Fobco 1/2” Cap Bench drill dimensions?

[Co1]

Just bought one of these and off to pick it up on Sunday. Anyone got an idea of the rough dimensions?
Thanks
Col

 

[ChaiLatte]

How rough dimensions do you want?

Wembley stadium would be large enough to accommodate one.
A 20 foot container would have capacity for five or six.
A standard 500mm kitchen wall cupboard would hold one if you took the shelf out.
Picture here:

https://ostiatools.co.uk/product/fobco-star-1-2-13mm-bench-drill-press-230v-single-phase/

You can look up the size of a standard building block and infer the size from that.

 

[Sideways]

Too heavy to carry home on the bus or train.
Small enough to fit in any car or van you might use.
They'll go on the back seat of a car with some padding or in even a small hatchback with rear seats down.
Bigger than the little £30 supermarket bench drills of the 80's
Smaller than the bigger Jet and Axminster modern bench drills

Startrite Mercury is probably similar in size and weight.

 

[Co1]

How rough dimensions do you want?

Wembley stadium would be large enough to accommodate one.
A 20 foot container would have capacity for five or six.
A standard 500mm kitchen wall cupboard would hold one if you took the shelf out.
Picture here:

https://ostiatools.co.uk/product/fobco-star-1-2-13mm-bench-drill-press-230v-single-phase/

You can look up the size of a standard building block and infer the size from that.

I clearly haven’t been very astute with my request! I was looking for length, width and height of the drill, not Wembley stadium!

 

[Co1]

Too heavy to carry home on the bus or train.
Small enough to fit in any car or van you might use.
They'll go on the back seat of a car with some padding or in even a small hatchback with rear seats down.
Bigger than the little £30 supermarket bench drills of the 80's
Smaller than the bigger Jet and Axminster modern bench drills

Startrite Mercury is probably similar in size and weight.

Thanks. That’s really helpful.

 

[Sideways]

Best I can do. I don't own one. But hopefully you are not trying to figure out if it'll go in the passenger seat while your wife and 2 kids squeeze in the rear during a detour on the way home from from a trip to the zoo

PS - please share the measurements here when you do have yours home safe. It was a good question and I couldn't find the answer either.

 

[dickm]

Mine is 34" high, 20" front to back and about 13" wide.. B****y heavy is the best measure of weight and awkward shape as well. Thirty years ago I had to get daughter's then boyfriend to help me lift it on to bench. Think the removal guys probably put it in place when we moved to Scotland17 years ago

 

[Co1]

Thanks Dick, really helpful. I’m familiar with that SI unit of weight, my planer was triple b*st**d heavy!

 

[Amplidyne]

Mine is 34" high, 20" front to back and about 13" wide.. B****y heavy is the best measure of weight and awkward shape as well. Thirty years ago I had to get daughter's then boyfriend to help me lift it on to bench. Think the removal guys probably put it in place when we moved to Scotland17 years ago

If it's anything like the Walker Turner I have, then "B****y heavy" describes it exactly. Last time I put it on a bench I used rope blocks to lift it. I can move it around, but not really pick it up, it'd need two blokes for that.

 

[johnwalls26]

Don't stand it upright in a vehicle. Weight is at the top of the column and it will tip over first bend. A tool dealer lost a Sprinter window recently. Lay it flat on a seat or in the boot on a long boards to slide out.

 

[Fergie 307]

If it's anything like the Walker Turner I have, then "B****y heavy" describes it exactly. Last time I put it on a bench I used rope blocks to lift it. I can move it around, but not really pick it up, it'd need two blokes for that.

I bought a big old floor standing pillar drill a few years ago. The seller had already taken the head off the top of the column, and warned me it was fooking heavy. When I got it home I had intended to lift the top back on with my engine crane.
Unfortunately the ceiling in my workshop wasn't high enough. Ended up putting it together laying on its side on the floor then lifting it upright, still took two of us to get it off the floor

 

[Amplidyne]

I bought a big old floor standing pillar drill a few years ago. The seller had already taken the head off the top of the column, and warned me it was fooking heavy. When I got it home I had intended to lift the top back on with my engine crane.
Unfortunately the ceiling in my workshop wasn't high enough. Ended up putting it together laying on its side on the floor then lifting it upright, still took two of us to get it off the floor

That's the trouble with all lifting gear, you need the headroom to use it. I've got an engine crane these days, but as you say, you still need the room above.
What we could do with is some of those anti gravity sky hooks!

 

[Co1]

Picked up today. Bloody heavy. Unfortunately it’s 3ph, although the motor name plate says it can be wired in single. Has anyone done this? Obviously it will run slower, but I can probably cope with that.

 

[Fergie 307]

That's the trouble with all lifting gear, you need the headroom to use it. I've got an engine crane these days, but as you say, you still need the room above.
What we could do with is some of those anti gravity sky hooks!

I have an I beam across the middle of the main space in my big shed, and an old chain block running along it on rollers. Great for lifting stuff.
When I got my milling machine I lifted that off it's pallet using the chain and plonked it on a hydraulic scissor lift. Then just wheeled it over to the bench and slid it across.
Not spectacularly heavy, about 90kg, but really awkward thing to get hold of.
The scissor lift is a little switzer one with about a 450mm square deck. I bought one of their bike lifts and got a discount voucher so the scissor one only cost me about £60. Great bit of kit.

 

[Amplidyne]

I have an I beam across the middle of the main space in my big shed, and an old chain block running along it on rollers. Great for lifting stuff.
When I got my milling machine I lifted that off it's pallet using the chain and plonked it on a hydraulic scissor lift. Then just wheeled it over to the bench and slid it across.
Not spectacularly heavy, about 90kg, but really awkward thing to get hold of.
The scissor lift is a little switzer one with about a 450mm square deck. I bought one of their bike lifts and got a discount voucher so the scissor one only cost me about £60. Great bit of kit.

Very useful having a beam like that. I lifted the drill off a heavy wooden beam with a three pulley block I have.
But that's the trouble with all lifting. It's not so much the lifting itself, it's just that some things are an awkward shape or balance.

 

[Fergie 307]

When I used to be whipping engines in and out one of the best gadgets was a tilting beam that allows you to alter the tilt of the engine relative to the crane, then lock it in that position. I'm guessing 1960's bit of kit made by Churchill, picked it up at a clearance auction of a big dealership that had gone belly up. Got the rolling chain hoist at the same auction.
Love the old kit. Also have a similar era Churchill mechanical press, salvaged from a skip at the local Citroen dealer, with permission of course
Great tool, and love the fact that you can feel what's going on unlike a hydraulic one.