New Use for a Drill Motor

A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They were
setting up next to us in a campground this summer and he pulled out his old
Makita cordless drill motor and used it to operate the jacks. He told me
the shop wanted over $100 to repair the existing motor so he adapted a
back-up hand-crank end to fit the drill motor. Works great.

>Last night I sat watching AFV (America's Funniest Videos) and saw
>two...uh....men using a drill motor as a rotiserrie to turn two chickens
>on the barbie. Only trouble was, they apparently didn't have a variable
>speed drill. The chickens rotated very very fast. The guy doing the
>basting just held a paint brush against the birds while the other idiot
>tried pulsing the drill motor. Damn! BBQ sauce everywhere hey?
>
>So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
>Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!
>
>Philski

I use a cordless drill all the time for mixing iced tea and other drinks. Chuck
up a mixer beater and let 'er rip. I've found the trick is to use those 1L
German beer steins.

GTO(John)

philski wrote:

> So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
> Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!

Only problem with this idea is that when a drill is ready to retire, the
motor is completely shot anyway.

Somebody gave me a B&D benchtop bandsaw that was powered by a drill motor.
The switch wasn't working or something, so I investigated. Hoo boy, I've
never seen so much arcing! The brushes were shot, but more, they had eaten
huge ruts in the commutator, and had packed the ruts with conductive crud.

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> was probably a Walt Akers tale.
> I tried to use my router to cut drywall once since it was handy. I had to
> leave the windows open for two days in the middle of winter to let the
dust
> out.

My wife tried to clean up our house last week as we did a lot of drywall
sanding, etc and it was on the floor. She grabbed my big wet vac and didn't
ask me. She failed to check the filter (which wasn't on at all) and went to
it... About 5 minutes later, she looked behind her and couldn't see the
otehr end of the house. It was blowing all the dst she was sucking up
directly behind her and away from her. EVERYTHING in our house has a sheet
rock dust coating. I'm on teh opposite end of the house right now and look
at my brand new DSL router... It has a coating on it.

Eventually, I gave her the extra long spare hose and let her blow the dust
outside. :)

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mac davis wrote:


>>A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They were

> I use my sears drill for that..
> ours never were power, so you need to crank one in each corner..
> 1/2 cordless with a socket works great..

I would have loved to have a motor the other day. I pulled a dumbass rookie
101 screwup. I backed under a loaded trailer, cranked up the dollies,
hooked up the lines, let go of the brakes, then pulled away. WHAM! I
didn't check the hitch.

It was 1:00 AM, and there was nobody around to help me crank. Have you ever
cranked a fully loaded 45' semitrailer back up high enough to get the
tractor under it?

I found out what the low gear is for on that crank. Urk. That sucked. We
don't even haul much weight. If that had been something heavier than
furniture, it probably would have sheared the feet right off, and then I
would have been in a world of trouble with the boss man.

Funny how you do something a long time (eight years) and that's when you
make stupid newbie mistakes, because you get too comfortable that you know
what you're doing.

There's a woodworking lesson in there somewhere too, I'm sure.

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Norman D. Crow wrote:

> *spit* the tractor out from under trailer like shooting a watermelon seed
> by squeezing it. Used several of the comments from JOAT's thread about
> ww'ing philosophy, then shut up & saved my breath for cranking the dam
> dollies!

:)

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Bob Carpenter wrote:

> The other was a tanker. When the legs sheared off the punctured the
> bottom of the tank -- fortunately we didn't have to unload the 7,000 gal.
> of #2 fuel by hand. :-(
>
> No, I wasn't the driver of either one.

Ugh. It cost us $14,000 to clean up a spill from where one of our trucks
lost a fuel tank strap. I shudder to think how much the cleanup from that
spill was. They probably had to dig up half whatever state that was in and
truck it off to be decontaminated.

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There was a tale told here several years ago -
a Tim The Tool Man type. Guy was given the
task of whipping the cream for the Thanks Giving
pumpkin pie. Guy figured his 28000 rpm router
would do the job MUCH QUICKER than a little
wimpy "mixer".

