that was painful to watch. i give you props for sticking with it. i would have set it on fire

It didn’t take long for this to become my favorite channel on KZfaq!

I was a Millwright for 11 years, and earned the Moniker of Shooz. Short for shoemaker. Because I was the go to for Crap jobs.. So!!! I bestow the Nick Name upon you Sir. Well Done.. Cheers Dog....

The people at Dewalt probably had a huge party after watching this

Wanting a keyed chuck on my Dewalt 996 or whatever drill brought me here, thank you for the awesome video that shows what happens to real people doing real things with real tools.

Holy crap! I had the exact same thing happen to me. "Easy replacement, just hit it with a hammer"....NO. Could NOT get the chuck off. Ordered a new drill and then ran across this video. Snapped right off after about 12 hours in the freezer. THANK YOU! Saved me $120

Fuzzy deserves more subs the content he puts out in unlike any other car KZfaqr.

It's amazing what a good temperature differential will do. I froze the axle bushings and ball joints for my TJ before pressing them in and it easily removed half of the work. Kind of made me want to buy an industrial sized freezer to park entire cars in...

This is the only thing that worked for me!! I never would have thought about this. I put the drill in the freezer for 24 hrs and then had to smack the wrench with a hammer three times and it came off! thank you very much.

I bet the broom stick wouldn’t break on you like that.

This ABSOLUTELY works. Thank you. I have a Dewalt right angle drill that the chuck got ruined (Note that the right-angle dewalt does not have a bolt inside the chuck). I hit it for 10 minutes with a hammer on a hex key and the chuck would turn but not break loose. I put it in the freezer for 90 minutes, put the hex key in the chuck, two whacks later it came loose. Brilliant

😂😂 the sarcasm is so great keep it up and never stop

Thanks for the all the information in your video. I had almost given up hope of getting the locking screw out. Broke a couple of star bits but to no avail. But I used your idea of the impact drill and sure enough it worked. Many many thanks.

This is totally how it goes for me, not as it should! So then I give up on salvaging w/e and decided to just beat-on it, set it on fire and then cut it up until I win!

DeWalt and Bostitch drills are amazing. My kid left my Bostitch in a wheelbarrow, and it rained so the drill was completely submerged in water. I took it all apart and scraped a little corrosion off and got a new battery because the old one was toast and I got my drill back.

Dewalt is the best brand out there as you can tell from watching a video

For a moment I thought I was watching an ave vidjay-o Very nice as always Keep your stick in the ice

Oh. my. freakin. god. Thank you. This actually worked. I could not get the chuck of my DCD795 to come loose (after also having problems with removing the setscrew on which I sheared two T20 bits off but WD40 did the trick then). I put the drill into the freezer for a day and after that I chucked in a (warm) allen wrench and after whacking the allen wrench 10 times or so (holding the drill in my hand) it finally came loose.

I came across this because I want to change my chuck. To quote Top Gun ‘We’re showing this as an example of what NOT to do!’

Wow, you weren't kidding the hard way! I'm surprised that you couldn't get the big heavy hammer smack against a big allen wrench in the chuck method to work. I have done this to a few of my DeWalt 20V drills that come with some lower end/worn out keyless chucks, usually takes a few good swings but they will pop loose. Keyed chucks are good for a big hd corded drill, but too much of a hassle for a cordless, I went with a heavy duty keyless chuck that the DeWalt DCD996 hammer drill uses.

Probably a bit late to the comments but I have just had to do the chuck on my dewalt drill. After you take the t20 restraining screw out, my chuck had a t45 hole inside the chuck to release it from the spindle. Made it a lot easier

Maaan this is more like a commercial than tutorial Dewalt should give you free supply from now on, amazing!!

Thanks for the video. What a joke, you guys probably want to crush the drill after a while. But you stayed steady at it and got it! That’s awesome. I have a similar issue. The jaws stink, that’s an understatement. I’ll try to work on mine in the near future.

