Clarke CDP5R Drill Press

[jadboog]

Hi all,

Does anyone have the Clarke CDP5R? I am looking to buy it - I don't need anything too elaborate as it will be mainly for scroll saw prep work.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... rill-press

Thanks,
James

 

[OPJ]

I've had one of their larger models for a few years and I'm quite happy with it. Can't think of anything to complain about, right now - except that after breaking two of those guards, I no longer bother with them at all!

 

[RogerS]

I hope I'm not too late to reply.

Open your wallet and remove £50 in cash. Take a box of matches and set light to the money. Warm your hands on the flames. You will get more benefit from the warmth than you will from this horrendous piece of junk.

I have one. I wish I didn't. There is so much play in the quill that I might as well bend the drill bit - the end result will be the same. I've looked at various drills in the same price range. They all suffer the same problem. Lower the quill to its' lowest position, grasp the chuck and give it a good shake. All I have checked have slop. Your holes will not be round and won't be where you want them to be.

They also have very limited travel.

I'm looking out for a decent secondhand drill like a Meddings.

 

[jadboog]

wow! Thanks for the comments - did you upgrade to a better drill afterwards Rogers? Any recommendations what to buy instead?

 

[RogerS]

wow! Thanks for the comments - did you upgrade to a better drill afterwards Rogers? Any recommendations what to buy instead?

No, it's still sitting there. I don't use it that much (hardly surprising) so no real incentive to find something on ebay that's local and single phase.

 

[big soft moose]

wow! Thanks for the comments - did you upgrade to a better drill afterwards Rogers? Any recommendations what to buy instead?

as roger says all the cheaper (sub £100) drills suffer in this way - therefore if you must buy a cheap one for economic reasons you might as well get a really cheap one off ebay - at least you wont be wasting too much money.

in addition to the problem roger highlights 250W is dramatically underpowered for drilling hardwood - ideally you want to be looking at arround 500W +

if you want a quality drill you either have to pay well over the ton to axminster/record/clarke/draper etc for one of their better offerings or look on ebay for a meddings, sealey, or such second hand

 

[Boz62]

Last year I upgraded from the Wickes version of that drill (and it had all the problems Roger says!) to the Axminster ED16SB and I couldn't be happier. It is still a budget drill, so don't expect Rolls Royce quality, but is has none of the faults of the £50 drills and all in all, I think it is heck of a lot of drill for the money and is so much more useful.

Boz

 

[RogerS]

Oooh..thanks for that, Boz. It's also got a wind-up table which I like.

 

[jadboog]

Oooh..thanks for that, Boz. It's also got a wind-up table which I like.

Ditto!

 

[big soft moose]

the axminster mid budget range are decent - we've got one of these at work and i'd happily reccomend it. It £180 mind you (though we got it for less as we reclaim the vat) but the bench mounted variant is only £154

 

[jedmc571]

I have this one

http://www.axminster.co.uk/recno/5/prod ... -21711.htm

It's a great little machine (and it is little :lol: ) but had no problems with it, drills oak handy enough.

I suppose like everything, depends on what you want it for

Cheers

Jed

 

[Boz62]

Oooh..thanks for that, Boz. It's also got a wind-up table which I like.

It is a metalwork one so does have a solid table with coolant grooves and T slots. I've made a very crude ply table with fixed fence for woody stuff, they slide together back and fore, clamped at the edge underneath. I always use a scrap backer on it which, with the effective depth stop, saves drilling the table. I do need to modify the up/down handle however to clear my added table when it's fully back

At £117, 370W and with a 16mm chuck it's a good compromise spec but still only 37Kg so I can move it single handed. 5 speeds is plenty in practice, and it's coped with 25mm Forstner and spade bits into beech happily. This suits my small workshop nicely, the 500W ones jump to £200, 80Kg, and are quite a bit taller and deeper as well.

Boz

 

[misterfish]

I had (well still have) a cheap Axminster equivalent and it suffers from the quill wobble as well and it made accurate work difficult. I looked for a while and decided that a decent new replacment was too expensive so started looking on Ebay. I eventually bought an old Fobco Star for £50 - old, solid good British engineering at its best. No quill wobble, long down stroke and heavy (about 70kg) - but as the drill head is adjustable and removable it makes moving it somewhat easier. It just took a while to find a single phase version that was reasonable local to me. There's one on Ebay at the moment for about £85 but it doesn't say if it is single phase or not.

Misterfish