How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

Click to expand...

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

Click to expand...

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

Click to expand...

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

Click to expand...

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

Click to expand...

LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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... just make your own cell pack to put back in there…

- BlueRidgeDog

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Alex
Have you still got a spare Triton battery pack available? ....
- robscastle

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.... until it got to 3D printing battery sockets….

- metolius

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... awesome drill…

- NormG

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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oh my god you ausie s drive me to drink.just throw that worn out old crap in the trash…

- pottz

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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.....You could just as "easily" (he says without trying) heat up a 25mm PVC pipe offcut), shape it as a….. hell, might even try that myself next tim…..

- LittleBlackDuck

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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LittleBlackDuck said:

How I rescued my Portable Drill Press

Boys and Girls,

One of the best drills I owned in the past was this Triton drill.

However, it goes back to the days when men weren't pansies and had the fortitude of lifting up a heavy cordless drill in one hand. While every time I picked it up, I got a better workout than competing in a triathlon, the battery started to develop an inferiority complex…

Though after 12 or so years I'm not surprised, it'd be cheaper to send the missus of for a boob job (both of them) rather than repack the 2 Triton batteries. While I was still in Melbourne (about 9 year ago) it cost me about $80 each to have them repacked… recently I was quoted $200+ per kick starter and as the batteries haven't been available for over 8 years the boob job seemed more economic.

Now you all might ask what's so special about this compact "exerciser" equipment? Well I hear ya… while it weighed well over 3Kg (with the battery), it had its own built in drill press.

To all you smarties that can drill a stand alone vertical hole using a hand held drill… I congratulate you, however even using the mirror trick,

I still get greater angles than with a badly tuned compound mitre saw.

Yes there are "stand alone" drill press simulator attachments…

with a keyed chuck to boot… keys?… for goodness sake, I'm led to believe that even chastity belts don't use a key anymore!... and I'd rather struggle up some stairs with the recalcitrant hose of a vacuum cleaner, the cord wrapped around my feet and the dog jumping up and down on me, than trying to embrace one of those BS gizmos… I needed 3 shaves between starting to mount, drill and dismount the drill (and my beard still hasn't matured into a fast growth).

Now I had a shizen load of Ryobi batteries that just refused to slip into the Triton's orifice no matter how hard I tried and even the threat of a sex change refused co-opreation. Not being a vegetarian, I asked my local sparkie if he had any thought of retro fitting a Ryobi battery to the Triton.

Well… the first take of connecting rods with a couple of rolls of duct tape was a total failure (forgot to take a picture)… fortunately the battery was already cactus so dropping it on concrete didn't adversely affect it's life expectancy. I then mentioned that as I only want to use the Triton as a one trick pony, just to drill vertical holes away from my normal drill press (and not have to shovel up the pony's manure).

I suggested that maybe the Ryobi battery could simply be connected to the Triton drill by some cable. As the demand was "one off" job(s), I could handle the battery sitting on the bench and setting up the drill separately for the plunge operation.

He gutted one of the Triton batteries and soldered some wires to the terminals inside the battery pack's neck.

He then soldered some of these type of terminal connectors

to the other end of the cable so that somehow they could be gaffer taped to the Ryobi terminals.
Hell that's too much work (the taping) and as I had some Ryobi battery storage mounts,

decided to 3D print one so that the terminals could be slipped in the gap, from underneath the mount, for circuit contact.

Now there is an order in which the terminal connection has to be made… one config worked, while swapping the wires did diddly squat. Now being colour blind, I couldn't tell the difference between the blue and brown wires so I used some dymo labels to ensure correct order for the manual fittings…

hey I'm not stupid… the dymo tape was black and white!
It was then that my sparkie informed me that the Triton was orange in colour and not the green I insisted it was…
Just kidding about colour blind… after all I can recognise red vino.

Now this still required some manual intervention and no longer having to lift that heavy drill/battery I was not eager to get any alternative exercise by additional wiring manipulation.

I superglued the terminals to the mounting block and after taking 1 hour to separate my fingers, I decided to try using hot glue instead. Now the hot glue melted the 3D printed mount, however, it turned out that I managed to get a more than satisfactory bond… for both terminals,

I then filled up the batter pack's neck cavity with hot glue to ensure that I didn't accidentally break the soldered connection as all my past soldering endevours sucked.

Reassembled the Ryobi battery pack and attached the cables via the 3D printed mounting plate to the Ryobi battery,

Now I again have my portable stand-alone drill press,

Not only that, it has a "stilt" attachment for those longer spade bit… bloody clever these Aussies (Triton range of products was an Aussie inovation)…

Hell, I could use this method to resurrect all my old battery operated items.
Maybe I could resurrect my old drinking bear toy,

So I won't have to drink vino by myself… with 18V instead of the original 6V, it'll be able to keep up!

If you weren't inspired by reading the above, tough, as I didn't make a video to save you the hassle of reading.

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..... but mine are permament…..
- robscastle

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Torch no 2 I will use to find stuff in the bedroom.
- robscastle

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