Mini Drill Press from eBay - What can it ACTUALLY do? (watch till the end for the complete review)
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2018
- Tired of wasting hours, drilling inaccurate holes by hand? I was too!!
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After buying this Chinese (MINIQ 710w bg-5156e mini drill press) on eBay and owning it for several months, I think it's time to make a review! I had wanted a drill press for years, I was so tired of wasting hours, HOURS, drilling holes in steel, with a hand drill, with with some far from the accuracy that I'd like. In this video I will review this drill press, and make sure to look at all sides fairly - including yours! This the first woodworking/metalworking tool review I've made on this channel, so if you think I did a good job and would be interested in seeing my opinions on other tools, please let me know!
Overall, I'm very please with the drill press and am glad I bought it. I've saved hours so far, & don't know how many drill bits I've saved from breaking! I can drill dozens of holes in thick steel with a single drill bit, when in compared to a regular hand drill, the drill bit would've broken a long time ago. The drill press comes assembled out of the box, except for the base and handle, so it's not like you'll be wasting days assembling it like a CNC machine. Up and running in less than 5 minutes!
My favorite thing about the drill press is that it's small, compact, and super lightweight since it's made mostly out of aluminum. This is important for me because I have to lift it out of my portable tool cart every time I want to use it. Regular drill presses are very heavy and would be a pain to lift every time. It also comes with a 13mm chuck that feels really solid. A big advantage of this drill press over others is the depth it can drill. Many mini drill presses can barely drill a hole 20mm deep. This one? 3X as much!
I also like how to change the speed of the drill press: I don't have to mess with moving pulleys manually, which wastes a lot of time when in the middle of a project. The electronic speed control is very easy to use, but one downside is that the motor lacks torque at low speeds. You tend to have to turn the speed up to get more torque when the motor is bogged down. I also wish the motor wasn't as loud. But overall it's fine, I'm exaggerating.
How much does it bend during hard drilling? Other than what I wrote in the video, on camera it looked to me like it bent less that usual. Might be only me, but the combination of a sharp drill bit and being more careless about the speed of the drill press because I was focused on the video. I measured the bending/weight with a scale, but it lowers unequally when under a lot of weight, A while back I had to drill 25mm wide ( I think) holes in thick steel, the drill press did manage to do it but it did bend more and did bog down, hole saws require A LOT of torque!
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What is the largest drill bit shank the chuck will hold?
Will it hold a 1/4", 3/8" or 1/2" drill bit?
I don't remember, I believe 13mm.
Hi, what is the outer diameter of the vertical pillar? I may need to have a little more height room for my curent needs so I may need to replace the pillar with a longer one
I'm not sure, I believe around 35mm if that helps.
Question: Great review! I have a very small leather shop. The size of this would be perfect. I would like to drill sewing holes for knives sheaths. The leather can reach 3/4 of an inch thick. I need to make holes 5/64 of an inch (1 to 2 mm). The holes would be 4mm apart. Could this drill handle something like that? Thank you.
Thanks. It would drill through it easily. Two questions though since I'm just curious, why is the leather so thick and what bits do you use to drill the leather?
@@Yonatan24 At the top of a knife blade, a part that is called the choil, the blade gets kind of thick. so I have to build a wedge out of leather to compensate for the incline. When I use 10 oz leather on a sheath it can get kind of thick because the top and bottom and wedge is 10oz leather. I have never used a bit to drill this yet. I use a leather awl. I first make holes with my leather chisel but it is not long enough so then I use the awl. A drill press would be much faster. I just added a video to my channel of me making a sheath, check it out if you like, Thank you for the info and I will make a video of using the drill press to see if it is a better choice for knife sheath making. In any case I could sure use one of these. Perfect size for my room. Plus you have another subscriber. :)
Nice demo, but I would advice against using it for drum sanding like that. Use an old drilling machine for that. Applying pressure from side is the worst thing you can do with a drill press, as it may cause internal wear and result in vibrations.
Agreed. It doesn't work well for it anyway. I have a flex shaft rotary tool that works very well.
So one could conclude it would be bad on a hand drill? I use my cordless drill for sooo much more than drilling.
@@nateb4543 Me too, but drill presses are more expensive and you want them steadier than regular drill machine.
