Attachments to the grinder and drills with their own hands. Accessories for grinders: DIY

Drill attachment - Malco Turboshear TSNS1 scissors. Able to cope with both slate and slate.

But did you know that a conventional drill can do much more than just drill? Its capabilities are significantly expanded by special attachments, nozzles and various devices.

Surely not every drill owner knows that it can not only drill holes, but also saw, mill, and even turn into a lathe or a pump for pumping liquids. Such an enviable multifunctionality of an ordinary electric drill is due to the abundance of a wide variety of attachments, attachments and devices. It is hardly possible to find another power tool for which there are so many attachments as for an electric drill.

Of course, the multifunctionality of the drill created by attachments is in no way able to replace the park of a special professional tool (in terms of cleanliness of processing, accuracy and productivity). But at the household level, all the additional functions acquired by the drill will fully satisfy the needs of the home master.


The SC 165 quick clamp ensures fast clamping of the workpiece when drilling. The holder for a drill provides fast fixing of a drill and performance of stationary works. Can be rotated 360 degrees like vertical. Likewise horizontally.

The most widely represented drill stops. The simplest stop, mounted on the auxiliary handle of the drill (accessory set: auxiliary handle and stop with a metric scale), allows you to drill holes to the desired depth. With it, you will never accidentally drill through a workpiece or a thin partition.

More perfect, because it controls not only the depth of the hole, but also its verticality relative to the surface to be machined. This type of attachments is available for both construction (drilling in walls and ceilings) and carpentry (furniture) work. The prefix for construction purposes is professional and is a single unit with an additional handle mounted on a powerful drill. Some models have a built-in dust extractor connected to a vacuum cleaner.

The simplest stop for a drill is an additional handle. It has an adjustable drilling depth stop (metric)

The professional stop is more reliable and has a convenient metric depth gauge scale.

Parallel stop, in addition to the depth of the hole, sets its perpendicularity. Model for working on vertical surfaces.

A dust extractor is also required for a drill. They are equipped with individual models of professional stops. Connect to a vacuum cleaner.

Attachments for carpentry structurally close to the racks of hand mills, but made less accurately and are intended only for home small jobs. And more is not required here: a drill is a low-speed tool (relative to an electric cutter) and does not provide high accuracy in surface treatment. The drill is clamped in a basket that easily moves along two vertical rails.

Attachments and nozzles for drilling at an angle It will allow you to drill a hole where it is simply impossible to approach with a conventional drill. Depending on the version and manufacturer, the drilling angle may be different. The most common nozzles allow drilling at an angle of 90º.





This attachment allows you to limit the drilling depth, provides a strict verticality of the hole and allows you to perform (appropriate nozzles) some milling work. This is especially important when making furniture at home: inserting furniture hinges, holes for assembly fasteners and dowels, or grooving. The stop can be equipped with various inserts for lateral drilling in round or complex profile parts. Some models of stops have a dust extraction device connected to a vacuum cleaner. But a professional will prefer a manual milling machine (same operating possibilities, but high surface finish and precision).

Of course, holes in parts can be made most accurately and quickly on a drilling machine. But the drill, equipped, shows an excellent result. As a rule, such a stand is equipped with a convenient clamping vice (for the workpiece). The vise can be moved along the rack frame to the desired position.

The drill (almost any) is easily and quickly clamped in the “basket” of the rack and the drilling machine is ready to work. Its compact size, smooth feed and accurate metric scale make it a valuable asset for the small workshop.

A home master can get by with the simplest parallel stop: made of plastic, the dust localizes in itself.

Carpentry rip fence: Guide slot and inserts for lateral drilling in timber and round workpieces.

Removal of dust and sawdust in this attachment is essential. With it, the drill can already work as the simplest manual milling machine.

There are additional functional holes on the attachment platform, with which you can also install a side stop. In this case, the drill is able to perform all the operations of a hand mill, for example, to accurately select the groove (with the appropriate nozzle).

