My pillar drill has served me well these last twenty or so years, but it is a hobbyist type job, bought in Aldi. 500W motor and 1.5-16mm chuck, so versatile, with easily changed gearing belts etc. Basic but useful. But its electrics are temperamental and its bearings wobble etc, so I want to treat myself to a new one.
This will not be a posh engineering machine, just a decent basic one. I have been looking at Clarke pillar drills on Machine Mart and think something like that for £100-£200 would do it. But just wanted to know, if that was your budget, what would you get? What experience do you have of that type of budget drill and what machine might you recommend?
