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Cheap pillar drill
dern - 14/10/04 at 07:48 AM

My local B&Q has these pillar drills...

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=060710005&r=2042&g=106

...marked up as "powertools" for only 20 quid. This is the Newbury branch BTW.

Hope that this is of use to someone. They're pretty old fashioned (new ones have laser sights) and quite low powered but seem to work very well.

Regards,

Mark


James - 20/10/04 at 11:15 AM

Looks similar (if not the same) as the B&Q one I bought recently for about £30.

Has been working great (it's 350w) up until recently when the chuck seized so I now can't tighten it to fit the drill bits in. Once I get round to dismantling it and boxing it it's going back for a replacement model!

Cheers,

James


Mark Allanson - 20/10/04 at 06:10 PM

Exactly the same as mine, now 6 years old, had a fistfull of abuse and as good as the day I got it


bob - 20/10/04 at 06:40 PM

I've got the sealey version,scewfix ran out of there £29.99 ferm pillar drills so they sent me the sealey.Obviously they must all be the same but re badged.
Anyway i've had it for about 4 years and like mark its had a load of abuse and its stil going strong.

Just got a flyer from machine mart for a VAT free day,got to be worth a look

[Edited on 20/10/04 by bob]