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SoCalRailFan
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Jun 19, 2015

Using a drill to lift your popup

So recently I bought one of those special sockets to adapt to a 3/8" drill extension for lifting my popup, because I'm getting lazy. After lifting the popup 2 times my drill burned out. I'm stumped. I used a Craftsman 6 amp big ass drill. It lifted the trailer fine, but when I went to lower it it was dead as can be.

What are some of you using to lift your popups?
  • Dewalt shows that as having a 1/4" connector too, how do you use that?

    rwbradley wrote:
    Get a Cordless Impact driver. It looks just like a cordless drill but it has way more torque. I got a Dewalt DCF885B for a little over $100. It is really small so it is easy to stow but has serious power compared to a drill.
  • I have a Porter Cable pcc641, but I'm having a hard time finding it's specs, weird. Then the just is only like a 1/4 thing.
  • Let me check, I just bought a cordless drill and it came with a impact driver. Let me find it and reply with what it is to see if it's good enough or not.
  • Get a Cordless Impact driver. It looks just like a cordless drill but it has way more torque. I got a Dewalt DCF885B for a little over $100. It is really small so it is easy to stow but has serious power compared to a drill.
  • You need a high torque cordless drill with at least 400 pounds of torque, it should have a high & low setting. Use the low speed (high torque) mode when lifting or lowering. The DeWalt, Hitahci and Craftsman 18 to 19.2 volt drills seem to be very popular. I used one years ago with my pop up and made my own Socket Gennie from an old spark plug socket.