI, I've seen hand drills at Sears. I also got a pair of them off ebay for $10. This is a clever way to go about making a lightweight hand drill, certainly.

[Computothought]

Thanx for your comment. My particular Sears did not have one even though the catalog shows one, but I have to been to the local Sears. hardware specialty store. Also I found out that Ace is suppose to have one. It is closer by so, I may go by and check it out. By building something you understand a whole lot better how it works. It has been a conversation piece for sure.

[l8nite]

Nicely done.... Ive always heard these called a "brace" or "brace and bit" but then to my grandad a drill was the metal fluted piece that did the work, the drill motor was what made the drill spin.. try walking into the tool store and asking for a drill motor nowAdays.....

[Computothought]

Thanx for the kind words. Now that I think about it, I remember hearing it called that also. So long ago. Your right about asking for it in stores. It is a shame as they still have manual tools for everything else.