No football watching due to time spent getting
the whipped cream off
the kitchen cabinet doors,
the kitchen walls
the kitchen ceiling
and the clothes of the idiots who watched

charlie b

was probably a Walt Akers tale.

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:26:54 -0500, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> Eugene <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I tried to use my router to cut drywall once since it was handy. I had to
>> leave the windows open for two days in the middle of winter to let the dust
>> out.
>
>I've seen professional drywall crews do exactly that. They've got what
>looks like a little trim router with a straight bit in it. They slap a
>piece of drywall up over an electrical box, stab it with the bit and
>zip-zip-zip trace the outline of the box. Presto, instant electrical
>box hole, exactly the right size, in exactly the right place, in less
>time than it takes to explain it.


make sure you use a DOWN spiral bit....

[email protected] wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:52:39 +0000, Eugene <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>>On a serious note myself. Before tossing that box of old 5.25" half and
>>full height MFM and RLL hard drives I pulled the top off of one and found
>>the spindle and head arm shaft have 1/4" bearings. After pulling apart
>>the rest I now have a couple dozen guide bearings for router bits.
>>
>
>
> those are nice bearings. some kick ass magnets in there too...

A whole bunch of them are nice for finding lost screws, just stick them on a
shelf and every screw in the garage will jump off the floor and fly to the
pile of magnets :)

In article <[email protected]>,
philski <[email protected]> wrote:
>Last night I sat watching AFV (America's Funniest Videos) and saw
>two...uh....men using a drill motor as a rotiserrie to turn two chickens
>on the barbie. Only trouble was, they apparently didn't have a variable
>speed drill. The chickens rotated very very fast. The guy doing the
>basting just held a paint brush against the birds while the other idiot
>tried pulsing the drill motor. Damn! BBQ sauce everywhere hey?
>
>So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
>Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!
>
>Philski

Yeah, that is funny. Anyone with experience would know that the proper
way to apply the BBQ sauce is with a HVLP spray system. Then, if the
drill speed is adjusted properly, as each piece of chicken cooks to
the proper point, it will become tender enough that it will be thrown
or "ejected" from the rotisserie. Wings first, then legs, etc. When
only the chicken carcass is left on the spit, bring out the lathe tools
and start shaving off that breast meat.


--

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"charlie b" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> charlie b
>
> was probably a Walt Akers tale.


David Eisan made a post and entered into infamy on [April 1st] 2001.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=whipped+cream+router&hl=en&lr=&selm=DyJx6.123014%24A6.29221311%40news4.rdc1.on.home.com&rnum=1

The idea has been around as far back as Google can remember though.

--

Greg

charlie b wrote:

> There was a tale told here several years ago -
> a Tim The Tool Man type. Guy was given the
> task of whipping the cream for the Thanks Giving
> pumpkin pie. Guy figured his 28000 rpm router
> would do the job MUCH QUICKER than a little
> wimpy "mixer".
>
> No football watching due to time spent getting
> the whipped cream off
> the kitchen cabinet doors,
> the kitchen walls
> the kitchen ceiling
> and the clothes of the idiots who watched
>
> charlie b
>
> was probably a Walt Akers tale.
I tried to use my router to cut drywall once since it was handy. I had to
leave the windows open for two days in the middle of winter to let the dust
out.

philski wrote:

> Last night I sat watching AFV (America's Funniest Videos) and saw
> two...uh....men using a drill motor as a rotiserrie to turn two chickens
> on the barbie. Only trouble was, they apparently didn't have a variable
> speed drill. The chickens rotated very very fast. The guy doing the
> basting just held a paint brush against the birds while the other idiot
> tried pulsing the drill motor. Damn! BBQ sauce everywhere hey?
>
> So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
> Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!
>
> Philski
On a serious note myself. Before tossing that box of old 5.25" half and
full height MFM and RLL hard drives I pulled the top off of one and found
the spindle and head arm shaft have 1/4" bearings. After pulling apart the
rest I now have a couple dozen guide bearings for router bits.

