Pillar drills

[Phil Pascoe]

I bought this one today, it's a 1990 Multico, made in Taiwan. It came with the X-Y table for the princely sum of £120. I wanted the table more so than the drill, I have a Meddings DrillTru. My intention was the sell this one on - I'm sure I could get £120 for it alone, it's clean as a pin and has a new chuck. My wife, though made an obvious observation - this one, really, for what I use a pillar for would probably suit me better than the Meddings, the table on that being so bloody heavy and my being disabled.
So I'm unsure which way to go - I could probably sell the Medding easily enough if I don't load the price too much.

 

[Tris]

Can you add a hydraulic lift to the Meddings table? Perhaps a suitable bottle jack could be repurposed at it's simplest

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I have both a scissors and a bottle jack, I've considered that before.