Clippers. Any good ?

I can't comment on those clippers however it may be better value for you to buy a pair of used well known brand clippers i.e. Wolseley, Lister, Liverman etc from ebay. There are plenty for sale & you can find some that have had very little use, i.e. just a couple of clips a year by a private owner.
 
They look suspiciously similar to clippers I bought through an offer in Horse magazine last year.

Mega heavy and noisy. Did not clip anything but a clean fine coat and made a mess of that. Used 3 times and gave up. Don't bother.
 
I can confirm the two posts above are part of a general trend. These are a copy of a Heineger Handy and are the best example I know of why you should buy a well known brand rather than a copy made in Timbuktu.

They get noisy quickly because the crank spindle must be made of soft metal and wears very quickly in the crank spindle sleeve. You screw the sleeve into the head. On a Heineger Handy, pretty much at maximum torque the hole for lubricating the spindle lines up perfectly in the head but on this clipper the holes do not line up so you have to have the sleeve loose if you want to be able to lubricate the crank spindle.

There is a gear in the head that is half plastic and half (brass I think), on the Heineger this is never a problem but with this machine the brass separates from the plastic leading to a rattle at best and stripped gear at worst.

The laminated springs are made of who knows what and pretty much always need replacing due to wear and tear.

The bearings are made by who knows who on these things which means they sometimes seize, which ultimately burns out the motor which is again made who knows where to who knows what standard. All heineger clippers are made in switzerland and the motors last a LONG time. The owner would generally not notice the bearings starting to seize because the clipper can get hot and noisy because of any of the above common faults where as on a Heineger you would know something is wrong because every other part still runs smooth and quiet - just like the day it left the factory.

Another issue is manufacturing tolerances. I do not know what precision Heineger or these chinese manufacturers work to but another thing that is apparent is that the precision is not as high in these cheap things.

The above goes for the same clipper branded as 'Showmaster', 'Dextella', 'Huntmaster', 'Masterclip Ranger', 'GTS' and who knows whatever else.

One can only imagine that these things come from a well known international sourcing site - alibaba.com

www.alibaba.com/product-gs/390524269/Horse_clipper_GTS_2004.html

Buy enough of these things and the manufacturer will put your own branding on them.

At £150 these things are not usually worth repairing. We will not fit mickey mouse parts and therefor only fit Heineger parts to them but Heineger parts quickly add up to more than the price this clipper deserves.
 
I bought some Wahl Artiko pretensioned clippers 2 winters ago for £120 (inc del and extra blades). I think they are fantastic! They are quiet, lightweight and have 2 speed settings - one for doing lines/faces and second for going over the body. They do 8 full clips every winter then I send the blades away to be sharpened :)
 
I too would say spend a little extra and go for a trusted named brand. If only getting little use they will last years. I paid £150 for my first ever set clippers from eBay and they were liveryman. This year decided to treat myself to a brand new pair as clipping for other people and has been the best £200 I've spent.

Would deff recommend looking at eBay. Take a look at these http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?sbk=1&nav=SEARCH&itemId=121227199257
 
I have livery man harmony, master clip trimmers and masterclip hunters

The masterclips are fab, don't be put off them by 1 post on here. Mine do a grand job :-).
 
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