This was as humorous as it was informative. I'm trying to change the keyless chuck on an 18V 1/2" heavy duty cordless drill that has seen some heavy duty use so I'm expecting that the chuck will require a heavy duty removal process. It's the one with the metal gearbox & selectable torque value for use on screws & bolts. Thanks for the video.

We used the allen key method but then added a lot of leverage with an old crutch. It came off super easy.

I do not know if that trick with a freezer helped but I did it, Thumb up to you man!

When you get to the last bit, try sanding a flat on opposite sides with a rough sanding pad, stick it in a vice and hopefully reverse it off. The heat from the sanding helps to free it and the flats stop it spinning in the vice.

“Aaaannnddd everything in the drill broke” I laughed to much at that

I watched a 1/2 dozen clips how easy it is to remove a dewalt chuck yet my experience was like yours. I was trying to remove a perfectly good chuck from a DW770. I now have zero usable parts left. The little gears cogs will make nice collectables for me to throw away some years from now.

And this is why i'm subscribed to this channel. Sometimes, projects and repairs don't go as planned, and you are not afraid to show this on your channel.

One of the best You Tube videos I have ever seen! Very Funny

After seeing this I bought a DeWalt 998 drill thank you dude.

Not what I wanted to see after already trying to remove mine with no luck... But thanks none the less. Good vid.

I love the narrative commentary

I'm having to do the same exact process with a rigid drill. Glad it's not just me

meanwhile my Dewalt drill has a chuck that wont stay on...

I have an Big AEG cordless drill and the chuck has seized, so no way can I get the centre bolt out. After watching your video, I am now ready to cut the chuck in half so I can get the centre bolt out. Before I do that I will find out if it has a clockwise or anti-clockwise thread. Thanks. I am glad you mentioned it.

Bring it to a service center and they will probably remove the chuck for free. That's what I did. Putting the chuck in the vise is the wrong way to do it. Put the socket in the chuck, tighten it and use the biggest breaker bar you got with both hands. Put the body in the vise with wood to protect it. The square drive part goes in the middle of the breaker bar, and a strong quick snap does it.

Well you make one hell of a DeWalt commercial, I must say.

never thought i would be up at 2 am watching you beat the fuck out of a drill with a sledgehammer

I have a brand new drill I want to upgrade the chuck on. The stock Röhm chuck is good but full metal chucks dont click around as much. I have tried a lot and am surprised the chuck is still straight but throwing it in the freezer is genius. I was gonna try heating the chuck but that could easily go wrong and damage the drill.

Must say I'm really starting to like the series

Nice to see real world , instead of all the other videos where the chuck just falls of from farting on it , its never as easy as all the other videos make it out to be , we see lots of drills where the chuck just won't let go and come off.

REALLY helpful and clear, thank you. If I was in US then I'd buy the replacement chuck from you :-)

When you got the thing out of freezer and started hitting it I thought the plastic will shatter lmao

