![]() ![]() If a screw/fastener can’t be driven in all the way with the normal torque settings, you can switch to the drill setting just to give it a little nip but be very careful. ![]() ![]() This setting can be used on all materials from wood, metal and soft brickĭon’t use this setting to drive screws or fasteners because it could potentially ruin the screw, damage the material and worst hurt your wrist if it snags. This setting is used when a hole needs to be drilled, this eliminates the involvement of the torque settings, giving you the drills full torque and power to help you drill a hole. Other than the numbers on the drills spindle, you will see a symbol that looks like a drill piece, and a symbol shaped like a hammer. Grab yourself a scrap piece of wood and some screws and have a go yourself, it is satisfying to know YOUR in control of your drill. This gives me piece of mind that the screw and the material won’t get damaged, and I won’t worry if I hold the trigger any longer than usual. Now the drill is ready for all the other screws that are going into the same material. This time I will go up in two’s until the drill finally drives the screw in flush with the material and the torque setting guard kicks in again to stop it going any further. If it hasn’t I then adjust the torque setting again, going for a higher number. Once torque setting 3 stops the drills chuck from spinning, I will visually see if the screw has gone all the way in. So torque setting 3 is usually my starting point. I don’t start on 1 because it usually kicks in straight away before the screw turns. I will set the drill to torque setting 3 and start driving the screw into the material. How I do this, is whatever I’m driving a screw into, the first screw will determine the setting I need. Nobody is a torque setting physic! and we don’t immediately know which number torque setting we need just by looking at a piece of wood. I use torque settings when I’m building furniture, erecting a fence, fixing drywall/plasterboard, hanging doors and whenever I’m fixing anything to a soft material (chipboard, MDF, ply). How To Use The Torque Settings On a Drill You don’t need to know the actual torque figures for each number.Īll you need to know is that the higher the number on the spindle, the more driving force the drill has. The torque spindle will cause the drills chuck to slip, and again make the clicking noise until you release the trigger.Īgain this has protected the screw and the material your driving into. The higher the torque setting number the more drive the drill has, until the required torque for this number has been reached. This noise is the torque setting doing its job.Įach torque setting acts like a guard to stop screw heads or materials your driving into becoming damaged. ![]()
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