Can't help but arouse interest. The prefix is ​​easily fixed on the table and the machine is ready. Offered in several designs. As a rule, a certain set of fixtures and cutting tools is offered for it. This type of set-top box does not pretend to be a professional tool, but many parts for individual furniture or a country house can be made on it and quite well. But if you start mass production of turned legs for tables or balusters on this console, it will quickly break down, and the drill will not withstand such violence. Our photographs give a visual representation of the design and principle of operation of this console.

A compact wood lathe is the dream of any home craftsman. There are several types of turning attachments for drills. They differ not only in their design, but also in the set of cutting tools offered for them.

The most famous and common are prefixes that turn drill in electric grinder. Here we will introduce you to only two specialized attachments of this type: one for sharpening circular saw blades and the other for sharpening drills, chisels and planer knives. The value of prefixes lies in the fact that they allow you to refuse the expensive services of professional sharpeners of such a tool. With them, you will not have problems with either the sharpening angle or the perfect cutting edge (even if you have never done this before). Installing such prefixes on a drill does not cause difficulties.

A drill stand plus a drill is a handy drill press. The design of the bed allows you to mount a clamping vice on it to fix the workpiece.

Vice for racks come in different modifications. But their mounting holes must necessarily correspond to the grooves in the rack frame.

The vice on the bed can be displaced. There are options with rotation of the vice around the axis and even with a changing angle of the rack.

A drill mounted in a stand, plus an abrasive nozzle, allows you to create high-quality concave surfaces.

Worthy of attention convenient for work and compact milling attachment grooves in the ends of cabinet furniture or joinery (for corner joints). Working with it is very simple: there is no need to clamp the workpiece on the workbench, the quality and accuracy of processing are high, the depth of the groove and its level are set by a simple adjustment. This prefix will quite satisfy also the professional furniture maker.

For those masters whose work is very diverse, it will not be superfluous and long flexible or angle drive for drill. They are simply installed in the drill chuck and have their own chuck suitable for any attachments (drills, grinding stones, bits, etc.). These attachments allow you to work with a drill in the most inaccessible places. It is unlikely that anyone would think of using a drill for pumping liquids.

But it is quite real and not without meaning, if you use attachment-pump installed in the drill chuck. Of course, it is not designed for long-term continuous operation and has a low productivity, but it is possible and quite convenient to pump out paint (viscous) from a barrel or dirty water from a basement. By changing the speed of the drill, you change the speed of pumping fluid. As a rule, the entire body of such a set-top box is plastic: the service life is short, but the price is low.

The attachment for sharpening disk blades allows you to do it yourself, without resorting to an expensive professional service.

Grooves for corner joints can also be selected with a drill, equipped with a special attachment. It has a dust extraction device.

The long flexible drive with chuck is another nice addition to the drill. It works with any attachments.

High-quality sharpening of a drill, chisel or planer knife will help to make a small attachment to the drill. Sharpening angle is adjustable.

The drill can be used as a screwdriver, suitable for working even in hard-to-reach and inconvenient places.

The drill can work as a pump. Nozzles come in different capacities (suitable for paint and even dirty water).

Professional template: durable, reduces the labor involved in marking and drilling standard holes for furniture assembly.

The furniture template for drilling holes has standard dimensions: holes, distances between them and from the edge of the part.

This template ensures the verticality of the hole and its centering. A plastic template is enough for a home master.

It is generally accepted that templates noticeably speed up many operations, increase the accuracy of processing parts and their assembly. This can be confirmed by the abundance of existing drill templates. We show only the most common patterns that are most often in demand when working with a drill. Among them there are both professional (durable and maintaining the accuracy of their dimensions), and for home craftsmen (made of plastic).

Template (jig) for drilling precise holes for dowels.

But regardless of this, they contain all the main standard sizes of furniture holes: for inserting hinges and locks, for furniture ties and dowels, as well as the distance between them and from the edges of parts. Some templates allow you to abandon the parallel stop.






Without a good system of dust removal and garbage collection, with independent work, sometimes you can not do. The DeWALT DWA500DC dust collector will help with vertical drilling in the ceiling.