Love the videos

Not likely that any of this is going to help out with this issue, but here goes!! It's the sudden violent impact, that get the chuck loose. It's difficult to do, sometimes, but usually works!! I have never broke one loose from just that hard twisting. Freezing likely helped a bit, and some penetrant would likely help. Acetone and trans fluid makes a great homemade solution. You need to put a 90 degree tool in the chuck, and hit it with a hammer. You need a longer lever. And a larger hammer! Think "TORQUE WRENCH"! Think "CHEATER BAR"! But, you need it solid, and be able to hit it hard, and not let the drill give way, like when it's held in a hand! A piece of bent re-bar might work. Just put a bend right close to e end, and chuck that up!! If it will tighten up, and you don't plan to reuse it, tighten even more with s pipe wrench! The tool don't need to bend away, so a bigger piece of re-bar, or a shorter length! A 3/8 in, 4inch long extension, with the square drive end tightened up. Then put a breaker bar in to add torque. Don't push on it, strike it. It's like the multiple blows of an impact driver, the hard hits, over several times, over a short period, that usually does it. A 3/8 Allen wrench and a 12 framing hammer, may not have the gumption to do it. Not MANLY ENOUGH!! Have someone hold the drill with two hands, tightly and solidly. Then hold the tension on the tool with one hand, and strike repeatedly with a good solid mass of MANMETAL!! A 3lb hand sledge, OR BIGGER should work! The strike will put a tremendous shock load on it for a millisecond, and not tend to load up and bind like a constant pull will! I hope this info helps someone else get their chuck off, without too much trouble! I needed this info for the first drill I destroyed, removing the chuck, I finally got the chuck off, but there was nothing left of the drill. Luckily, I wanted the chuck for another drill, and wasn't worried about the first drills TOTAL DESTRUCTION!! The drill that I wanted to put the chuck on, was an older one direction, no impact, one speed, hand me down, twist drill from another era! I was already done with the stupidity, since I destroyed a smaller, lighter, reversible, variable speed, nicer drill, but was a battery drill and the batteries were dead, and cost more than I wanted to spend, and the old key style chuck on the old electric drill had no key, and was going to be a chore to do what I was needed it for. I fought the old chuck for a few minutes, and just suddenly thought to get a longer helped tool! And old, unused screwdriver, was the answer!! It fit the old chuck, was stiff enough, and was fairly easy to get bent to a 90degree bend! My neighbor saw me struggling, and lent a hand, and a BIGGER HAMMER!! The first attempt was fruitless. He wasn't hold it still enough, and I was afraid of hitting him with an errant blow, and a flying hammer from my tired hands and arms!! He said to go for it, and he proper it on his knees, held it tight for just a slight moment, and I swung it like i meant to hit it!! Popped it loose without any problems!! It hurt his knees a little, but nothing else!! No other issues after that!! Oh, the little screw inside, to hold it on, is really REVERSE THREAD! The destroyed drill suffered that lose first! The old drill, it wasn't as tight, and as I screwed it the wrong way, it tightened up. And when I went to turn it back, to help prevent tearing up the threads, it loosened!! IM AGINE MY SURPRISE!! A screw from England!! The threads were on the wrong side, just like their cars!! Lol

Love the commentary!

Damn that drills tough

I bought a brand new Dewalt 20v max heavy duty drill, used it for the first time with my brand new Eskimo auger and during the 2nd hole I drilled, the chuck completely fell off along with my ice fishing auger into the bottom of the lake.

You mention it was just spinning your suppose to put it in lowest gear for removal. You could also crank your air compressor up to 225 psi and a decent impact will remove anything 😁

nice vid

Wish I would of know that trick. My Dad had. Milwaukee drill that he had for like 20 years and my brother got a drill bit stick in the head of the bolt inside of the Chuck. I tried getting it off with all of the cutting methods but we finally gave up and had to throw it away.

I have a nice old Swiss watch my grandpa left me that I wonder if you'd have a look at for me.

Dam, that was some torture test.

Ouch! I am shocked that the drill still works! I love dewalt.

LMFAO absolutely love your dry sense of humor it's just like mine

I could get that very difficult chuck screw out so had to drill it. Am currently trying to undo the chuck (a/c) with allen key in the chuck to snap the remainder of the chuck screw. Not fun at all.

I've got a ~40 year-old Ryobi drill which has also seen better days. It was going pretty well until I used it as a die grinder against some mag wheels, it's never sounded the same since. It definitely needs new motor brushes and I'd like to put new bearings in it like you did with your angle grinder. Makes you really see the value of these brand name tools, the typical $9 Harbour Freight tool would have died a million deaths handling the same abuse.

That was pretty funny, but hey it worked!

Hello any idea why my chuck knob became stiff when i try to tighten it?

