24 Super Useful Power Drill Attachments And Accessories You Should Know

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On its own, the power drill is a very useful tool you can use for carrying out different types of projects whether you’re a woodworker, a mechanic, an electrician or even a plumber.

However, combining a few drill accessories with it can help upgrade it and get even more uses out of it.

With these accessories and a few tips, you can transform and upgrade your power drill, allowing you to carry out tasks that might not have think possible to do with it.

No matter the kind of project you’re trying to carry out, if you have the right accessories for your power drill, you’ll use it almost anywhere from loosening different sizes of nuts to even cutting metal sheets.

With that said, here are the 10 best drill accessories I’ve found to be very useful for projects at home and in the workshop.

Milescraft Drill Pump

This drill pump is one of the best power drill attachment you can get for your projects. You can use it to drain a small pond, a fish tank or any flooded area you want to pump water from.

It’s not a very powerful pump though. To me it’s more like an emergency pump you can use for small projects where you don’t need to get a big water pump.

As long as you have your power drill with you, you can operate this pump anywhere, in a boat or even when you’re camping outdoors, because it’s very portable.

All you need is a power drill to operate it.

Drill Bit Extension Set

Sometimes while working with your power drill, you find out your drill bits are not long enough to reach are particular area or spot you want to work on.

When that happens, you don’t go looking for longer bits. Instead, you get a drill bit extension set like the one shown above.

Garden Auger Bit

With this garden auger bit, your power drill or cordless drill can serve as a very useful gardening tool for you.

Whether you want to install fences or plant seeds, bulbs and flowerbeds, this garden auger bit will enable you to drill as many holes as you like in a fraction of the time.

You don’t have to buy a complete auger machine, especially if you’re operating a very small garden.

Screwdriver Bit Set

I believe getting a screwdriver bit set is one of the smartest investments you’re going to make after getting your cordless drill, especially if you don’t already have an electric screwdriver.

When you get a complete bit set, you have every type of bit you need to drive all types of screws into different materials.

Although most of these bit sets work best with an impact driver. But if you’re not drilling or driving screws into any hard material, a regular power drill is all you need with these screw driving bit attachment.

Impact Socket Adapter

An impact socket adapter attachment enables you connect your regular power drill to a socket wrench, so that you can use it to loosen or tighten lug nuts and bolts.

Although this may not be a solution for nuts that are really stuck in place, like rusted nuts and bolts in abandoned machinery.

For that, you need an impact wrench, which is a completely different tool. With an impact wrench, you don’t need this socket adapter.

Metal Shear Drill Attachment

This metal shear drill attachment from Dewalt is designed to attach to any power drill, and can cut up to 18 gauge in thickness.

You can cut different types of metal materials with it including sheet metal, wires, steel mesh, asphalt shingles, plastic sheets and so on.

This is a very important attachment you should have, especially if you have a Dewalt power drill.

Steel Wire Brush Set

This drill attachment will come in handy for a whole lots of applications. You can use it to remove rust, old paint, spatter, weld slags, and you can even use it for deburring metal and paint.

Drain Auger

A drain auger or drain snake another important attachment you should get for your power drill. You never know when your drain is going to get clogged and you need to fix it.

The auger can be turned with your hand, but for heavily clogged drains, there’s a provision for you to attach your power drill, allowing you to spin it with more speed and force to clear the drain.

Drill Belt Clip

Most cordless drills come with a clip so that you can attach the drill to your work belt or tool vest securely, freeing up your hand to perform other tasks and keep the drill handy whenever you need it again.

Some drills however don’t come with this clip, and the clips that come with some are really not that effective.

The clip shown above however is a very good one to get. Sometimes you need to climb a ladder and take your drill or other tools with you. You need your hands free to climb the ladder properly.

That’s why a tool clip like this is very important. It’s not just for drills. It works with other cordless tools as well, allowing you to clip them on to your toolbelt and free up your hand until you need the tool again.

Hand Mixer / Egg Beater Attachment

This is a 3 in one hand mixer / egg beater attachment you can attach to your cordless drill for whipping egg, cake, dough and other food mixtures at home.

No need to buy a separate electric mixer tool when you already have a working power drill at home. Just get this mixer attachment instead.

Ratchet Strap Roller Attachment

This is an ideal attachment for you if you’re a trucker, a mover or you’re involved in any other kind of jobs or projects where you have to deal with straps every day.

You leave this strap lying around without neatly rolling them up, they’re going to get tangled, and cause clutter all over the place.

Just connect this strap roller attachment to your cordless drill, and you can roll up those straps neatly and store them properly when they’re not in use.

Dewalt FlexTorq Right Angle Drill Adaptor System

The FlexTorq right angle drill adaptor system from Dewalt is a one of a kind attachment you can attach to your power drill in 4 different ways.