"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> mac davis wrote:
>
>
> >>A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They
were
>
> > I use my sears drill for that..
> > ours never were power, so you need to crank one in each corner..
> > 1/2 cordless with a socket works great..
>
> I would have loved to have a motor the other day. I pulled a dumbass
rookie
> 101 screwup. I backed under a loaded trailer, cranked up the dollies,
> hooked up the lines, let go of the brakes, then pulled away. WHAM! I
> didn't check the hitch.
>
> It was 1:00 AM, and there was nobody around to help me crank. Have you
ever
> cranked a fully loaded 45' semitrailer back up high enough to get the
> tractor under it?

Yup! One time! Fortunately it was an empty. Dropping an empty @ the shipping
dock to be loaded. You develop a routine, but someone interrupted the
routine in the middle, wanted me inside for something, just when I would
have cranked dollies. Came back out, pulled the pin, got in, started to pull
away. Heard that odd "grating" noise & hit the brakes, just a microsecond
too late. Single axle Astro(before air ride suspension), and the front of
the trailer had already passed the center point on 5th wheel, *spit* the
tractor out from under trailer like shooting a watermelon seed by squeezing
it. Used several of the comments from JOAT's thread about ww'ing philosophy,
then shut up & saved my breath for cranking the dam dollies!

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"Bob Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
<snipe>
> BTW New F***ing York is NOT N.E.!!!

You got THAT S**T right!!!!!!!

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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:27:21 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:52:39 +0000, Eugene <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>
>>On a serious note myself. Before tossing that box of old 5.25" half and
>>full height MFM and RLL hard drives I pulled the top off of one and found
>>the spindle and head arm shaft have 1/4" bearings. After pulling apart the
>>rest I now have a couple dozen guide bearings for router bits.
>>
>
>
>those are nice bearings. some kick ass magnets in there too...

that's what I thought, until I got my Rare Earth ones.. lol

I still have a HD magnet on the side of my bench, with my 16 oz hammer
on it.. surprises a lot of folks..

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:39:38 GMT, Ba r r y
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:57:57 -0700, philski
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
>>Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!
>
>
>There was an internet porn flick floating around where two women were
>using a Ryobi reciprocating saw, with the blade replaced by a plastic
>wiener. <G>
>


variable speed, I hope.

-Dan

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:21:01 -0600, "RonB" <[email protected]> wrote:

>A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They were
>setting up next to us in a campground this summer and he pulled out his old
>Makita cordless drill motor and used it to operate the jacks. He told me
>the shop wanted over $100 to repair the existing motor so he adapted a
>back-up hand-crank end to fit the drill motor. Works great.
>
I use my sears drill for that..
ours never were power, so you need to crank one in each corner..
1/2 cordless with a socket works great..

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:07:22 -0500, Silvan wrote:

> mac davis wrote:
>
>
>>>A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They were
>
>> I use my sears drill for that..
>> ours never were power, so you need to crank one in each corner..
>> 1/2 cordless with a socket works great..
>
> I would have loved to have a motor the other day. I pulled a dumbass rookie
> 101 screwup. I backed under a loaded trailer, cranked up the dollies,
> hooked up the lines, let go of the brakes, then pulled away. WHAM! I
> didn't check the hitch.
>
> It was 1:00 AM, and there was nobody around to help me crank. Have you ever
> cranked a fully loaded 45' semitrailer back up high enough to get the
> tractor under it?
>
> I found out what the low gear is for on that crank. Urk. That sucked. We
> don't even haul much weight. If that had been something heavier than
> furniture, it probably would have sheared the feet right off, and then I
> would have been in a world of trouble with the boss man.
>
> Funny how you do something a long time (eight years) and that's when you
> make stupid newbie mistakes, because you get too comfortable that you know
> what you're doing.
>
> There's a woodworking lesson in there somewhere too, I'm sure.

I've seen several trailers dropped that way. On two occasions the legs
went up through the bottom of the trailer. That one had to be unloaded by
hand - about 60,000 pounds of can goods.

