Thread: Chuck key holder

I like it

Now that is a great idea

I've always just left it sitting in the sliding vice all this time (as my Dad did before me) and it's never disappeared yet - but might one day, I'm going to borrow that one.

Great cupboard Ian,
And very good solution to the always missing chuck-keys.
I've use an old large speaker magnet on the front of the pulley cover.
Cheers, Crowie

Originally Posted by crowie

...I've use an old large speaker magnet on the front of the pulley cover.
Cheers, Crowie

An equally good or better solution Crowie, particularly when you are actually working at the drill. But how do you prevent a magnet from picking up loads of swarf - or don't you ever drill steel?

Cheers,

G'Day Ian,
It quite a strong magnet that stays up high on the pulley cover.
It's about 3" dia with a 1" hole which is the right size to locate the gear on the key.
It's way out of the road of the chuck and the drill table.
Cheers, Crowie

Great idea Ian! Its these always simple, overlooked cool solutions I love.

Nathan.

I also use them for screwdrivers and similarly shaped objects, not just tools, but pretty much anything that you push in / pull out from the front without needing to find a hole.

I have a rare earth magnet, from an old computer hard drive, glued to the top of the pulley cover that holds my chuck key.
It's so strong that you can almost throw the key toward the magnet and it grabs it.

My solution of not losing the chuck key is to hang it on a piece of chain on the side of the drill press and on the other side I have another chain that holds the drift wedge to remove the chuck from the quill.

Originally Posted by IanW

An equally good or better solution Crowie, particularly when you are actually working at the drill. But how do you prevent a magnet from picking up loads of swarf - or don't you ever drill steel?

Cheers,

I do the old large speaker magnet thing on the side of the upper section of the drill press

Pete

Nice idea.

Neat idea

My drill press came with a little spring clip on the side of it (slightly hidden) for holding the chuck key, which I never seem to use. One fine morning in the shed I was hunting for the stupid thing for ages... finally found it in it's holder

at least with your one you can see if it's in there straight away.

Cheers,
Dave

Originally Posted by Ozkaban

.......at least with your one you can see if it's in there straight away.

Yep - that was precisely the idea, Dave. I discovered quite a while ago (but long after I should have! ) that having an obvious place for everything is a necessity for me. My tool drawers & hanging spaces have holders & cutouts to match the tools that should be there. I don't know how many times I have spotted an empty space where something should be whilst cleaning up at the end of the day & found it in the shavings. If it hadn't been for that empty spot shouting at me, it might have gone to the compost pile, or worse...

Living in a small shed encourages me to put things back in their place as soon as I finish with them, but lots of tools are needed over & over, so the clutter still mounts on benctops & any other flat surface as the day goes on. My last 'shed' was a work area a quarter of the size of my current space, and I was a lot more careful, there. Having more space seems to encourage more sloppy work habits - I'm trying to re-train myself.

Cheers,