Mag Drill Review - Vevor 

Thanks Matty, one of those and a Vevor metal bandsaw have been on my wants list for a while now. Sadly the funds don’t keep pace with my list of wants yet, but who knows, maybe one day. Keep up the good work.

Annular cutters cut from the inside out which is why the cutting fluid system is designed to put fluid inside. The center pin locates the hole, blocks fluid flow until it is pushed against the surface, meters the fluid flow while cutting, ejects the slug and it blocks the fluid flow when the slug is ejected.

love that the add page states that the packaging is strong so you don't get any damage lol

Excellent description mate 🎉

Thanks for a good honest review. Not something I will probably ever need but I worked for two years in a jig shop at Boeing and those mag drills were a life saver.

You know you are a successful RU-vidr when you get given free stuff. Well done.

Don't be shy of the review vids. We all have a choice if we want to watch them and they are really really useful. Thanks.

Great review, honest and concise. Nice one!

Hi Matty. I recently bought the cheaper vevor sdt md40 mag drill, and also felt the revs were too high for the larger cutters. I ended up running a cheap potentiometer to let me reduce the rpm. The chuck also had visible runout. But overall happy with it. Great video as usual. Regards Rick.

Thanks for an honest review Matty. Like you I'm not a big fan of the majority of the reviews out there. So it's refreshing to see one that shows the warts as well as the good features...

Hi mate! Thats a good review you did, love it how you go straight to the point without any dramas. I liked how you checked the runout with a dial indicator, never thought to do that on a mag drill. I have used big metabo mag drills in the past alot of times, and they chewed a 32mm hole through 20mm plate without a question. Have also used them to do 10mm holes on a vertical box section on a potato harvester. Just as you pointed out, take your time and go easy on her, its not a race. Plus, a generous amount of lube. Although, I’d go for a variable speed control machine, so you can alter the cutting speed. Cheers mate!

Thanks, Matty. Like a critical review from a feller who uses the thing, me. Even if I'm never going to get me that thing, a proper and useful review really matters. You da bomb, Matty.

I appreciate your standards Matty,a honest point of view goes a long ways! I hope that she works out in the selection of your arsenal to complete your tasks as them come into your workshop! Wish me luck todays the day for my MRI on my hips and low back under general anesthesia. Claustrophobic as hell had to wait a year to get this done.Thanks yer sub from Oregon 😁🙏

Hey Matty, sounded like an honest review to me. My thoughts would be "If you don't feel comfortable doing something, then don't."

A very fair review of it Matty, you're one of those guys like John ( doubleboost) who tells the unvarnished truth. He says " if it's shite, I'll say it's shite" lol Stan from Bar-Z did a review on the set of annular cutters from Vevor a few days ago, unless it was an older review but he too was impressed with them. Cheers from the UK mate. Sam

I was actually thinking about buying one of these, so thanks for the review.

I keep on looking at those vevor mag drills, a yellow one and a red one. This looks new, nice work on the review👍👌🇦🇺

Great review Matty. A very attractive tool, but a bit too heavy weight for my little workshop. What I would like is an old English made bench drill. Meddings or similar. One day! Cheers Nobby

Hi Matty, looks like Vevor is cornering the market worldwide. Just checked up here in Philippines and many models available and some with variable speed, handy for larger holes up to 2 inch. Unfortunately i dont have the use for one but have used them where i worked. The safety strap is mandatory working at heights if you lose power.

At least you had a company that deals in machine tools wanting to talk with you, most of the stuff I get solicited is sketchy at best, lol. Don't blame you for picking one up as we have a Ridgid unit at work, I was astounded at how easily one can poke a mounting hole in a truck frame with one!

Very good a nd to the point. I have thought of buying one, but as a novice fabricator, it would be like other tools and see on a shelf.

Nice little item, height range doesn't look too bad, my experience of magnetic drill presses are huge air and electric ones, with a swivel plate to assist positioning, ive got one that weighs 75 kg. Thanks for sharing

I agree with your selection of what you are willing to review. And I like your review on this. I'm not in the market for a mag drill, but it's interesting to see what's out there. I was surprised that it came with a set of annular cutters!!! That seems like a serious bonus. I wonder if the chuck is outsourced and just fell through QC ... Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

Great video Just the vid I was looking for. Hang in there sir. We are sending prayers from Texas.

Hello Matty.....those Vevor drills look pretty nice.....cheers from Florida, US, Paul

, thanks Marty have been looking at those and made the decision for what I do it would work cheers from the mid north coast of NSW

Very cool, I have been thinking about one of these Vevor drills for a while, much cheaper than what they otherwise cost.

Good to know thank you

G'day Matty, I like the reviews mate, Vevor make some ok stuff too 👍

G'day Matty. That Magdrill really looks the part, & those Annular Cutters work really well. Going through 1" plate & no discolouration. With the Keyed drill chuck, if you made a new arbour, will that bring it back to "0"

Let's be real, for a fab shop at that price it's looking really really good

I've been thinking about getting one of these seen a couple reviews where people complain about the drill chuck having to much run out and taking up to much space one thing I plan to do when I get one is if you need to accurately hold twist drills or even taps or endmills etc if you need a flat bottom hole or to work on a broken bolt etc is you could make a small er 16 or larger if needed holder with a weldon shank that way you can hold just about anything you need besides just annular cutters obviously you can't mill but you could use an endmill to plunge mill slots make flat holes work on broken bolts etc and can get small collet sets cheap enough now that should be plenty accurate enough to hold things for a mag drill 👍👍👍

Hi Matty. Interesting review. That chuck run out is in line with other reviews I've seen of this unit. Apart from that it seems like a capable unit. Let's know if the error can be easily corrected. Cheers Rob

good video matty

Thx Matty.

