Anybody have a Magnetic drill that they would recommend

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Not used one for over 40 years. Was the one we had at work a Wolf? Can't remember.
I imagine it's more to do with the thickness needed for the magnet to successfully stick to.
 
Thanks, any thoughts on the minimum thickness...

The minimum thickness has nothing to do with the bits. The magnet needs a certain minimum thickness in order that it grip hard enough to resist the drilling pressure.

Have a look here, as there are specialist solutions for using a mag drill on thin stuff:

https://www.jeiuk.com/catalogue/full
 
I was lucky and got an alfra rotabest, lightly used, for a decent price. Discontinued but good.
It's single speed only but 400rpm / 1100W so more than powerful enough for me and v well built.
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Features to look for:
Distance from the spindle axis to the edge of the magnet is always small and limits the diameter of cutters. Also limits you if trying to use like a drill press.
I'm picking up new surplus cutters for £10-20 on ebay and find Rotabroach Raptor the best finished of the ones I've seen so far.
I wanted a jacobs chuck with a wealdon stub so that I could use smaller twist drills. I bought a cheap one and it was absolute rubbish. Buy a stub and put a not so nastily cheap chuck on it yourself. You need a lot of vertical clearance to fit a jacobs with a 100mm+ long twist drill in it into a mag drill. Smaller drills don't have enough vertical travel for this.
Annular cutters are great. Smallest Rotabroach cutter I've found with a 3/4" weldon shank is 11mm. Knocks the spots off a jobber drill.
 

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The minimum thickness has nothing to do with the bits. The magnet needs a certain minimum thickness in order that it grip hard enough to resist the drilling pressure.

Have a look here, as there are specialist solutions for using a mag drill on thin stuff:

https://www.jeiuk.com/catalogue/full
Thank you, the learning continues, am much obliged to you!
Same to Sideways
 

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