Enco is selling a Wilton 15" Bench Drill Press for $500. Is this a good buy
or is it overpriced?

TIA
Norm

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:21:00 GMT, "Norm Dresner"
wrote:

Enco is selling a Wilton 15" Bench Drill Press for $500. Is this a good buy
or is it overpriced?

TIA
Norm

Wilton is now part of WMH group, which also includes Jet. It's
probably a pretty good-quality import. I have a Wilton vertical
bandsaw that I have been quite satisfied with. It's no Do-All, but
at 1/3 the price I didn't expect it to be.

Don Foreman wrote:

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:21:00 GMT, "Norm Dresner"
wrote:


Enco is selling a Wilton 15" Bench Drill Press for $500. Is this a good buy
or is it overpriced?

TIA
Norm


Wilton is now part of WMH group, which also includes Jet. It's
probably a pretty good-quality import. I have a Wilton vertical
bandsaw that I have been quite satisfied with. It's no Do-All, but
at 1/3 the price I didn't expect it to be.

$500 for an import 15" DP? My take is that's way too high. I figure a good price
on a clean (like-new) Wilton or Jet 17" drill press is $275-ish.

There is quite a difference between 17" and 15".

GWE

Wilton at one time used to make some pretty darn good stuff, however
now most of what they make mimicks the import crap..........I looked
at a Wilton metal cutting bandsaw a few years back, and it IMHO was
cheezy for the asking price.....Thats what prompted me to make my own
20" 3-wheel metal cutting bandsaw which is as good as any Wilton or
Jet IMHO. Other than a crapped out speed control which I had bought
used, its worked like a champ, has never had any problems and its used
hard all the time. I do not know what DoAll or others could offer in
the way of improvements or doing it any better but if it works it
works.......but I still hate paying for junk .

Years back when the local HF opened up here I was in the market for a
drill press myself. I went through 3 HF floor models that had such
excessive runout and slop, and left a lot to be desired. Then I
stumbled on an old Delta, which is a real champ. We had a Wiolton DP,
as well as 3 Deltas of various sizes at work, and the Wilton was a
much better drill press than those newer Deltas were, but the Wilton
was also an older model so that probably has a lot to do with it.
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I had this drill press. Way overpriced for the it's level of quality.
I sold mine and got 17" floor model ShopFox for $270.
Same level of quality bigger machine. Wish I could spend $1000 on drill press and get a
decent machine not import crap



Norm Dresner wrote:
Enco is selling a Wilton 15" Bench Drill Press for $500. Is this a good buy
or is it overpriced?

TIA
Norm

Alex wrote:

I had this drill press. Way overpriced for the it's level of quality.
I sold mine and got 17" floor model ShopFox for $270.
Same level of quality bigger machine. Wish I could spend $1000 on drill
press and get a decent machine not import crap

For $1000 you can buy a used mill-drill, those aren't great mills but they make
great drill presses!

GWE