Customer Reviews

Skil 45140 Drill Stand for Any 3/8-Inch Electric or Cordless Drill

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If you are looking to get around buying a real drill press this product will suit your needs only for small tasks. I would not recommend it for doing serious drilling. The clamping device that holds the drill in the press, doesn't hold the drill at a perfect 90 degrees without some tinkering. Also not all drill chasis are the same and it will hold on to each drill differently. In conclusion for twice as much you can buy a small bench top drill press that will suit your needs better.

Item is a piece of junk. I ruined several projects as this item cannot drill a straight up/down hole. It now sits under my work bench and I have ordered a heavy duty drill press which is what I should of done to begin with. Don't waste your hard earned money.

Most decent power drills have a 43mm shaft at the front to attach a handle for the left hand or to mount them in a drill stand (this is even true for Dremel-style rotary tools--there the entire body is often 43mm wide). Any decent drill stand has a 43mm mount, which allows the drill to be secured in a true right angle to the work piece. (An example would be the, admittedly pricey, Bosch BS450 drill stand.) Not so this contraption: Instead of the industry-standard 43mm it has some rounded oval that is supposed to hold the drill, but allows it to move around by several degrees.

The result will be less precision than if you simply put the work piece into a good machine vise and then use the power drill by hand--and quite likely a broken drill bit, a destroyed work piece, and with bad luck the broken drill bit injuring someone.

So far I always thought that Skil products were on the affordable side, but basically well-designed. This "drill stand", however, is an insult of the hapless buyer. Amazon would be well advised to remove it from its catalog.

The press worked okay. But the drill fits into a fixture and that fixture is a bit loose so the drill wobbles a few millimeters left-to-right. Otherwise, it worked well. But this loose drill mount make the whole thing be questionable for its value.

As several other reviewers have mentioned this is not the highest quality jig on the market.

However if you don't have the need to have a dedicated drill press and have the time and skill to tinker with fitting a drill to this one you can produce acceptable (but not excellent) results with this stand.

I have successfully used this drill stand to produce custom plugs for wood working projects as well as on a few light metal projects. The quality was not the best but it was better than if I had attempted to use the bits by hand.

This stand is perfect. Just what I was looking for. Also, fast service.

Ordered this item for a specific project and it it fit the job perfectly and has come in handy for several other projects.

Excellent for crafts and light handyman work. It's like adding an extra hand to help get the job done quickly.