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Folks, I know I read on some post, that I cant find now, that people were having an issue with the clam plate breaking triggers on some drills. Does anyone know where that post is or what you have to do to remedy the situation. My Rigid drill is coming soon and before I mount it I would like to know so I don't break the thing first time out. Thanks
I think its just the ryobi p251 that has that issue. Its trigger assembly is made weird and can flex when only pressed from the rear of the trigger like the clam plate does.
Yea I too saw a post where a guy broke the trigger on his drill I believe in his case it was a Milwuakee drill and as scratcher stated he had it in lock mode. With the leverage you have with the plate if you lock the trigger you will run a risk of breaking it on any drill. Pull the battery instead of locking the trigger. I believe I DrSpeckler mounted the trigger in the rear slot to overcome the issue of pressing the switch for the light on the Rigid drill if I remember another thread correctly. I also have a Rigid drill the 725 inlb so a little different drill but had the same light issue. I used a short about 1" long piece of 3/4" heater hose between the ubolt and drill handle and was able to use the front slot for the trigger asm and the rear slot to hold the drill without turning on the light. Not saying it's better than the way Doc has his just another way to do it. Heck it's a different model drill might not work on his. I have the front lip of the drill chuck 1" above the plate surface. With the trigger linkage as short as I could adjust it I was able get it to center pretty well on the drill trigger. Since the plate is a universal product for any drill you throw on it you just have to keep adjusting until you're happy with the results.
I don't see where people are having issues with installing the Octane on the Clam Plate. I thought it when on pretty smoothly. I did not have to use the same slot that the drill mounts to.
Don't get married to that Clam plate. When I was running my M18 Fuel last year on a Clam plate , it worked great and enabled me to control the torque on that drill. This year I got an Octane so I could keep the Fuel in the shop. Had nothing with problems with the wobble and alignment between the Octane drill and the Clam plate. So I took everything apart and put it back together with a Kovac adaptor and life is sweet again. Mounted the drill extension handle opposite the trigger handle and it spins my 7" Nero auger effortlessly.