How do I remove inside star screw?? It flat due to hammer drilling. 😢

Is there a link to that new chuck? Also mine is stuck all the way open and will not close up. Therefor ii cannot tighten any hex wrench in the chuck to loosen it! Ever seen this one before? Any tips would be appreciated!

That’s cannibalism Dewalt eats smaller Dewalt.

ive tried this.. about 50-50 success.. the drill makers have some compound i think they apply to the threads during asemembly

DeWalt? Are you watching? Great vid!

It was good to see your perseverance and your honest recounting of the Odyssey of how you achieved your goal Why not use an angle grinder in the first place? Occhams razor taken to its limits 3:20 3:21 3:22

Every other tutorial for this on the internet uses an older model Drill, FYI, so thank you so much for doing this, as I think something about the new design makes it harder to use the hammer+alan key approach (But I am now terrified to complete this process on my own drill (I will use the freezer first) I thought the 'everything is broken' comment was factual at first and was... heartbroken) EDIT: Nvm my channelocks did the trick

Sit with the same problem.. Threw it in the freezer (twice now)..yet to no avai. Next move… start cutting the chuck down in the hope to yield the same result as per the end the video.. 🤞🏼

At least the torx screw came loose! I've broken 3 bits and nothing.. Probably just take the thing outside and shoot it with my 45

Way to go bro. I have the DCD777 which does not have a Torx or Phillips head chuck screw. It's well, a smooth dimple. I have no idea how to get that one out, but I would appreciate it if you could point me in the direction where you bought your keyed chuck. I too do not like the keyless chuck idea for reasons we've seen here, (it's an expendable part). I'd like to get that keyed chuck. Oh, did it come with a key as well? Best to you.

Breaking out the big ass steel cutter crikey bit extreme but does the job 👍

have you ever thought of making merchandise, specifically fuzzy dice?

@ 1:18 I think I found out how baby drills are made

that was hard to watch... in a later episode, "I don't know why it broke, I was just drilling a hole..."

Quedo bien bellaco

How's the Pontiac going?

This is a rare bit of patience, everyone else woulda just thrown that sucker away and bought a new one.

You've got to strike when the irons cold.

This video made my day Lol

Hello, #DeWalt? This channel has clearly proven that your tools can survive most uses(advised & otherwise), so how about you sponsor a video & supply maybe a couple of new drills? Thanks!

Fluffy dice

I would have just taken the drill apart - and given up when that didn't work😂

Certainly seems "built tough"! (Project Blinky Ep 25 out now by the way.)

Someone needs to get a "work smarter not harder" poster and like staple it to his forehead lol jokes aside love your content

I have the exact same model The chuck will not come out Tried the ale wrench Nothing A pipe wrench. Nothing I am going to try the freezer method (update) I tried the freeze method, the chuck would still not move had to use the grinder.

Dewalt engineer: Only thing that happen to our drill now is that the chuck gets loose. Dewalt worker: "Tighting to 500 ft/lb intesifies"

but if you repair tools for a living how much can you charge for the time spent on this one low cost tool ?. Great vid tho.

I think craftsman (the name of my drill) put some anti remove greese on my drill

Did the same thing

Highlander!

Cpa want to know your location. Tool abuse! Wasn't enjoying that haha

This is why we can't have nice things. Kidding aside that says something about the build of that drill that after all that felony grade abuse it kept on keepin on.

The housing is fiberglass reinforced. This is why is so stur

OMGLOL I hope you win a decent lottery ticket.

Considering the cost of these things are pretty low now, it is my opinion.....and most will say I'm wrong......that replacement would have been the more effective route. And you get a warranty with it.

Did it not occur to you to just take the thing apart and remove the chuck after taking apart the gear shaft? It would have saved you a lot more time and saved your drill from the wear and cosmetic damage.

...and that is when I realized it was threaded the other way.

5 years i NOTHING, try having one for 15 to 20 years

This video hurt my soul