Thread: Toolex Magnetic Drill

Fein is probably the most respected brand of magnetic drills, and are expensive as such, but used throughout industry for their reliability etc. Bosch also do a good unit.
The Toolex unit will do the job, and should have a 12 month warranty. If you complete your job within the 12 months, all good. If it fails within the 12 months, get it replaced under warranty. The bonus if it lasts the 12 months and the job is completed, you end up with a useful bit of gear that will be 'value for money'.

Hope this helps,

Alan...

Thanks Alan,
Sounds like checking the warranty will be a good place to start. Pending that, maybe we will give it a go.
And what about the type of cutter. Standard drill bit or something fancier - remembering we are only cutting a 1/2 inch hole. I'm told there are other options that work much better, particularly with the auto feed cutting fluid.
Cheers,
Mark

I don't know which would be better, a 1/2" conventional drill or a hollow core cutter. Using a No.2 Morse Taper drill will be shorter than putting a Jacobs type chuck and a straight shank drill bit in it. I think core bits are a fair bit shorter, but don't know how expensive they are.
Pretty sure the core cutters can be sharpened by an industrial sharpening service.

Hope this helps.

Alan...

Even if there's no mention of warranty, you are still covered by the statutory warranty that all companies are legally bound to provide.
Without going in to all the details of it, they basically have to warrant that whatever you buy will work as intended for what would be considered a 'reasonable period of time' for that particular type of product; power tools may only be covered for a year or two, larger items like whitegoods would be expected to last longer and, therefore, would have longer statutory warranties.
If it fails in that time they MUST repair, replace, or give you a refund for it.

I have found Gasweld to be a very responsible supplier and I very much doubt that you will have any difficulties if something goes wrong. I am intrigued by the magnesium body. We all know that many companies outsource manufacture and that the source factory often despatches multiple brands in different colours to amortise the tooling and set up costs. Tooling for magnesium casting is very expensive and so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that this magnetic drill is exactly the same construction and quality as a more 'professional' brand ...or brands?
fletty

Gasweld are 'rebranders' and virtually all their power tools come from China or Taiwan. They can generally be relied upon to have sourced a good product for the price. I would wonder about the magnesium castings though. Magnesium is not that much lighter than aluminium and I doubt that the weight saving in a tool of this size would justify its use and the increased cost - you never know though! Regardless, I wouldn't have any qualms buying it for the use you intend.

It looks a lot like this one - http://www.shchengxiang.com/enproduc...=58&classid=25

They appear to be manufacturers dedicated to production of this type of equipment. Hopefully the HD stands for heavy duty?

Cheers,
David