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Subject: Re: Electronic Goldmine's mini drill press

From: "tda7000" <Tda7000@...>
Date: 2010-12-17

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" <jeff.heiss@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any experience with Electronic Goldmine's mini drill press? Do you think this would be useful for board drilling?
>
> http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G17382
>

I was going to purchase one of those but I read some reviews that they were terrible. Also the shop I was trying to buy it from kept dicking around and seemed not to want to sell it to me.

In the end I bought a Proxxon rotary tool and drill stand, and I am very happy! It cost a bit more but you can get faster speeds (up to 20k RPM) instead of the 8.6k RPM or so that these drill presses do.