There is a posting ( 19. January ) on the "Home Workshop" model engineering website www.homeworkshop.org.uk for a Progress Number 1 bench drill with 1/4 hp single phase motor. It is in Cambridge, and is free to a good home.
Well, ideally i'd like to be able to drill cast, whilst i wont be doing it very often, it would come in handy with some car part's.
How do you sharpen drill bits without having to buy some contraption to do it? Ive got a bench grinder, but the wheel is alittle past its best!
I have the Aldi pillar drill (bought a couple of years ago for £35),I don't use it that often but I've had no problems with it.It has a 16mm chuck and a strong 500 watt motor,which compares well with the usual cheapo bench drills with 13mm chuck and 350w motors.
There is a posting ( 19. January ) on the "Home Workshop" model engineering website www.homeworkshop.org.uk for a Progress Number 1 bench drill with 1/4 hp single phase motor. It is in Cambridge, and is free to a good home.
I had a BandQ equivalent for a few years, before I got my milling machine.
2 easy things to do to make it better:
1, Car scissor jack under the table, stops it flexing badly, and
2, Take the quill out (2 mns) cut the casting where the quill is bored into it and fit a clamp to it. Then you can adjust the quill to have a nice tight sliding fit without the wobble.
Drill a hole in the end of the slit to stop it cracking all the way up the head.
I made a clamp, but you could get away with brazing a cheap G clamp to the head I guess
Dave
What is this about a scissor jack underneath it? And what on earth is a quill that one has to drill ? Please explain someone.
Same with the Aldi drill. "Precision" my RSI've got a MM bench drill that has play in the quill and when it is down at full travel you can move the end of the drill bit around a good few mm.
Yeap, I found the table flexed a lot when drilling large (10mm, not *that* large) holes.With a budget drilling machine the table bit probably flexes if you put too much pressure on when drilling so the jack supports the table.
The quill is the bit that moves down when you turn the handles to drill through something (a rack and pinion sort of affair) It looks like he has split the casting in which the quill moves and made up a clamp to tighten it all up.
I've got a MM bench drill that has play in the quill and when it is down at full travel you can move the end of the drill bit around a good few mm.