It separated in 3 different points, that’s why it can be used in 4 different ways. It can be used as a compact right angle attachment, standard right angle attachment, a flexible right angle shaft, and a straight flexible shaft.

Drill Bit Depth Stop

If you want to drill hole to a precise depth without exceeding that depth, then you need this attachment.

Just attach it to the bit you’re using at the correct depth you don’t want to exceed and tighten with an allen wrench.

Epoxy Mixer Paddles

If you want to mix small quantities of epoxy for your projects, you can do it by hand, but that will take a long time, and the epoxy may not even mix uniformly.

A mixing paddle like the one shown above makes everything much easier, and makes the mixture very uniform.

Just connect it to a power drill, and let it rip.

Buffing Pads

Connect these buffing pads to your power drill and you can use them to buff out swirl marks or any other scratches from whatever surface you want to remove the scratches from.

They’re best used with angle grinders and polishers, but if you don’t have those, you can use any power drill you have, as long as you can hold it flat against the surface you’re polishing.

Universal wrench

Loosen and tighten any type of nut or bolt with this universal socket wrench. Even broken and stripped nuts can be loosened with it.

It conforms to any nut or bolt shape you fit it to. In fact, you can loose anything with it provided it fits into the wrench.

You no longer have to search and switch between different sockets to find a suitable one. Just get one of this universal socket, and you’re good to go.

Your DIY projects will go a whole lot smoother and you’ll carry out projects easily without the frustration of carrying around a whole set of wrenches of different sizes or forgetting a particular wrench in the workshop.

All you need is a power drill and this universal socket.

It’s made with chrome vanadium steel, hence it’s super strong and will not wear out easily.

Double headed sheet metal nibbler / metal cutter

Cut through any 14 gauge sheet material with ease using your power drill and this sheet metal nibbler. You can cut with precision through sheet metal, powder coated material, stainless steel, pipes, copper, aluminum, fiberglass, plastic and formica with this metal cutting bit.

It doesn’t matter the shape you want to cut. It cuts smoothly and precisely. All you need is a power drill and the metal cutter/nibbler, and you’re ready to make any type of cut with great precision.

It’s one drill accessory you’ll never get tired of using if you work with sheet metal, and you’ll always find many applications for it, whether you’re woodworker, autoworker, DIYer or a handyman.

Flip Drive

This accessories allows you to quickly change between drilling of holes and driving of screws within seconds.

With the time saved, you can do more and complete jobs faster. It’s a must have drill accessory if you really want to do more with your power drill.

Dewalt right angle flex shaft

Ever needed to drill a hole or drive a screw in a very awkward position? This Dewalt DWARAFS right angled flex shaft allows you to do that easily.

You can drill holes and drive screws with your drill in tight hard to reach spaced easily. Just attach your drill bit to the flex shaft and attach the flex shaft to your power drill, and get to work.

The head of the flex shaft is magnetic, which helps to hold your fasteners securely and align them perfectly.

If you need something a little bit more straightforward, you can always go for a portable right angled drill that will also help you drill holes and drive screws at right angles, allowing you to reach tight awkward spaces that your regular power drill will not allow you to reach.

Drill brush

Do your cleaning and scrubbing in the kitchen in a fraction of the regular time with this drill brush and scrubber bit.

Just attach this brush and scrubber bit to your cordless drill, and you’ll get everything back to sparkling new in your home with less elbow grease.

It’s one of the best cordless drill accessories every homeowner surely needs for cleaning.

Bighorn sanding drum set

Attach these to your drill and you can sand those rough curved edges to maximum smoothness. If you don’t have an oscillating spindle sander, you can just go for this.

It’s a set, so there’re different sizes of sanding drum inside you can use to sand any type of curve you want to sand.

Drillmate drilling guide

This drillmate drilling guide will help you align your drill and make straight or angled holes along the edge of your board.

You can make angled cuts from 45 to 90 degrees with this drill guide. It has a built-in angle read out which you can use to read and drill through your board at any angle of your choosing.

This is one milescraft product you definitely need to have if you work with a cordless drill, especially when drill holes on doors for key or door knob installation.

Paint and mud mixer

Try mixing a large quantity of paint with just your hand and you’ll never try it again because of the difficulty.

If you can’t afford a paint mixing machine, just get this paint and mud mixing bit and pair it with your cordless drill.

With a drill accessories like this one, you have a power hand mixer you can use at the press of a button without tiring yourself out.

Sanding disc pad kit

One of the best tool for sanding and polishing is a random orbital sander. But if you don’t have one of those, there’s no need to fret.

This sanding disk pad is best used with a drill grinder but I figured if you have a normal cordless drill, you can make it work as well.Just attach the pad bit to your drill with the appropriate grit sandpaper attached, and you can get your projects sanded and polished until they’re silky smooth.