Filigree channel drilling

A&M has developed special nozzle for drilling wood. Under the MILWAUKEE brand name, it's called Pathfinder, and under the AEG brand name, it's called 3D bit. The use of such a special nozzle for a drill will greatly facilitate the work of builders, joiners, carpenters and locksmiths, as well as electricians and plumbers, because it can be used to drill inclined holes in hard-to-reach places, gutters and channels for installing cables and pipes.

The cutting action of this nozzle is carried out in three directions and allows you to cut into the material where conventional drills are powerless. The drilling speed of the new nozzle is three times faster than with a flute drill, and the selection of channels, grooves and grooves is much more accurate, so the holes are even, smooth and without chips. The drill has six edges, which are sharpened with an ordinary file or emery stone.

We advise you to determine in advance the nature of the work that you have to perform most often and in large volumes. And only after that, search for the nozzles, attachments and accessories for the drill you need.

Drill bits for cutting sheet materials

Perhaps it is worth highlighting in a separate category special nozzles for a drill, turning it into a unique tool for cutting all kinds of sheet materials. With the help of such a nozzle - scissors and a conventional, even cordless drill, it will be possible to easily cut a metal sheet up to 1.5 mm thick., Metal mesh and thick plastic. The manufacturer is Malco (USA), a whole family of nozzles - scissors is called Turboshear.

Such scissors are able to cut both along the axis of the tool and perpendicular to it, which allows you to cut squares and rectangles. The attachment will work on both a cordless screwdriver and a powerful cordless drill. But do not think that all this will cost a penny. The cost of such nozzles - scissors ranges from 4000 to 7000 rubles.





The capabilities of the grinder can be expanded not only through various nozzles, but also by installing it on special home-made devices. As a result, you can get a cutting machine, with which it becomes possible to accurately cut metal blanks at any angle. In addition, the grinder can be installed on a carriage, and the resulting machine can be used for cutting sheet steel.

In order to understand how to make a cutting machine out of an angle grinder (angle grinder), you can look at various drawings on the Internet. But they will not help much, since all the dimensions of the parts will still have to be selected based on the size of the grinder you have. Options for the execution of devices can be both simple and more complex, requiring the ability to handle a welding machine.

Option 1

To make this device for the grinder, you will need welder skills. So, you need to do the following.

First, cut 2 small pieces from the corner (50x50 mm). Their size is selected based on the dimensions of the gearbox block of your angle grinder.

Next, drill holes in them with a diameter of 14 mm and screw the corners to the angle grinder, as shown in the next photo. If you do not have suitable bolts, then you can use threaded studs M14. Just be careful that the bolts are not too long. Otherwise, in some models of angle grinders, they can cling to the impeller located in the gearbox housing.

Without removing the corners from the grinder, grab them by welding. After that, the corners can be removed and scalded well.

Clean the welds with a grinder grinder.

Then you need to make rotating arm support to which the machine will be attached. To do this, select 2 pipes of such diameters that one can easily enter the other without much effort.

For a more accurate cut, masking tape can be glued to the tubes and draw a line on it.

Then, turning the tube, carefully cut it with an angle grinder. A piece of pipe of a smaller diameter should be shorter by 20 mm (thickness of 2 bearings) - it will serve as a spacer.

Choose 2 bearings suitable for its inner diameter for a thicker pipe. After that, insert a thin tube into a thick one and press the bearings on both sides.

Then insert the stud into the bearings. Be sure to put a washer in front of the nut.

When the swivel mechanism is ready, you need to weld a small piece of the corner to it.

The next step is to swivel stand from the same corner 50x50 mm. To make the segments the same length, the corners can be pulled together with a clamp and cut off.

Also, without unwinding the clamp, they can be drilled immediately.

Attach the drilled corners to the prefabricated swivel block with nuts.

Weld a longer corner to this rack, as shown in the following photos.

Now you need to decide on lever length, on which the angle grinder will be fixed. This is done by selection, based on the dimensions of your grinder. You can lay out the details on the table and calculate the approximate dimensions of the lever, which is best made from 2 pieces of a square profile pipe 20x20 mm.

