Thread: A classic?

Brings back a few memories. I had a similar product as that many years ago and never used it much. don't know what became of it, must have thrown it out some years back. The problem with the one I had was to get the drill to sit square to the table to drill a hole that was not at an angle.

I bought a modern day one from Aldi no long ago sits on the floor under a tool trolly for now have plans for it

Still have an AEG one made in Germany which I purchased in about 1971 to go with my AEG drill.

It works very well for depth and vertical drilling but as it was lowered it was possible [very easily] to get a lateral shift unless you pulled to one side and kept it there as it was lowered. The problem was mainly solved by centre-punching the timber with a press punch and ensuring that the drill started in the punched hole while keeping the handle to one side.

Very rarely today, I dig it out and clamp it to a saw horse [outside] to use a sanding drum to enlarge or sand a hole or sand a taper in timber as I'm not keen to use these drums in a drill press because of the sideways pressure and mainly the dust clean up where the DP is located.


Regards,
Bob

Hi all,

yes, haha, i remember the Oxwall version from the pics. It was also sold in Europe in a generic brand-less version, just labeled "Drill Press Stand" for a bargain. It is a typical Asian made DIY-product, sold in superstores and budget-marts. I bought one also and fell for it because of some seamingly nifty features, like the tilt-function of the little workpiece table. But the overall layout of the thing was light and not too precise.
The version i had was fitted with a sprung rack and pinion system for the vertical motion of the mounted drill. Either the rack had sideplay or got stuck when all guiding parts around the rack were tigthened enough to get rid of the play. In that case the spring was no longer strong enough to overcome the fiction and the drill remained in the down position without springing up by itself again. It's probably no coincidence that the drill is depicted on the box together with a small lightweight drill with somebody busy with some light task. I used the stand together with a similarly light small AEG electronic speed drill for electronics jobs (holes in printed circuit boards and such), but it simply lacked in the necessary precision that often come with such light tasks. So eventually i threw this gadget out when the shed was becoming too cluttered and i had to make choices about things of a low enough value to say goodbye to.

The AEG BST717 drill stand is another story. It is a solid piece of German cast iron, steel rod and alloy casting. It is durable and of a simple yet useful design. TechTronic Industries from HongKong (the present owner of AEG, Milwaukee and Ridgid) left it in piece in their catalogue, so it's still available, but probably no longer of German manufacture. The BST 717 came with a clamp ring for the standard 43 mm "Euro" drill collar, but there was also a larger version, taking big 16 mm drills with a 57 mm collar, like AEG's BZ16A .

greetings

That drill attachment could be converted to a hand tapper for tapping threads in metal or fit a dremel to make a sensitive drill for micro drills.

Kev.