Holes & mortises · review
A floor-standing pillar drill 1.63 m (5 ft) tall — and one that needs a three-phase supply most workshops do not have.
The end of it A real workshop machine, and one whose supply requirement rules it out for most home shops. Read the voltage first.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
600 W, 1,630 mm (64.2 in) overall height, 400 V three-phase supply. Part number SB4116HN_400V.
Everything else about this machine is ordinary and sound. The 400 V requirement is what decides whether you can own it, and it appears only as a suffix on a part number — not in the title, not in a features list.
A domestic European supply is single-phase 230 V. Running a 400 V machine from it requires a phase converter or a supply upgrade, both of which cost real money and neither of which is mentioned anywhere near the buy button.
We are leading with it because a reader who misses it buys a machine that cannot be switched on.
Then this is a genuine floor-standing pillar drill at €398 in Germany, from a maker of workshop machinery rather than consumer tools, and it is good value at that.
No such listing: the American Amazon shop answers the reference with a search box rather than a page.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Motor | 600 W |
|---|---|
| Overall height | 1,630 mm (64.2 in) |
| Supply | 400 V three-phase |
| Part number | SB4116HN_400V |
| Amazon reference | B01FL81D2E (identical on 5 markets) |
| EAN | 9120058371516 |
Not from a standard domestic socket. You need a three-phase supply, which most homes in Europe do not have, or a converter — which adds cost and complexity. Check this before anything else; it is the specification that disqualifies the machine for most readers of this page, and it is buried at the end of a part number.
Height under the spindle. A bench machine sits on a bench, so a tall workpiece has nowhere to go; a floor machine has a meter and a half of column, and the table drops down the column to make room. For drilling into the end of a long board it is the only practical option.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.4/ 10
A real workshop machine, and one whose supply requirement rules it out for most home shops. Read the voltage first.
A workshop that already has a three-phase supply and needs floor-standing capacity
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
710 W · 90 mm (3.54 in) quill · 40 mm (1.57 in) in wood
The longest stroke of the European bench drills here — 90 mm (3.54 in) — and the only one that states its capacity in wood as well as steel.
Best for: Deep holes and large Forstner bits — the work the cheaper presses cannot reach
8 in · 620–3,100 rpm in 5 steps · 150 mm (5.91 in) quill claimed · 2.5 A
An eight-inch press claiming five point nine inches of spindle travel — more than the floor-standing machine on this shelf.
Best for: The smallest sum that puts a press with a tilting table on a bench — with the travel figure confirmed first
≈ $97
450 W · 5 speeds to 2,650 min⁻¹ · 50 mm (1.97 in) depth · €115
A €115 pillar drill that publishes its depth, its speed range and its chuck capacity — and states all three plainly.
Best for: Shelf pins, dowels and hardware holes — accurate shallow drilling on a small bench