Pipes must also be clamped with a clamp and cut to the same size.

After all the parts are ready, they can be welded together, as shown in the following photos.

At the next stage, you can attach the angle grinder to the finished structure and check again what came of it.

The ready-made pendulum mechanism for the grinder is easy to install on any flat surface, for example, on the workbench. Also, this design can be installed on a table specially made for it. For a more rigid fastening of the mechanism, small pieces of corners can be welded on both sides of the long corner, and holes drilled in them.

In the following photos you can see how the finished fixture for angle grinders is fixed on the table (in this case, a metal frame is used).

It is very important to set a right angle between the plane of the cutting disc and the plane of the table. Put the square on the table and move it to the abrasive wheel mounted on the angle grinder. If initially you managed to weld the fixture so that the angle between the planes was 90 degrees, then that's good. If you notice a deviation from a right angle in one direction or another, then you can correct the situation with a crowbar or a long profile pipe, for example, 60x20 mm.

To prevent the part from moving when cutting, a corner can be screwed onto the table, which will serve as an emphasis. Also, for an accurate cut, the table can be easily improved with a simple vice made of a nut welded to it and a stud of the required length screwed into it.

Next, you need make a protective cover. It is done taking into account the maximum diameter of the cutting disc, which is permissible to put on a specific model of angle grinder. To make it easier to determine the dimensions of the casing and places for attaching it, you can first make a template, for example, from a piece of cardboard.


In this case, the casing will also serve as a limiter for the cutting tool, which does not allow it to go deep into the table too much during the processing of the part.

It will not be superfluous if for a lever with a grinder attached to it make a spring. In this case, this is easy to do: insert a smaller tube from the back of the rod and attach a spring to it, as shown in the following photo.

On this, the manufacture of a cutting machine with your own hands, in which an angle grinder is used as a drive, can be considered complete.

Option 2

Another version of the fixture for the grinder, with which it will be possible to cut metal blanks, is done as follows.


Thus, a simple cutting machine was obtained. To give additional rigidity to the attachment of the device to the lever, you can use clamps, after laying a wooden block between the angle grinder body and the pipe, for example.

For precise cutting, so that the workpiece does not move, you will need to screw the corner to the table.

For a little grinder a similar version of the device is also suitable, only the angle grinder will be attached to a metal strip: on the one hand, with a bolt to the angle grinder itself, and on the other, with a clamp.

For a powerful angle grinder the fixture is made according to the same principle, but from profiles of a larger size than in the figures above.

It is not necessary to use dumbbells as a counterweight. All you have to do is find the right spring.

Option 3

This fixture option is the simplest for making your own. It is made without a traditional stand (rack) for a rotary unit. All you need is one door canopy, a metal strip and a rubber band (you can use a rubber band from a hand expander).

The construction is done as follows:

  • in the metal strip, on one side, drill holes for the door canopy, and on the other, for the bolt with which the strip will be attached to the grinder;
  • screw the angle grinder and the canopy to the strip;
  • screw the canopy to the table;
  • fasten one end of the elastic to the edge of the table, and the other to the holder (handle) of the angle grinder.

In just a few minutes you will receive a high-quality cutting machine. This device is also mobile, because it can be carried with you in a tool case, and, if necessary, mounted on any flat surface.

When installing this fixture, do not forget to fix a corner on the table to rest the workpiece in it.

Cutting sheet hoist with angle grinder

To cut sheet metal, you will need to purchase special carriage, which moves along the guide (profile square pipe).

But as practice shows, the cost of a good carriage is high (more than $ 100), so you can make it yourself. Since this process is quite difficult to describe, you can understand the manufacturing technology of this slider from this video. With the help of the device, you can cut not only steel, but also ceramic tiles and porcelain stoneware.

Please note that when cutting ceramics, a lot of dust is generated. Therefore, it is recommended to adapt a dust collector with a nozzle for a vacuum cleaner to the casing of the angle grinder.

How to make a homemade dust collector

The simplest dust collector for angle grinders can be made from a plastic bottle from motor oil.

The nozzle is made as follows.


