A surgical, manually operated, hand-held MRI-compatible drill for drilling though target bone of a patient includes: a housing a ring gear held in the housing a hand crank attached to ring gear and the housing a pinion gear held in the housing in cooperating alignment with the ring gear an elongate shaft attached to the pinion on one end portion and to a chuck support on an opposing end portion a chuck attached to the chuck support held and jaws attached to the chuck support and residing in the chuck adapted to hold a drill bit. The drill is light-weight. The components can all be polymeric.
