How to Use a Power Drill

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Nigel Gregory with Blue Griffin Handyman. Today we're going to show you how to use a power drill. Now when using any sort of power equipment you always want to use your safety gear. Good eye-protection and ear-protection is important. Now when using a power drill depending on your model, this is a corded model. But some of them are now battery-powered. You get your drill bit. There's different typed of drill bits for different applications. These are primarily for wood, but you can get them to drill into metal or plastics even, but you want to select the right size of bit for your job. And insert it into the end of the drill, and this is a chuck. This is what they call a chuck. And some of them are key-less like this one. And so you can tighten it by hand like so, or you can turn it the right direction on the switch of the drill and do it with the trigger. Make sure it's nice and locked. Then you want to make your mark of where you want to put the drill, the hole, then you place the drill on there very carefully and you make sure you want to do it kind of slow at first. So that you can get the bit to bite the wood. Slowly put it on, once you have it right where you want it you let it rip. And that's how you use a power drill."