Motor sounds a bit small.
A pillar drill is much better than a bench drill, you will find you want more height and not having a rack to lift the table is a pain. I wouldn't go for a drill without morse taper spindle.
But if you don't have a drill and need one, I can't see you would loose money if you bought it and decided to flog it later and got a pillar drill.
It looks like an acceptable basic "first" drill. If it is near to you, and you can win it for about 30 Pounds, that would be a fair deal. But don't expect too much from it. You can pick up this kind of drill from Aldi or Lidl, new, for 30 to 40 Pounds.
For a "real" bench or pillar drill: Fobco bench drill, eBay item 180333697285, Egham; or Fobco pillar drill, eBay item 270351266340, Bromsgrove. Also search for "Meddings" and "Kerry".
cheers lads. its not gonna be used that often . if i have any big prodjects on the go i will use my works 3phase one. light use really odd 12mm hole every now and then. i thought it looked a bit chunkier than the machine mart ones
A pillar drill is no different to a bench drill if they are the same spec they will perform the same, the only difference being the height. you could fab a stand in no time at little cost.
No price.
The floor stander looks exactly the same.One drawback to denbigh drills is the drive, it's by a single key in the spindle and after a couple of years of drilling 7/8 holes through inch thick stainless the keyway on mine was pretty bad.
Note the belt tensioning sytem, never come across better. I did have a floor standing one of these aswell.
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Approximately 24 bench and pillar drills, various types, 1/2" chucks, 1 morse taper and 2 morse taper spindles, some are back geared, Denford, Union, Kerry, Qualters & Smith etc etc....must go to make room for more stock arriving soon, from £60.00 each, you are welcome to collect.....other machines and tooling....... http://www.premiermachinetools.co.uk/ (I am a machinery & tooling dealer) contact Steve....07710-401194 or 01623-491001
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Mansfield UK
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