Drill bit stuck in impact driver…help!
emaxxman00
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Grrr….put impact driver (Makita Nimh model) today. Unfortunately the bit is stuck. At first the little thing-a-ma-bob on the chuck that you move forward to insert/release a bit wouldn’t move. It’s moving now but the bit is still stuck. I suspect that the ball catch is stuck.
Anybody have any idea how to the bit out? I would prefer not opening up the drill if I don’t have to…but I will if that is the only way.
I love this driver…I hope this is not the end for it.
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This has happened to me on occasion with my Makita impact driver. I've learned from a McFeelys tech guy that Makita quick release chucks have notoriously tight clearances (maybe a good thing?). Anyway, I have had success with clamping vise grips to the bit and while pulling back on the chuck collar, smacking the vise grips with a hammer. This procedure might make you cringe but it doesn't seem to have a detrimental affect on the driver. Keeping a little WD-40 sprayed in the chuck once in a while makes the mechanism work more freely. I wonder what Makita would have to say about that.
Capture the bit somehow. Vise. Visegrips. Whatever.
Then put it in reverse for a few strokes.
Whenever that happens to me, I never seem to have vise grips around, but I usually have my drill (for pre-drilling), so I figured out to chuck the bit from the front in the drill, and then wiggle the nose-to-nose drill and impact.
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One of my panasonic impact drivers does this. I find if I take my dikes and use the cutting edges of them to grip the impact bit close to the collet, I can lever the dikes to pull the bit out of the collet a small amount. Once the bit is no longer bottomed out in the collet it releases normally.
It almost seems like there used to be a shim in the bottom of the collet to keep the bits from going in too deep and mine fell out??? and the pressure on the bit while driving screws forces the bit in against the ball and jams up the collet release.
Hopefully this makes sense. Good luck with your makita.
tap on the end of the bit a couple of times knocking it deeoer in to the impactor..
mind ya I said tap...
then try to remove it...
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grab a pair of pliers. this happens to us all the time. impact drivers are rough on any bit put in them. someone needs to design a bit made for all the force an impact can give out.
The very first phillips screw I drove in with my impact driver broke the tip off in the screw. Obviously not an impact rated bit.
This happens with my Bosch impactor when I use Erwin bits. Went to DeWalt Impactor Ready bits and have no problem.
Nailer
Never had a bit stick in my Ryobi impact driver chucks.
Have had a bunch of bits stick in magnetic extensions after being used in the impact driver.
The solutions offered in previous posts will work, and I have used them all depending on what I had available.
I am still looking for an "impact ready" extension manufacturer..........
Jim
Try reverse
Thanks all. After screwing around with it last night for an hour I gave up. This morning (after a fresh cup of coffee), I shot some WD40 into the chuck, clamped the hex shaft to a bench vise, hit it in forward and reverse a few times. That did the trick. I guess the WD40 help to lubricate the ball catch and got it unstuck.Driver is about 3 years old and it's been put to good use. Glad that I didn't have to open it up or worse, buy a new one. It's a nimh model and those lithiums out now are crazy expensive.
Too bad you got it out! But I was going to offer to let you send it to rest at Piffin's home for old tools
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I've found putting it in rewind holding trigger and beating the tip off whatever is close unbinds it.
But I'm a little slow.
Dan
HA HA! It would've gone on to the shelf with my old Craftsman cordless. Not sure why I still have the Craftsman. Batts are dead and new batts aren't sold for it anymore and I can get a cheap Ryobi that outperforms it 100x over.
Yeah, I've got an old original PC cordless that way. Batterioes will hold for an hour or two around the house if I plan the night before.
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Happen to me with my bosh impact drill...After studying the internet and having to be a mechanic to fix the problem, I found an easy solution to the problem from this page. Used WD40 put it down the drive, wait an hour, put the bit in a vice, spun the the bit (by use of the BOSH impact), spin it forward then back and pop it out ---- now using only bosh 1/4 sockets only
That happened to me. I used vice grips. Worked
PS...here is a good reference
https://www.hunker.com/13415054/how-to-remove-a-drill-bit-from-wood
I have a Milwaukee 18v impact drill which I have used for the last 9 years without any mishaps. That is until this week when the hex shaft I was using sheared off in the collet. The end of the shaft is flush with the bottom of the collet and consequently there is nothing to grip onto. I have literally drowned the entire collet/chuck in WD 40 overnight. I have tapped the end, I have removed the front end to see if it could be pushed out all to no avail. Anyone any suggestions?