Air Drills

[cjarvis]

Does anyone use these much anymore? I have a CP788HR that I think I might sell, but I don’t know if there’s even a market for them with the advent of today’s crop of cordless tools.

 

[cvairwerks]

All the time...Haven't found an electric or battery powered one yet that will turn over 2500 rpm...

 

[Walkers]

Mine have sat collecting dust for years. My others donkt turn as far, but also don’t stall out if a gnat lands on them.

 

[ItsNemo]

I've got a small Ingersoll Rand one...pretty rare that I pull it out, but is handy every now and then.

 

[cjarvis]

I haven't used mine in more than 20 years, and I didn't use it often when I bought it. It's a Chicago Pneumatic CP788HR and only turns 800 RPM, max.

 

[Neggy]

In the body shop, if I was drilling out hundreds of spot welds to remove panels, an electric would not cut it.

Air and lots of it

 

[Iridium rand]

Bought one for like 20$ from HF to see if it was something I would invest in further, turns out that one was pretty damn good and didn’t need to. They seem to be more for the machine shop setting where you’re always in one place and need to drill a lot of holes at a time, that’s where the advantages outweigh needing an air hose and compressor attached to it

they’re much smaller, usually more powerful, stop as soon as you let go of the trigger and have near infinite runtime (actually gets cold instead of hot which is nice) as a result of no electric motor to burn out/overheat or batteries to die. Also like most air tools they last forever and are never obsolete. Only other cons than the obvious are they can be pretty loud and sometimes spray an oil mist