Cheapo Lidl drill press, could be useful

This has been lying in a corner since I got other better gear but it occurred to me tonight that it may have portable uses in the right circumstances, especially if you have knackered hands/thumbs

They do still appear from time to time

If you're forced to do loads of holes by hand in a steel plate, concrete, or a remote location then read on

The drill can be set to drill beneath the bottom plate, up to 60mm travel is possible and you can preset the depth as well

You can also stand on the plate while it drills the hole

The plate is a nice solid heavy casting, not tinfoil

Just thought I'd share

Edited By Ady1 on 20/01/2018 01:24:05

Ady 1:

Yes, they are versatile and useful on occasion. I used to have a similar Bosch device permanently mounted at the rear of my woodwork bench with the base screwed up to the underside of the bench so that the only obstruction was the column.

Yes,they are useful,the only problem I found with them,is that the clamp tends to compress the bearing and this prevents the spindle from running smooth. Still,for the price,they are handy to have.

I'v got a similar device from Black and Decker, got it some time in the 1970s I think, have often thought of making it into a tapping stand.

Ian S C

Brilliant! Ideal for hammer drilling holes into concrete floors for bolting down lathe benches etc.

A few (many!) years ago I managed to drill and ream 4 holes in the crankshaft flange of a tractor engine to fit strengthening dowels to the crank/flywheel connection using a Black and Decker version of the drill stand.

I was able to bolt the stand to the engine backplate and used a jig to align the holes. The cost to strip the engine and do the job on a horizontal borer was going to be over £200 so that stand paid for itself many times over and I still have it (somewhere!)

Bit of an extreme approach to removing corns...

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 20/01/2018 13:41:10

I don't want to start yet another Lidl thread, so I hope it's O.K. to digress slightly.

Has anyone tried one of these ?

**LINK**

https://www.lidl.de/de/parkside-winkelbithalter/-bohrvorsatz-4-teilig/p264332

^^^ That's a German link, but I bought one last week in U.K. for £5.99

At first sight it is nicely balanced and well-proportioned, BUT there is a lot of rock in both the input and output bearings; and of the three supplied drills, one runs reasonably true and the others both have runout which exceeds the diameter of the drill [this is, I think, because they are held magnetically and the end of the hexagon is not ground 'square'].

Overall, rather disappointing ... but I'm tempted to try making a silk purse out of this particular sow's ear.

Any thoughts ?

MichaelG.

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P.S. What appears to be the Screwfix equivalent is reviewed here: **LINK**

https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-angled-screwdriver-bit-holder/2658h

I've got a proper cordless angle driver (Panasonic equivalent of this) which is invaluable eg for putting in (wood)screws between joists, drilling holes in tight spaces etc. In those circumstances and with only a std drill driver, one of these things might get you out of a tight(!) scrape but it wouldn't be much fun. You are trying to stop the thing rotating in 2 axes at once and I expect it's as wobbly as a very wobbly thing.

Murray

Quite so, Murray

But the Lidl one is very compact and I do think it has [limited] potential.

MichaelG.