WEN 4206T 2.3-Amp 8-Inch 5-Speed Benchtop Drill Press

It doesn't woth the price

Wen 8 inch drill press 4206T. Came in heavy box with molded styrofoam. All wrapped in plastic. No missing or broken parts. No dings or chipped paint. All factory installed bolts, parts, etc were tight. Easy to put together. Bits checked out 90 deg to table. No wobble at all. Quite. The table slides up and down easily and holds tight. It would be next to impossible for it to slip after lock bolt is tightened. I tried a 2 inch hole saw at 2100 rpm and easily drilled through 1 inch pine. Need to slow down speed for hardwood or other materials. I owned fab shop for 40 years and had big drill presses. Got this for hobby and repair work around house. It is absolutely a well made little drill press. Dont know the limits yet, but plenty for most of us DIY. You need to use good quality sharp bits and hole saws with a drill press. Cheap wore out bits/saws just wont cut it. Dont use blade bits with the threads. Could get hurt if hangs up. Look, i dont know how they can produce this for a $100. You wont go wrong with this tool and price. I have a Wen air nailer, also great. Wen makes very good products for a good price.

Need to return due to faulty motor. It gets very hot after 20sec of running without load , even without the belt. Theres no resistance when turn the spindle with hand . If I would keep running it would definitely burned. Maybe better luck next time :)

Originally I did not want something this big or expensive. I want to drill through 15mm square tubing and thin steel plate. But as looked at reviews of smaller hobby drill presses for crafting perhaps or the ones that looked like a 1/2' drill built into a drill press frame, I came to realize that they all operate at a high rpm and the one that looks like the vertical 1/2" drill is quite noisy. So I reluctantly purchased this larger unit. It is built like a traditional drill press with a pully system for changing speeds. One notable plus; the substantial chuck is not quite full size and easily grips small drill bits, better that some hand drills that I have owned. Another big plus is that the drill is very, very quiet and smooth. Things I did not know before purchasing: very fine steel wool is needed to prep the tapered chuck before it is hammered into place (not a big deal). The drill press should be bolted down. For my uses I setup my Work-Mate on the balcony and have drilled a couple of holes in it to better suit the 1/2' bolts used to hold it down. Also, the drill press vise that was included with my unit at a price lower than the regular price of the drill, also needs to be bolted to the drill press' table. So I purchased the necessary bolts, nuts, washers to do all this, and now the whole setup for this takes 5 minutes. Up until now, I've used it for the purposes stated above, but today I gave it a bigger challenge: cutting ten 5/32" holes in 1/2" and 5/8" mild steel plates. I used a dab of cutting paste to lube the drill bit a couple of times for each hole. The cutting was easy and accurate, and the drill bit was cutting just as easy on the last hole as the first. I used the recommended pulley setup for this, 750 rpm. I bet the systems that operate at several times that speed would overheat the drill bits and themselves.....

Esta herramienta tiene un bonito diseño, así como la funcionalidad es excelente