Machine rebuild time - options...

[Jonathan]

Yes pillow drills can be expensive

Mine was about £50 from Tesco, probably 8 years ago now. It's not particularly fast if you want to start drilling big holes in steel/aluminium, but it does work and for <=6mm it's perfectly good. Now I use the milling machine for any 'significant' drilling.

I'm amused by your spelling of pillar drill.

Also with the money saved you could probably buy a cheap stick welder and learn a new skill along the way.! . .:dance:

Mine was just a cheapo 160A welder from Aldi. Think it was £35, might have been less.