After these simple steps, you can use the grinder to process materials, the cutting of which creates a lot of dust.


Greetings craft lovers. In this manual, we will consider how you can expand the functionality of our trusty tool - grinders. We will turn it into a small but smart electric file. With it, it is very convenient to grind in hard-to-reach places, clean pipes from rust, and so on. You can install a narrow tape and a wide one on the device, depending on the working conditions. Tapes are used from a manual belt grinder, the tape is cut with a clerical knife.

The design of the nozzle is very simple, it can be easily removed and the tape can be easily installed on it. The furniture gas spring 60N is used as a basis, it is she who pulls the tape. All other parts are worth a penny, and you will find most of them in the workshop. Let's take a closer look at how to make such a nozzle!


Materials and tools used

List of materials:
- tape from a manual grinder;
- furniture gas spring 60N;
- square steel pipe;
- round pipe;
- nut (under the axis of the angle grinder);
- two bearings (for the driven roller);
- bolt with nuts and other little things.

List of tools:
- Bulgarian;
- belt sander;
- Bulgarian;
- drill;
- marker;
- caliper;
- pendulum saw;
- vice;
- tap for threading.

Homemade manufacturing process:

Step one. Clamp manufacturing
First of all, we will make a clamp, it will be the basis on which all the details of the device will be fixed. The clamp is installed instead of the grinder shield. To make it, we need a piece of a round pipe of a suitable diameter. We cut it along, and also cut out the grooves depending on the gearbox housing of the grinder. In order for our collar to be clamped, we weld two drilled nuts to it in the place of the longitudinal section. Now the clamp can be tightened with a bolt and nut.

























Step two. Tensioner
As a tensioner, the author used a gas spring from 60N furniture. If there is none, you can pick up a tube, install a spring inside, but of course it’s easier to just buy a furniture gas spring. We unscrew the excess from the spring, we will have threaded axles at the ends. To install the gas spring on the clamp, we weld a steel plate to the clamp, drill a hole in it and cut the thread. Now it remains just to screw the spring to the plate.











Step three. Lead Roller
We proceed to the manufacture of the leading video, the author has a metal one. To make it, you will need a nut and a piece of round pipe. We screw the nut onto the axis of the grinder and turn it on. Next, with the help of another included grinder, we grind the edges of the nut so that it fits snugly into the metal pipe. The author pressed the pipe onto the nut using a vice, additional fastening was not needed, but you can grab it by welding.

Now it remains to set the correct roller profile, it should be as thick as possible in the center and narrow at the edges so that the belt always runs clearly in the center. We turn on the grinder with the roller installed and grind off the excess using a belt grinder. It is more convenient to do this if you draw a thick center line on the roller.

At the end, we process the roller with sandpaper to remove rough bumps. It does not need to be polished, this will reduce the adhesion to the paper.






















Step four. driven roller
At the other end of the gas spring, a driven roller is installed, which consists of two bearings. For bearings, you need to make a bracket, the author makes it from a piece of square pipe. We install bearings on the axis, it can be a bolt or just a steel rod.

On the other hand, we weld a nut to install the part on the spring.








Various power tools are used for household repairs and work at their summer cottage. For them, specialized additional devices and devices are produced, many of which can be made with your own hands. Difficult industrial devices are better to get ready-made, and workbenches, tables, nozzles and almost everything else can be done without the help of others. Handmade devices for power tools can be customized to the required technical conditions.

Classification of devices for power tools

Do-it-yourself power tool accessories are generally classified into the following categories:

  • Tools and nozzles for processing. These are hand-held devices, which include grinding nozzles and bars for grinders, drills.
  • Devices for position modification, installation of a certain cutting angle, drilling and the rest. These are the main surfaces, standards, guides. They will be able to carry out a different external type, often made of metal or wood.
  • Devices for dust extraction. Similar devices are used to remove sawdust, dust formation, and chips from the working plane. It is not so difficult to make such devices with your own hands, as a rule, previously existing fan holes in the equipment are used for mounting.
  • Do-it-yourself grinding nozzles, structures or bars, determined for surface treatment, are assembled. For example, for grinding a wooden surface or cleaning an alloy, it is possible to use a wooden plate with a handle on top. In its working side, sandpaper of the desired grain size is strengthened. The platform model can be anything, it is only important to choose the right abrasive material.

