Meddings pillar drill saved from skip

[moodubs]

Hi Ive been contracting at a ceramic site for the past six months and part of my work was to put this lovely Meddings drill into a waste skip. The company allowed me to take it away for nothing, so shortly will be the renovation , I have already removed the fabricated guard and saved the bench it came on, updates soon

anyone else got any pillar drill links

 

[404]

Tell us more about how that "guard" works, or doesn't.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Looks like the guard is for dust extraction....

 

[moodubs]

the guard was fitted to prevent coolant spraying everywhere, the drill was used as a sort of milling machine with an x and y axis threaded feed attachment. I have now removed the guard and hopefully return it to its original colour

 

[Fretters]

Nice bit of kit, especially for nowt. Jammy ******.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Meddings will still supply parts for some of their older drills.

 

[moodubs]

any meddings drill built after the company moved to ivybridge devon can have any part obtained from stock, the people from meddings were most helpful. thanks to all of you for your advice

 

[CwazyWabbit]

I found them incredibly helpful with parts for my MB4 drill.