First, thank you @neophyte. Your response was great. The big thing I need was the 3/8 x 24 thread. Between that and "right-handed" at least gets me the chucks that will "mechanically" connect. The heads up on the 13mm(1/2) vs the more standard 3/8" capacity is appreciated also. Thank you so much for the time you had to have spent on that reply.
My next question I don't think you can help, "how much do I spend on a 20+-year-old drill, that with my luck, as soon as I put the new chuck on the drill motor will die.
I thought of that. Just that I haven't needed one in all my life. It's a good way to help me justify it to myself.
I pulled the trigger on a
Rohm 666574 Key-Type Drill Chuck. I was scrolling through "other vendors" on Amazon and found this "used" one for $15. Going under the assumption "if it too good to be true, then it probably is"...
I just paid $15 to figure out what the catch is.
I expect to get a message telling me that they can't fulfill the order. Oh, and BTW, it was with Prime Shipping deal.
Since I don't speak Spanish, the fine print probably says, "just an empty box"
Most corded drills seem to be made in China now, and the quality may not be what it used to be.
Metabo still makes some drills in Germany, as does Fein.
Makita may still make some of there corded drills in Japan.
I think Hilti shifted their production to China to a factory shared with Panasonic, although the quality is supposedly still good.
If the Perles drill has lasted till now, it was probably very well made, and might be worth overhauling rather that replacing if anything goes wrong.
As far as the chuck goes,
Better Fein drills usually come with the Rohm Supra SK chucks, but the drills can cost $300-$400 a piece.
The better Metabo hammer drills come with the Futuro Top chucks.
The chucks like the Rohm Extra80-RV chucks are standard in many cases on “professional” drills from Europe, like Milwaukee and Bosch.
Milwaukee used to, and may still use Yukowa chucks, and least for the past several decades.
Replacement cost for the Milwaukee keyless chucks has always been 40%-50% of the cost of the drills from what I recall.
As for chucks, you can always remove them and use them on other drills, or sell them to someone on Ebay, as has been mentioned above.
Perles was supposedly the company that did the manufacturing on the “Swiss Made” Elu tools, and Elu was considered one of Europes top power hand tool manufacturers.
The manufacturer is still around as Hidria Perles, and may still manufacture tools for Black & Decker/Dewalt, who purchased Elu and rebranded a bunch of the tools to Dewalt( like the DW625 plunge router)
As far as keyed chucks go,
Metabo or Jacobs or Yukiwa or Rohm are probably fine.
Most people probably want keyless chucks, so the keyed chucks can toutinely be found at decent prices.
As far as I’m aware, no power hand tool manufacturer uses ball bearing keyed chucks as standard on their hand tools, and that would be the step up in quality.
I think Rohm is the most readily available 3/8-24 chuck with a 1/2” capacity at the moment.