The other was a tanker. When the legs sheared off the punctured the
bottom of the tank -- fortunately we didn't have to unload the 7,000 gal.
of #2 fuel by hand. :-(

No, I wasn't the driver of either one.

Bob

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:36:01 -0500, Silvan wrote:

> Bob Carpenter wrote:
>
>> The other was a tanker. When the legs sheared off the punctured the
>> bottom of the tank -- fortunately we didn't have to unload the 7,000 gal.
>> of #2 fuel by hand. :-(
>>
>> No, I wasn't the driver of either one.
>
> Ugh. It cost us $14,000 to clean up a spill from where one of our trucks
> lost a fuel tank strap. I shudder to think how much the cleanup from that
> spill was. They probably had to dig up half whatever state that was in and
> truck it off to be decontaminated.

It happened about 45 years ago. The reaction was, O-MY-GOD, we lost
7,000 gal. fuel!!! Oh well at least it'll keep the dust down (the spill
was in a sand pit). Nobody thought about the environment back then.

Now about 10-12 years ago one of my drivers ran over a broken spring on
I93 just north of Boston. He spilled about 15gal. of fuel and it cost us
$6,000 to dig up and dispose of 6 barrels of road-side dirt. They dug it
up, trucked it to upstate N.Y., and buried it. ??

BTW if you ever get up to N.E. let me know. Dinner is on me.

Bob

BTW New F***ing York is NOT N.E.!!!

On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:07:22 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>mac davis wrote:
>
>
>>>A little more serious. Friends of ours pull a 31' Fifth Wheel. They were
>
>> I use my sears drill for that..
>> ours never were power, so you need to crank one in each corner..
>> 1/2 cordless with a socket works great..
>
>I would have loved to have a motor the other day. I pulled a dumbass rookie
>101 screwup. I backed under a loaded trailer, cranked up the dollies,
>hooked up the lines, let go of the brakes, then pulled away. WHAM! I
>didn't check the hitch.
>
>It was 1:00 AM, and there was nobody around to help me crank. Have you ever
>cranked a fully loaded 45' semitrailer back up high enough to get the
>tractor under it?
>
>I found out what the low gear is for on that crank. Urk. That sucked. We
>don't even haul much weight. If that had been something heavier than
>furniture, it probably would have sheared the feet right off, and then I
>would have been in a world of trouble with the boss man.
>
>Funny how you do something a long time (eight years) and that's when you
>make stupid newbie mistakes, because you get too comfortable that you know
>what you're doing.
>
>There's a woodworking lesson in there somewhere too, I'm sure.

the closest I ever came to that was getting off a forklift a little
too soon..
it hadn't stopped enough to set the brake and it kept going at about
walking speed... right off the end of the dock..lol

In article <[email protected]>,
Eugene <[email protected]> wrote:

> I tried to use my router to cut drywall once since it was handy. I had to
> leave the windows open for two days in the middle of winter to let the dust
> out.

I've seen professional drywall crews do exactly that. They've got what
looks like a little trim router with a straight bit in it. They slap a
piece of drywall up over an electrical box, stab it with the bit and
zip-zip-zip trace the outline of the box. Presto, instant electrical
box hole, exactly the right size, in exactly the right place, in less
time than it takes to explain it.

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:52:39 +0000, Eugene <[email protected]>
wrote:


>On a serious note myself. Before tossing that box of old 5.25" half and
>full height MFM and RLL hard drives I pulled the top off of one and found
>the spindle and head arm shaft have 1/4" bearings. After pulling apart the
>rest I now have a couple dozen guide bearings for router bits.
>


those are nice bearings. some kick ass magnets in there too...

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:57:57 -0700, philski
<[email protected]> wrote:


>So, the moral of the story is - don't throw away those old drill motors!
>Get creative. See if Emeril will buy them from you!


There was an internet porn flick floating around where two women were
using a Ryobi reciprocating saw, with the blade replaced by a plastic
wiener. <G>

Barry