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skywizzard
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Zach, I got the 16 inch floor model about 6 months ago. It was on sale and I had a 20% coupon. I think the total was about $160. A great investment. It is certainly not a $400 press, but for my needs I could not ask more from a press.
jleiwig
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It depends on what you are asking of the tool. Harbor Freight gets a bad rep from professionals who buy their tools, use it 100xs a day and it dies within a week. Either that or they expect it to hold .0001 tolerances like a machine costing 20x the price would.
As a hobbiest with little money, I have found to be most things acceptable. You of course have to pick and choose which things are worthwhile. I have heard nothing but good things about their drill presses, bandsaws, and most of their metal working equipment. One way to check is to cross reference with Grizzly. If Grizzly also sells it, then it's probably a decent quality item and worth your money if your not going to abuse it for 100s of hours a day.
Get the HF and relax. I too had a 20% coupon and considered the Harbor Freight, but instead I spent over $500 plus shipping on a green DP from a well known manufacturer here and even with quality belt replacements and repeated tries by technical support and replacement parts, it still shakes like an old jalopy.
PenPal
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Wheaties
I can only guess the same Taiwan, Mainland chinese manufacturers sell to our shores as yours. The first thing I did with my drill press was replace the bearings with decent ones and replace the motor with a one HP, all problems wait all but one solved the next problem was the chuck dropping out cured with a new morse taper chuck holder and a drawbar fitted having reamed the morse taper first.
Okay so the cost was small for the bearings, I had a spare motor and the shaft was about 14 dollars , the drawbar threaded rod cheap as, I repeat the result has lasted me well for several years now trouble free..
Have success regards Peter.
I can only guess the same Taiwan, Mainland chinese manufacturers sell to our shores as yours. The first thing I did with my drill press was replace the bearings with decent ones and replace the motor with a one HP, all problems wait all but one solved the next problem was the chuck dropping out cured with a new morse taper chuck holder and a drawbar fitted having reamed the morse taper first.
Okay so the cost was small for the bearings, I had a spare motor and the shaft was about 14 dollars , the drawbar threaded rod cheap as, I repeat the result has lasted me well for several years now trouble free..
Have success regards Peter.