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    Quote Originally Posted by burraboy View Post
    Apart from the colour, looks pretty much like this one...
    Thanks for that, well spotted. You can see the Scheppach unit reviewed at Amazon UK:
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scheppach-8...dp/B00DOZYZQI/

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    My ALDI drill press made a hell of a racket from the start and I was thinking of making a warranty call but decided to check it over myself first. I was fairly sure the noise wasn't coming from the motor or belt drive, but more likely from the quill. I partially dismantled it until I could inspect the quill and found it covered in what can only be described as glue, very sticky and not at all similar to grease nor oil. I cleaned it off and re-covered in automotive grease. No other issues were found so I re-assembled it and lo and behold it's now fairly quiet! All the loud rattling is gone and only some moderate vibration remains, most of it from the fairly poorly balanced motor.
    Do make sure you align the angle of your table to the outer surface of the chuck or preferably to a straight steel rod held in the chuck. There is also significant deflection of the table under pressure so when doing more critical jobs using large drill bits I tend to support the underside of the table with wooden blocks and a pair of matching wedges...

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    I have to agree that you get what you pay for, we can't expect something for less that $100 to be as well made as something three or four times the price.
    However I was disappointed that the laser beams crossed well over an inch past the Drill point.
    I sent an email to the address in the book, but still waiting for a response.

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    Aldi drill press -not for those ̶o̶b̶s̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶c̶i̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ who want things that aren't bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tritonowner View Post
    However I was disappointed that the laser beams crossed well over an inch past the Drill point.
    Think yourself lucky the laser beams weren't marking a point on the ceiling. The Scheppach link to Aldi products certainly explains a LOT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tritonowner View Post
    I have to agree that you get what you pay for, we can't expect something for less that $100 to be as well made as something three or four times the price.
    However I was disappointed that the laser beams crossed well over an inch past the Drill point.
    I sent an email to the address in the book, but still waiting for a response.
    I bought the same Aldi drill press and had the same issue - but you can rotate the brass bushings on the laser unit to realign them, fine ever since for me. But I generally don't turn it on - I bought an Ikea Jansjo lamp to light up the area instead.

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    When your beginning in wood working can't beat cheap tools. Yes be nice have all features of something border line commercial/ industrial. But if you take it easy and don't work beyond the limits of the machine all is good. Aldi work tools are all the same cheap tools you can find in the ozito tools range. I think honestly there one massive factory just make the same tools just paint them a different colour when required.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparkington View Post
    Aldi work tools are all the same cheap tools you can find in the ozito tools range. I think honestly there one massive factory just make the same tools just paint them a different colour when required.
    I did a bit of a search and found all of the versions of Ozito’s table saw https://theducks.org/2018/07/how-man...-in-the-world/

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    I absolutely love Ozito and Aldi tools

    My worst nightmare is a world you'd have to pay "good tool" prices for every little thing you want to make light use of or simply try out of curiosity. That would be a terrible waste.

    True that an OzitAldiSheppach scrollsaw/welder/lathe/whatever is not gonna last very long under serious use, but during that time it will give you a pretty good idea if scrolling/welding/turning is for you, and then you can consider upgrading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spyro View Post
    ...That would be a terrible waste...
    The amount of materials required to manufacture a machine that will last 50years is not much greater than that used in an Ozito/Aldi that will last just a few years. This means that there will be maybe 10 crap machines in the tip for every one well made machine. That's a waste of resources.. that's the REAL 'terrible waste'.

    And that's not to mention 10 times the packaging (non-recyclable of course), and ten times the shipping (actually much more for 10 Asian machines vrs 1 Aussie/NZ made machine).

    Buy an old Hyco/Dyco and save the Earth.

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vann View Post
    The amount of materials required to manufacture a machine that will last 50years is not much greater than that used in an Ozito/Aldi that will last just a few years. This means that there will be maybe 10 crap machines in the tip for every one well made machine. That's a waste of resources.. that's the REAL 'terrible waste'.

    And that's not to mention 10 times the packaging (non-recyclable of course), and ten times the shipping (actually much more for 10 Asian machines vrs 1 Aussie/NZ made machine).

    Buy an old Hyco/Dyco and save the Earth.

    Cheers, Vann.
    Hi Vann,

    Metal and plastic doesn't go to landfill

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    Yeah, cos everyone recycles properly

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spyro View Post
    ...Metal and plastic doesn't go to landfill
    I don't know what happens in Oz, but over here you can still recycle aluminium and steel/iron - if the owner bothers. But not muck metal.

    Plastic, even when put in recycling bins was as often as not, buried in a landfill (either here or in Asia). However since China stopped accepting plastic from other countries, earlier this year, almost 100% now goes into the landfill (re-purposing plastic is almost extinct in NZ).

    Cheers, Vann (owner of 3 x 1920s; 1 x 1930s; 1 x 1940s & 1 x 1950s woodworking machines).
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    Not everybody has to recycle - as long as most people do. Bins are audited on a sample basis, sooner or later you get a warning sticker, then a fine.

    Metal and plastic definitely get recycled and depending on quality it can actually fetch a good price (within AU). Most waste companies have sorting sheds, and their revenue from steel, paper & plastic is a big reason why they can only charge Councils $1 per flip to pick up residential bins.

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    Recycling's definitely a thing where I am.

    Mainly 'cos there's no council pick-up... we have to truck our own waste to the tip and pay per load for the privilege of dropping it off as landfill. They do provide recycling bins with no charge attached, which certainly makes recycling much more appealing at the household level! .

    I make a monthly trip in with a full ute load, the majority of it is recycling. The Mrs & I only generate two large garbage bins of waste per month; it's surprising how much a good compost pile can absorb.

    For anything that's trucked in as landfill, there's a fee. Including green waste & woodwork by-products, so our yard is fairly heavily mulched. (Which in itself is a good thing; at this time of year it's not unusual to not be able to see the near horizon because of dust clouds. )

    So I'm fairly sure all the bins are recycled. Well... considered so at a council level anyway. Heaven only knows where the stuff ends up once it's in the hands of the people who hold the actual contracts to do the recycling!
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