Scheme of the device of the milling table

Devices for power tools happen different, but sometimes they have overall scales, as is the case with milling machines and saws.

It is recommended to choose an improved table that will contain everything, without exception, necessary for comfortable and safe work. The most common type is considered to be a milling table, made in the form of a large board with an opening for the router and a guide board. The scale of the worktop can be different, everything, without exception, depends on what kind of work will be carried out directly. The most ideal view is a table with legs of the required height. And the working and guide boards are made from a chipboard sheet. At the same time, vise, clamps can be taken into account on the surface. It is more correct to make the legs for the table as a whole replaceable, to provide a backup set.

Workbenches for power tools


To work with numerous devices, you will need to improve the workplace. For a home workshop or for a car garage, a small, small-sized and versatile workbench may be necessary. It is not so difficult to make it without the help of others, you just need to specifically make an improvement in your choice for which functions it is needed directly. It is more correct in general to make a workbench that can be used at any height, including on the table.

Then the power tool may become comfortable to have, change its position if necessary. For work, it is recommended to use various hardwoods, maple is considered a common material, which is simply processed, while possessing the required hardness and strength.
For registration on the table, it is possible to attach comfortable legs or clamps to the unit. A workbench requires a vice, they are often used in work, which guarantees an improvement in its quality.

Drill bits

For a drill during operation, you may need various nozzles. They make it possible to simplify the work, make it easier, more comfortable, faster. The drill uses a huge number of homemade products, which numerous manufacturers today have taken as the basis for the study of specialized sets. The list of devices that you can make with your own hands is huge.

Accessories for power tools:


Various devices for power tools are needed in order to make the work most convenient and simple.

It is not always possible to buy such devices, of course, and often they are needed as a whole for a couple of times. For this reason, it is much easier to make them without the help of others, spending not so much time.

Drill attachments, as well as attachments for this power tool, endow it with new functions and the ability to successfully solve various technological problems. Devices for equipping a drill allow it to be used not only for drilling, but also as a power saw, milling cutter, small lathe or even a pump for pumping liquids. Modern manufacturers offer a wide variety of nozzles and attachments that make the drill truly multifunctional.

Of course, nozzles and other devices will not make a drill device comparable in performance and processing accuracy with specialized equipment, but it can be used quite successfully to solve simple technological problems with their help. It is very convenient to use the elements of additional equipment of the drill to solve construction and repair tasks, as well as many other issues related to the maintenance of housing in proper condition.

Varieties of devices for additional equipment of the drill

The most common is a drill attachment such as a stop, which allows you to easily and quickly drill holes to the required depth. The design of the simplest thrust fixture includes an auxiliary handle and the thrust itself, on the surface of which a metric scale is applied.

A more complex design and, accordingly, greater functionality has a parallel stop, with which you can control not only the depth of the hole being made, but also the position of its axis relative to the surface of the workpiece or structure. Attachments of this type are also available for tools used in construction and repair, and for wood drills.

Rip fences, designed for use with construction and repair tools, are mounted on powerful drills, with which they drill holes in concrete and masonry building structures. This type of attachment consists of a stop with a scale and an auxiliary handle for a drill. Some models of rip fences have a built-in suction for removing waste products, which is connected to a vacuum cleaner.

Popular among home craftsmen are drill attachments, with which it can be used to perform carpentry work. A drill equipped with such an attachment is, in fact, a small milling machine. In its design there is a vertical rack with guides along which a special basket with a power tool fixed in it moves. Of course, this one is not able to provide the same accuracy and productivity of the processing performed as specialized equipment, but it is suitable for performing simple work in the home workshop.

