Pillar drill choice/offer?

[TobyB]

A mate of mine asked me if this Scheppach-RAB-S16X floor drill was worth looking at?

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/67197/Pow ... CSTHZOSFFQ

I know nothing about these (I have a B&W "Quatro" mains hand drill that does me OK mostly) - apparently owning a lathe and a decent hand plane makes you an expert (!) - he's wanting something for accurate drilling for all sorts of carpentry/joinery.

I've been reasonably impressed by the quality of their bandsaws - does anyone own one of these to suggest "thumbs up" or "run away!"?

 

[big soft moose]

we've got the axminster version of that at work and its okay (they are virtually identical except for the colour scheme) - however note that as its a radial - that is the head moves backwards and forwards -it will take up a deal of space.

if your freind is pressed for space and the ability to drill lots of parallel holes isnt important to him he'd be better off with a more compact version like this