12 Volt drill.Not cordless!

Hook 2 wires to the battery terminals on the drill, with the engine running you should have about 14.4 volts, plug into anderson plug and the drill will work fine.

Cheers Ross.

I have fitted one of my old 14.4 volt drills with a lead and an Anderson plug. The lead is about 3 metres of 8BS cable and as I have Anderson plugs front and rear of the Fourby and front and rear of the camper this allow me to reach almost anywhere I am likely to need to drill a hole. I thought that the lower voltage may be a bit of a problem but seems to work ok for me. It has also be used by others and did the job.

At the local recycling yard I picked up a 12v drill minus battery.
I simply connected a lead to the battery terminals in the handle and cut off the battery cradle.
I have an extension lead that I can use for the solar and it doubles up as a drill extension lead as well.

I also use the drill on low speed to raise or lower the van legs.

Too easy.

This is damn wonderful idea! I have few cordless drill at home that sitting in draw because lack of batteries (as OT noted sometimes battery more expense then drill). So I just will make an adapter and will have in-bush drill! Thanks for hint.

To OT problem:

You did not tell us what battery capacity your using. If it is "light" battery (common for el-chepo stuff) then there is no wonder that it cannot perform. You still can get battery relatively cheap - ebay is your friend. Or you can make own super size pack. Just be aware - cheap chanize sells that claim to be 5000mah actually at the best do 500mah. Get Panasonic or Sanyo ones.

You can get inverter to charge your drill relatively easy.

Why do not make permanent installation using light-duty winch? They not that expensive - definitely on par with good drill.

Find old drill - 12V NiCad is preferable one, you can get one cheap enough without battery on garage sale on from CashConverter - and permanently wire it to cord.

Good Luck!

I just bought a 12v Milwaukee to run off my battery but have not yet hooked it up.

rob

I cut a dead battery open then discarded the cells drilled a hole for wire and soldered to the terminals with an anderson plug on the end then filled the empty case with builders bog and stuck the bottom on that I had sawn off. I use my solar panel cable as a lead.
The lead also doubles to fire up the compressor as well. It has andersons on both ends

Ryobi One plus (or the other way round) has a charger powered from 12v ciggy socket if you are in the market for a new drill etc.

What a wonderful response to my query.I shall try a trick or two and see how I get on...Thank you all Murranji

My husband tried out a cheap 12v drill for loading/unloading our boat (Rhino side loader) and had the same problem however since buying a better quality Hitachi brand drill, has no problems with battery running flat.
In between uses we either charge the battery using a 150w. inverter when away from power or wait until we are in a powered site.
(The inverter can be plugged into the vehicle 12v point/cigarette lighter and charging can happen when travelling if you dont have any 12v points elsewhere.)
However I realise this is not a cheap option - just thought i would let you know what works for us.

regards,
Heather

Taking the chance of sounding moronic, would a battery drill connected to a 12 volt car battery be powerful enough to turn a small propeller for pushing a tinnie or kayak around in calm wate?.
A bracket to hang over the back of the boat would be pretty simple to knock up, and the all purpose drill could add marine propulsion to it's list of uses. Hook up two drills for twin engines....... nah, probably not.