A fairly large category among the elements of additional equipment of a hand-held electric tool is nozzles and attachments for a drill, with which you can perform drilling at an angle. Such a device for drilling holes works where it is not possible to use a conventional drill. The working head, depending on the model of this equipment, can be located at different angles (up to 90 °) with respect to the axis of rotation of the main drill chuck. The most popular and in demand are devices for drilling at an angle of 90 degrees.

Devices for drilling holes are widely represented on the modern market, which allow not only to limit the depth of the holes created and control the verticality of their axis, but also to use the drill as a small milling cutter. Such devices are especially popular among home craftsmen who are independently engaged in the manufacture of furniture.

When using various working attachments on a drill for woodworking, you can perform many technological operations (in particular, side drilling of holes in products of a round or more complex configuration, requiring the use of special liners). On some models of such devices, special suction devices are installed, connected to a vacuum cleaner, with the help of which dust and small chips are removed from the processing area. It should be borne in mind that even such functional devices do not allow you to make a full-fledged hand mill from a drill, which has the same operational capabilities, but provides higher accuracy and quality of the processing performed.

Dust extractor for drill



No one will dispute the fact that it is much more convenient to use not a drill, but a drilling machine to form holes (and the accuracy of processing using stationary equipment is higher). Meanwhile, it is also possible from a hand-held power tool, for which it is used. Most modern models of such a device are equipped with a vise for fixing the part during processing, as well as a bed along which such a vise can move freely. The power tool itself is placed in a special drill holder (basket), which is a universal clamping device and can be used for almost any model of drilling tool. Such a device, on the rack of which an accurate metric scale is applied, is a very useful acquisition for any home craftsman, as it allows you to make holes with less labor and higher accuracy.

Attachments to the drill are very popular, allowing it to be used as a wood lathe. Such equipment is fixed on the desktop, and the drill itself acts as its drive mechanism. To install the drill in the design of such a prefix, a special stand and a mounting mechanism are used.

Such consoles are available in various designs, with a different set of cutting tools and fixtures, and make it easy for many home craftsmen to realize the dream of having their own lathe at their disposal. Of course, a lathe driven by a conventional electric drill cannot be compared with specialized equipment either in terms of service life or in terms of accuracy and productivity of the processing performed. If you use such an attachment in intensive mode, the electric drill will not withstand significant and prolonged loads and will eventually fail. That is why, in order not to be left without a drill, such an attachment should be used to perform simple and not too long turning woodwork.

The most popular drill attachments include attachments that allow you to turn such a tool into an electric sharpener or emery. With their installation, there are no difficulties even for inexperienced craftsmen. Such attachments can be used not only for sharpening knives and circular saw blades, but also for restoring the geometric parameters of drills, turning tools, chisels and planer knives. Thus, using such devices on a sharpening drill, you can not only solve many household issues with their help, but save on contacting qualified specialists. Even those who do not have experience in this field can successfully use such emery, including for sharpening cutting tools.

Additional equipment for a drill is necessary not only for home craftsmen, but also for professional furniture makers. Such equipment, in particular, includes a milling attachment, with which grooves are made in joinery and furniture elements to create corner joints. When using such an attachment, there is no need to fix the workpieces in the clamping device. It provides high processing accuracy, and special adjusting elements are provided in its equipment to create a groove of the required width and depth.

In order to effectively use the tools driven by the drill even in the most inaccessible places, you can purchase a flexible drive or an angle adapter.

The flexible drive and the angled nozzle on the drill are fixed at one end in the drill chuck. Their second end is equipped with a clamping device in which drilling, milling, abrasive and any other tool with a shank of a suitable diameter can be fixed. When choosing between two such devices, it should be borne in mind that the flexible drive has more possibilities in terms of processing hard-to-reach places than the angled nozzle for a drill. The bending angle of such a drive is not limited to 90°, it can be any.

Application examples for angled nozzles


The question of whether it is possible to use an electric drill as a pump drive for pumping liquids is not without meaning. In order to practically solve such a problem, you can not come up with various homemade products, do not rack your brains over making a reliable mount for a drill on a typical pump housing and over which adapter to use. All these issues have already been thought out by specialists and implemented in the design of the attachment-pump.

