Motorize Your Sausage Stuffer With a Cordless Drill

Motorizing your sausage stuffer with a 20v cordless drill is simple and cheap.

Use your foot to control the speed while you use both hands to manage the sausage. Stuffing is now a one-man job.

And you can continue to use your cordless for other honey-do projects.

Watch the video to see how well it works.

My drill chuck could not fit on the stuffer - so I bought a 16mm 5/8 in chuck.

The speed control is done with a bicycle brake lever and cable. If you don't have an old bike to pirate, get a cable that is at least 175 cm / 6 feet long. My cable was not adjustable, but that would be preferable.

Two 4 inch wide pieces of plywood will serve to hold the brake lever as a foot pedal

A 4 in hinge help to stop the drill from rotating.

Mount the chuck on the stuffer. If your drill chuck can fit, you don't need the bigger chuck I had to buy.

Two EMT saddles (to mount electrical pipe) worked perfectly as a mechanism to pull the trigger on the drill.

Use your dremmel to cut slots for the brake cable (only if yours already has the lead stoppers on both ends)

Tighten the long screw to make your drill run faster when you push the foot pedal all the way (or visa versa)

Mount the brake lever on the plywood with three flat head screws - tighten the hex nut.

Obviously the brake cable goes between the foot pedal and the trigger mechanism!

When you pull the trigger, the drill will want to rotate instead of the stuffer.

I mounted a 4in hinge on the stuffer (with a wooden extension) which I can flip up on one side of the drill to prevent the drill from rotating.