MINIQ is a DIY oriented brand in China. Those mini drill presses are only for very light work. If you need a portable drill press, I would look into a magnetic drill press.
Do you have one? Those small magnetic base drills would be better in every way, except for the price and their almost non existent throat depth.
Most cost $500-1500, but Mophorn has several that are significantly cheaper. Definitely worth a closer look. www.amazon.com/Mophorn-Magnetic-Diameter-Drilling-Portable/dp/B07M9Y3JCH
Good demonstration of a cheap drill press, like the fact its like weight, im looking for a small one and have seen this on ali express for about 60 euros so might treat myself, fancy a small one on the end of my bench in my inside workshop save me going to the garage all the time by the look of it! Thanks for the video Good job.
Thanks! What are you planning to use it for?
@@Yonatan24 just to keep it on the side of a jewellery bench in my house workshop for the odd small hole that needs drilling in wood or brass, copper , ali etc nothing strenuous I have a big 2 metre 3 phase drill press in the garage for the thick stuff.
@@sitgesvillaapartmentneilsc7924 The main problem with this drill press is the motor, it's not very strong, and extremely loud at high speeds. So maybe for jewelry a Dremel drill press could be better. Just an idea. It obviously depends on what you want to drill.
This is called demonstration.
Thanks
What size is the chuck? And can it be changed?
13mm / 1/2". I don't know. It's probably a standard chuck.
i want to order this kind of drill
but i have sad experience with banggood i ordered item from this banggood last february 2019 they remitted right away from my credit card
but now is may i track my order
miracluosly all my files from banggood are gone i dont know why
until now i dont know what happen to my order from banggood but its paid already?????
I really don't know how I can help with the Banggood situation (I bought this drill press on eBay, and they have excellent customer service), did you pay for it with Paypal? If so, you might be able to contact Paypal to help get your money back.
Where do you live? Shipping can take a while from China sometimes.
Here's the link to the one I bought: rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&toolid=11800&pub=5575225154&campid=5337958430&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F163109071877%3FssPageName%3DSTRK%253AMESINDXX%253AIT%26_trksid%3Dp3984.m1436.l2649%26ul_noapp%3Dtrue
Great video. The base drilling was clever. "let's see a 6 foot floor mounted drill do this".
Thanks! I think I would normally get 2 long piece of wood and use them to clamp the drill press down to the table, but even my feet work.
You could clamp it to anything, even a bike and drill into the frame!
*Sure, no problem, I'm just waiting for three more friends... To help lift it into my workbench, no problem man!*
Thought I would sub and see what you do here to get some perspective for the posts I see on John Heisz's videos. Only watched one video so far but I will most likely look at some more.
Awesome, glad to have you here! :)
Is it not possible to swivel the drill 180 degrees around the pole to reach your mark ?
I can swivel it, but it wouldn't help in this instance because drill press column slides into the base if you know what I mean. Kinda hard to explain it..
If you have a drill bit that for some reason won't fit through the hole in the base then it would help :)
I'm not sure how to explain it but since the column is held in the base, swiveling the drill press so the table is behind the drill press and drilling straight down is possible, but it wouldn't help in this situation because it would mean that there would still be space between the wood and the column, because of how it's mounted in the base/table.
I am considering buying one myself. The only problem for me is that I need to drill holes at precise points, like I first mark where the hole has to be and then I drill. I see that this one flexes as you show at minute 3:00! Does it do that only on iron surfaces, or also on wooden surfaces? Wood and lead are the only material I work with..so, pretty soft materials.
May you give me your opinion?
It really depends how large the holes are and how often you want to use it. This isn't a heavy duty drill press. I use every few weeks and it's fine. But if you want to use it on a daily basis, I would get a proper drill press.
@@Yonatan24 Thank you for the prompt answer. The size of holes I need are between 8 and 13mm. I need the drilling bits to make holes exactly at the desired marked points. I would use it maybe once every 4 months or something like that. Not often.
May you tell me your thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
In terms of accuracy I think you would be fine, drilling large holes in lead might be harder because the motor isn't very strong, but it really depends. But it can drill through wood like that easily.
I would go for it, depending on how much other drill presses cost, there may be better ones I'm unaware of for a similar price. The stuff I use it for is much harder :)
What do you use lead for BTW?