Such a pump for a drill, although not intended for long-term and intensive use, is able to effectively solve many problems. In particular, it can successfully pump small volumes of both viscous liquids (such as oil or paint) as well as ordinary water. To change the pumping speed of a liquid medium, it is enough to change the number of revolutions made by the drill chuck. Since drill pump housings are usually made of plastic, they do not have a long service life, but this disadvantage is compensated by the low cost of such devices.

Electric drills are often used in combination with special templates, which not only increase the accuracy of drilling and further assembly, but also significantly speed up the processing process. Templates for professionals are made of metal, retain their geometric parameters for a long time. For home use, you can purchase an inexpensive plastic template, which, although not as durable as their metal counterpart, provides high precision machining.

The meaning of drilling templates lies in the fact that their design includes the sizes and arrangement of holes most often performed in elements of furniture structures. So, there are templates designed for drilling holes for fixing furniture hinges, inserting locks and installing furniture ties. In such templates, not only the distance between the holes being made is precisely maintained, but also the distance at which such holes should be located from the edge of the workpiece.

Types of nozzles for drills

The nozzles used with drills are also used to expand the functionality of the latter. This includes, in particular, a range of drill bits for cutting sheet metal. Such nozzles for a metal cutting drill can work as punching or nibbling scissors. Even when used with a conventional drill or screwdriver, they show high efficiency. For example, such an attachment for a cutting drill is able to cope with a metal sheet up to 1.5 mm thick, a mesh made of metal, and thick plastic.

In most cases, it is better to use a drill attachment for cutting metal, rather than a manual or electric jigsaw. This is explained by the fact that the jigsaw, like many other devices with which you can cut sheet metal, contribute to intense heating of the processing zone. This may cause the protective coating applied to the surface of the sheet to burn off. Among the most popular drill bits used for cutting sheet metal are devices called "Cricket" and "Steel Beaver", as well as devices that look like metal shears, but are powered by a drill or screwdriver.

Among home craftsmen, as well as those who are professionally engaged in car body repair, grinding and polishing nozzles for drills are very popular. The working body that such grinding attachments are equipped with can be a drum with sandpaper glued to its surface, as well as a felt or felt disk.

The material through which the nozzle on the drill for grinding will be in contact with the surface to be treated is selected depending on the nature of the technological task. So, a grinding tool, with which coarser processing is performed, is often made of an abrasive material of the appropriate grain size, and felt or felt is glued onto the polishing material. As a polishing tool, a brush attachment is also used, which is installed in the drill chuck using its shank.

The nozzle for a car polishing drill can be used not only after a body repair has been completed, but also in cases where the owner of the vehicle wants to give it a pristine shining look. If you want to save on the purchase of grinding nozzles for a drill, you can make such a device with your own hands. For this, a home-made wooden drum is suitable, in the central part of which it is necessary to securely fix the shank. With the help of this structural element, such a device will be fixed in the drill chuck. Grinding and polishing with a drill using such a drum can be carried out using materials such as sandpaper, felt and felt.

The nozzles for power tools used for cleaning products from various materials work on a similar principle. So, for cleaning metal products, metal and abrasive nozzles, as well as a brush nozzle, can be used. The brush is made of metal wire and allows you to effectively clean the surface of the product from dirt, rust and remnants of the old paintwork. The brush itself, which is equipped with such nozzles, can be located on the end or side of the device (it all depends on the tasks to be solved). Similar nozzles also differ in the material from which the brush is made. Such materials, in particular, can be polymer fibers or metal wire.

Using the mortar attachment, you can turn an ordinary drill into an efficient construction mixer. The kneading of building and finishing mixtures, which is carried out with the help of a mixer nozzle for a drill, is carried out not only quickly, but also with high quality. It is only important not to exceed the volume of the mixed mixture, so as not to reduce the efficiency of using such a device.

Speaking of what can be done with the help of additional equipment used complete with a hand-held electric tool, we should also mention the riveting nozzle on the drill. The tool on which such a nozzle is installed must have a reverse function, and the rivet fixed with such a device can only be of the pull type.