Less Expensive Magnetic Base Drills

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

Just wondering if anyone has bought one of the lower value end of the magnetic base drill range and how happy with the product were you?

A quick check of Trade Tools and Bunnings found their lower end range at the prices marked below:

920W 35mm Magnetic Drill HMPRO35 $1149
Full Boar 1200W 42mm Magnetic Drill $899

A check online in eBay found the following ...
VEVOR Magnetic Drill 1550W 2922lbf/13000N Portable Mag Drill Press 500RPM $262.99

I would like to buy a magnetic base drill for only occasional use. I simply cannot justify paying close to and more than $1000 for the amount of use the drill will get.

Can anyone recommended a capable magnetic base drill that ranges from the Vevor example up to $500? If so what machine in my suggested price range did you get and how well did it meet your usage needs?

Kind regards
Lionel

[V8Ian]

Unfortunately Lionel, cheap tools are exactly that. Maybe worth renting for occasional use.

[POD]

I do recall someone on a metalwork forum bought the vevor one and it had a major design flaw that rendered it useless.

[towe0609]

I know nothing about Magnetic Drills ... but watch too much youtube

Vevor Next Generation Magnetic Drill Review (Vast Improvement) - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1FfAxZQBsE)


I do recall someone on a metalwork forum bought the vevor one and it had a major design flaw that rendered it useless.

[pop058]

Unfortunately Lionel, cheap tools are exactly that. Maybe worth renting for occasional use.

Or he could borrow mine [smilebigeye]

[Reddirt204]

keep an eye out on the auction sites, the good ones never wear out.... also cash convertors sometimes have random things like that.

Personally I hate buying crap tooling, these days I will just bite the bullet (once I have justified it) another option might be a cordless one, I have run Milwaukee 18v magbase drills, when we first got one at work I was like "what a waste of time" within about an hour of running one it changed to "these are bloody amazing":Rolling: but again $$$$ will come into it, also good old Gumtree is worth checking out

cheers

Redd