Which of these 3 Bench Drills?

[paulc]

Hello,

I'd love to get an old fobco or meddings machine but this is not possible due to size / weight / phase and time constraints.

So I've narrowed it down to the following:

http://www.recordpower.co.uk/product/bench-drill-with-22-column-and-12-chuck#.VHzdEckylKg

Record a well known brand , but have heard some very bad reports about the model up from this.

http://www.warco.co.uk/drilling-mac...b5-bench-mounting-drill-drilling-machine.html

Not familiar with brand but love the 63kgs vs 27kg in record and specs are better.

http://www.nmatools.co.uk/productdetails.asp?Product=907&Page=Spec

I like the fact that the drill head can be swung out away from the table - I imagine that this may come in handy for drilling into long pieces - can anyone tell me if there is some way this could be achieved with the warco / non radial arm drills.

Is this feature important in your experience?

Which would you buy?

Cheers

 

[t8hants]

I am looking at a Chester D19 which has a very good spec, and appears to be the same as an Axminster model ED16B2, but £80.00 less.

 

[woodpig]

Don't give up on an old English made machine. They are very heavy but I got round this by taking it apart to move it. Many have single phase motors as well and even if it doesn't there are inexpensive ways round it. Size wise many aren't much if any bigger than those linked I wouldn't have thought? You'll get a far better machine but I guess you're aware of that. They bought a JET machine similar to the ones linked where I used to work and the quality was really quite bad and noisy to boot.