I will be using some hair care products in an up coming video ! I must check the rpm of our one at work , it looks the same one as Kurtis has . 👍

I don't have access to Vevor tools here in Thailand, shame that is, because they seem to have some pretty reasonable products for the price. I'm a little surprised that that thing isn't variable speed, which would seem to me to make it more useful. 👍

Looking at the picture on their webb site, the arbour screws (left-hand) into the back of the chuck. Maybe needs a better (Matty) quality arbour made for it. 810 revs would be a bit high for me also, but if they have proven it, then so be it!

PS, be interesting to see if another drill chuck on the supplied arbour is good, or if it was the arbour for the chuck that was crook.

They're very handy, you will use it a lot.

Well done mate

That's a bargain. nice video Matty

nice one Matty 👍👍👍👍👍👍 kev (UK)

That strap is an absolute must if the matnet is electric in my opinion.That drill in Canada sells for 251.00 plus taxes and environmental surcharge so about $ 285.00 I would think for the price you get what you pay for.

The terrible runout is due to the bearings. I bought a Vevor mag drill in December, which I tore apart because it had TERRIBLE runout. Almost an 1/8 inch of runout! So I tore it apart, thinking the quill shaft had to be bent, and that I would straighten it. But once I got it apart, which was very difficult, I had to drill out a square key that had been peened in place, I found that the shaft was perfect. (.001 total runout) So I ordered new (NSK brand) bearings that the shaft rides in, a small upper and a larger lower. I received the bearings last week and installed them yesterday. It looks way better to the naked eye, put the indicator on it, and it now has .007 total runout. PLENTY good enough for an annular cutter. So FYI: it's the cheap Chinese bearings causing the horrible runout.

Good review…koko

Not bad. I’d prefer a variable speed model. Even Jacobs plain bearing drill chucks are rated for 0.003” concentricity. So while this one is pretty bad, you’re not going to get a chuck to 0.0005”. Even their ball bearing models are rated at 0.0016”. Drill chucks aren’t precision drilling devices. And yes, that doesn’t excuse this one.

I think reviews are good, especially when carried out by guys like yourself who whats what and gives a genuine opinion.

It appears that the arbor isn't true in that chuck. Does the chuck have a threaded arbor or a tapered arbor. It will be interesting to see if Vevor will replace the arbor or perhaps you could machine a new one or rework that one. You could put the largest piece of drill rod that would fit in the chuck to hold it in the lathe to turn the arbor. Perhaps weld it up so you could turn it to the correct size and it wouldn't have as much runout.

good show Matt,, is it chinesium???

What kind of cutting lube were you using?

Nicely done Matty. Pity it doesn't have a speed control. The rails stated on link are Titanium, Magnisum, Alloy. That drill/arbor is crap for sure.

I have a different brand mag drill and I think you’re taking it too easy on it it seems counterintuitive but I found that it cuts better and doesn’t damage anything if you really work it hard I basically try to cut holes as fast as it can I can’t stall the motor and there seems to be no damage done to the cutters. The only time I’ve broken a cutter is if I don’t have the magnet stuck good. So I know it feels wrong but try to apply more pressure with those big cutters and you’ll have better luck or I have at least.

Nice tool.

Seems that vevor drill chucks are a bit rubbish. I have 2 in a drawer which came with a drill press and one that was given to me for free. Both have similar issues to the one you have there

On that drill chuck, all you have to do is pick a drill biIt that 1/8 smaller than the hole you're looking for😂

Looks like a tough machine Matty. I did a series on fitting a Vevor Diesel heater in the shop & it was very good & came with a brilliant user manual. Regards. Steve.

Matty - The problem with the driil chuck is obvious. Let me start here. The Quill I.D. of the Mag Drill runs true. All tools are held by the Quill I.D. If a tool runs out . The tool is eccentric. The Drill Chuck is obviously eccentric from it's shank. Chuck up a piece of stock in a Lathe. Turn a Jacobs Taper. It will be running dead true. Put your Drill Chuck on the taper and clock it. Jim

Needs variable speed.

Shame about the chuck. They probably just chucked it in the box without checking it. [Pun definitely intentional]. Would probably be an OK project to take say a Jacobs chuck and make a stub-arbour to that?

People have to do tool reviews, and I’d rather it be you cause you will tell us if it’s crap , I hate buying something I don’t know anything about.

nothing better than free shit cheers mate 👍

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Throw that 60 mm cutter in and give it a burl. What we you Matty, a man or a moose.😅

The cheep China boxes that company’s use to ship are weak garbage. It’s not the shippers.

Hair care? how about some quality polish review video?....I'll see myself out 🥴

Tell you what if you reckon it's OK for a shed fiddler, I'll take you word for it...