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Cheers Dave. Actually the Axminster includes vat at £499, so slightly less per hole 😂

I have a son who will likely take all my tools on my demise, so they will hopefully not be wasted. We are fortunate to live in the property Dad built in 1953, so his former garage is now my workshop.

Cheers

Thx

Unfortunately this drill is their own brand, so is not available elsewhere (unless under a different name).

I do agree about shopping around as the Makita set I want varies between £450 and £600 at different dealers.

Hi All,

Thanks to all for your advice and opinions. I did contact the guy selling the Meddings but he would not move on the price. It would also cost me £50 to get someone to collect it for me. I was also a little concerned that if there were any issues with it when I got it home, I would not be technical enough to fix them myself. TBH, I do not think a milling machine would be of benefit to me.

Although I m sure some will feel I have made the wrong decision, I have decided to go for the Axminster trade drill, and will put the £250 saved towards a Makita plunge saw and track, which is also on my list.

Very many thanks to all….

Martin

Thank you Dave for that comprehensive reply. Whichever drill I get will probably not get used much. I am recently retired, and each Christmas I run a light display in our garden for a charity. I want to, this year, build some moving displays, using low rev / high torque motors, and the drill will be used to fabricate frames and brackets etc.

My late Father was boatbuilder and he drilled into me (no pun intended) to always ‘buy the best tools for the job’, be it a plane, a hammer, or a set of spanners. I also sometimes think buying s/h is preferable as if you have to sell something at a later date, the loss is likely to be less.

I worked on the basis that most drills under £150 would not likely be of a high quality, and was originally thinking of spending around £300, but some of the reviews of drills, even in this price range, were not favourable. I then looked at the hobby Axminster drill at £340……and then looked at the trade version at £499, It is considerably heavier than the hobby version, so my warped mind came to the conclusion it must be more robust!

Then out of the blue this Meddings popped up, albeit an extra £200 over the cost of the Trade. Whilst I like the idea of an old solid machine, I am not an engineer, and if I get the Meddings home and it runs out of true, or the beings are noisy etc, it is not something I would repair myself, and I guess the cost of transporting the drill to and from a repair shop, together with the cost of the repair itself, could add up to another few hundred pounds.

If the Meddings was very cheap at £700, then I may take a punt, but if it is the ‘going’ price, I m not sure it is worth the risk over a machine with a 3 year warranty.

Edited By Martin Pyke on 11/01/2022 14:40:40

Someone has kindly advised me how to post pictures, so have now added. Many thanks Michael.

Edited By Martin Pyke on 11/01/2022 10:26:32

Could anyone please give me an idea of the value of this Meddings drill. It would a good condition and was fully serviced about 3 years ago when it was bought from a college. It is up for £700 and I am looking at this or a new Axminster Trade drill at £500.00

It will mainly be for small projects using timber and aluminium.

Many thanks