looking for a new bench drill

I been looking at buying a new bench drill chester or warco around £340 price.

Not sure if maybe best looking for a quality second hand one I mainly drill stainless steel and my cheap £70 wolf drill struggles and stalls a lot

I've got a 16 speed Clarke CDP302B from Machine Mart. Aside from needing plenty of headroom it's really rather good and doesn't have any quill wobble.

I generally use it with a smaller chuck than the big one supplied with it, but swapping is a two-minute jonb with an MT2 quill.

Neil

Are you anywhere near Wiltshire, you could save a serious amount of money if you have the time.

For-Sale post on here

Bill

Lug - I've sent you a message,

John

Like Neil,I also have a 16 speed Taiwan pillar drill 5/8" chuck,some 34 years old at this stage,and still going strong.

Despite being in almost daily use,some heavy,it has never given any trouble,and can handle 1" drills with no bother.

So I dont think you can go too far wrong even if you go for the bench model. At the time,I paid 300 Irish [I dont think there was much difference Irish/English at the time ] You might buy even cheaper now

I consider it to be one of the best machines I ever bought [and much better than some ! ]

Go for it.

I'm looking for a new bench drill but a much smaller one suitable for indoor use. To be purely for small drills up to 3.5 mm. in a range of materials, balsa, plywood, M.S. brass, bronze etc. No heavy drilling the boxford union in the workshop does all that.

There are numerous cheapy, cheapy, chinese ones around the £100 mark and all available via delivery from the far east. Not sure about these, look like glorified dremels to me?

The proxxon TBH looks good but at a whopping £365 I would want some really good feedback and a up close look before i would buy at that price.

The axminster XO at £312 also expensive but I do like the variable speed drive, digital readout and the scroll chuck.

Arc euro are offering a sieg XO at £224 which looks very similar in spec and quality to the Axminster and has a ER11 collet chuck option .

Any thoughts on or experience of the above guys? cheers geoff

For a small precision drilling machine the SEIG X0 is good, and can be properly upgraded to a 'micro mill' with an XY table (It is built as a mill so not the usual drill as mill bodge).

As I understand it the Arc and Axminster machines are the same but Axminster offer a 3 year guarantee. It is essential to use the locking screw when using an ER11 chuck as it is taper fit.

Neil