@@Yonatan24 Thank you! I was thinking on this drilling press because of its unique low weight. I need to travel with it in airplanes and i need a kit (including the drilling press) to be max 23kg. I am a piano technician and I do a lot of "piano action rebalancing and touch improvements". Piano actions use lead to increase weight in piano keys.
Is there a 110VAC version of this drill press?
Sorry I missed your comment. There were at the time but I don't see them anymore on eBay. Plenty of 200v ones,. though.
The cam clamps is a really good solution
I like that it's quick to adjust.
How do purchased
I bought mine on eBay (affiliate link): ebay.us/I5Zalz
Or Amazon: amzn.to/44VregS
From where can we get it how much price
Here's an affiliate link to it on Amazon: amzn.to/44VregS
I need to drill 1mm hole in a 3mm wide copper bar. Wanted to get this drill press but after your review I'll pass
Actually I think it could do that easily and very well.
I used to have the same vise as you until I got a 5" Wilton bullet.
I wish I had one, those are pretty nice.
I like this cheap vise, except that if you clamp something only on side, the vise will wedge itself, lock, and spring back if you try to open it.
@@Yonatan24 That vise does not have much precision in the slide (you can tell as it is not machined) so that is probably why. If you want a cheap vise that is still good try the Yost forged steel line. It costs much less than a Wilton with similar strength and precision. Alternatively, you could find a nice old vise and restore it. I like your videos by the way. I especially like how young people like you are building things instead of playing Fortnite or trying to pick up girls.
I have a few other smaller vises that are machined. Accuracy isn't really important though. I just wanted a large, cheap vise, that doesn't have 40% of the reviewers posting 1 star reviews, with pictures of their broken cast iron vise...
BTW I've made kits of all of my tools: kit.com/Yonatan24
@@Yonatan24 Seems good. I would never buy a new Wilton (mine was industrial surplus) as they are very expensive and they don't really care about their customers. Yost is good. Most super cheap vises are low quality.
Where to buy
I put a link in the description
you use only one bike clamp?
I'd replace both if I could.
Maybe applying lubricant to the drill bits and the aluminum
I use regular motor oil on steel, but with aluminum it's usually fine, a sharp drill bit does the work!
@@Yonatan24 Ok, cool!
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It can drill steel
your very smart. Way to go!
please dont' barehand the workpiece with spade bits, they can do a lot of damage quickly.
a $9 drill press clamp will screw into the slot and hold stuff down to spare your hand
I'm trying to come up with something simple that can be adjusted easily.
I don't think I did anything particularly dangerous in this video though, in my experience spade bits don't tend to catch, but step bits do.
I'm pretty sure I bent my drill press table when clamping something to it once...
Using gloves on a drill press is very dangerous, ask me how I know.
Using gloves on the bench grinder is very dangerous, as me how I know! :)
@@Yonatan24 Oh-ho, but I can tell you not using gloves on the bench grinder is *bloody* fun!
@@rrs_13 I'm pretty sure I had a glove get stuck in a bench grinder once
В конце, просто надо было перевернуть в другую сторону столешницу
Hi! Long time no talk!
Hey! What's up? Have you been working on something interesting? I've been trying to film a few videos but it's either so hot or raining outside! Need to get to work!! :)
Yonatan24 not to interesting yet, but i did join a frc robotics team! And i had bought a new weller soldering iron today to replace my cheapo 5 buck iron. I am making a piezo microphone right now!
Nice, is it one of those variable temperature ones? Cool! I'm busy collecting a bunch of scrap wood, I'm going to try to make a new woodworking workbench because the one I have now isn't rigid enough and keeps rocking back and forth.
Also I might have a (de)soldering video coming soon, I've been saving old circuit boards from stuff I've taken apart (probably 5-10 pounds!) for about a year now, and I want to see how many components I can get from them.
Is the piezo mic like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_microphone ?
I've never heard of these
Yonatan24 not variable temp but it does have leds. And yes the piezo mic is like that. There used for guitar pickups and other stuff such as troat mics. They pick up vibrations and translate them to sound
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All that jibber jabber takes away from the product. 😀
it's amazing to see how a german company in europe sells the same thing ( with better quality) at half the price of chinese stuff
Link?
there's no link it is sold in mini malls ..named lild , but if you are in us i don't think u have them there. actually they sell a lot of powertools not just that , at very low prices under the brand parkside