DeWalt Power Tool Repair.

[The Mighty Volt]

Hi folks.

I dropped two 36v DeWalt drill-drivers off work bench and both are now displaying identical problems.

The motor spins perfectly but when the drill bit/screwdriver bit is depressed into the target surface, there is a bad grinding sound from inside the drill, similar to the sound when the gears are not meshing properly. The drill vibrates and makes a terrible sound. {there is a manual 3 speed setting on a DeWalt 36v drill, if you fall between settings the gears won't mesh and it grinds}

I understand that the most expensive and important part of this set-up are the 36v A123 batteries, but I like these drills, I don't want to have to toss them out.

Has anyone here come across this sort of problem before?

Thanks.

 

[liveforphysics]

Set clutch to max, set hammer-drill/screw driver setting to drill. I suspect it's just the clutch, which is perfectly normal.

I have the same dewalt 36v drill and have beaten the snot out of it, including dropping it many many times, and it's never missed a beat.

 

[bigmoose]

I had this problem on my Bosch after a year of abuse building my house... Opened the case up and found a spring steel metal "bail" that the gear change lever moves to change gears, it had popped off a warn plastic pin. My problem was in fact the gears not being fully shifted. I always used high speed, so I epoxied the shifter in that position.

 

[The Mighty Volt]

Set clutch to max, set hammer-drill/screw driver setting to drill. I suspect it's just the clutch, which is perfectly normal.

I have the same dewalt 36v drill and have beaten the snot out of it, including dropping it many many times, and it's never missed a beat.

It worked. I have no idea how but it did.

I twisted the torque setting at the front around from 1 to the maximum and she worked fine.

Why would dropping it cause a previous working setting to not work, remedied by merely reversing the setting?

I just did it with the second one and that also worked.

You just saved me a tonne of bother and possible expense. Cheers.

 

[The Mighty Volt]

I had this problem on my Bosch after a year of abuse building my house... Opened the case up and found a spring steel metal "bail" that the gear change lever moves to change gears, it had popped off a warn plastic pin. My problem was in fact the gears not being fully shifted. I always used high speed, so I epoxied the shifter in that position.

Hi, and thanks. I opened mine up also and found that a spring seemed to be quite tense. I cleaned the grease off it, refitted it and the drill seemed to go back together under less pressure than it had been taken apart. Then I also followed Lukes instructions and it worked. Cheers.