WAHL Stainless Steel 9818–116 trimmer review: steel body and sub-fast charging

The new Stain­less Steel mod­el is inter­est­ing for its design — the body is made of stain­less steel, which gives the device a fash­ion­able style, and rich equip­ment. The kit comes with four plas­tic attach­ments for trim­ming beards and mus­tach­es, as well as two mechan­i­cal attach­ments — one for sub-close shaves and cre­at­ing trendy grooves in short hair­cuts, and the sec­ond for trim­ming hair in the nose and ears.

The kit con­tains a small comb, a brush for clean­ing the machine and oil for lubri­cat­ing the mov­ing blades of the main trim­mer head. It is con­ve­nient that the set includes a fab­ric bag-case with com­part­ments for small items and a stain­less steel trim­mer stand.

Appearance and ergonomics

As we have already said, the trim­mer has a thin body made of styl­ish­ly brushed stain­less steel, which prac­ti­cal­ly does not weigh down the device. The top and bot­tom parts are pol­ished to a mir­ror sur­face, and the laser engraved com­pa­ny logo is locat­ed at the bot­tom of the device.

The pow­er but­ton is locat­ed in the upper front part of the trim­mer and is com­bined with a blue LED back­light. An excel­lent solu­tion that will not allow you to acci­den­tal­ly press it dur­ing shav­ing. The LED flash­es while the trim­mer is in oper­a­tion and stays on while charg­ing. The pow­er plug is con­nect­ed at the bot­tom of the device. The con­nec­tor is ini­tial­ly closed with a red plug and while it is plugged in, the machine will not turn on — a kind of pro­tec­tion against acci­den­tal press­ing on the road in a case.

The same fac­tor also works when the pow­er sup­ply is con­nect­ed to the trim­mer — dur­ing the charg­ing process, it will not work to turn on and use the machine. This means that the device can only be used when the plug is pulled out of the slot and the pow­er sup­ply is turned off.

The trim­mer fits com­fort­ably in the hand, does not slip and allows you to com­fort­ably trim the beard, whiskey and any oth­er, includ­ing hard-to-reach areas of the body.

Trimmer at work

The machine is ful­ly charged in approx­i­mate­ly 1 hour, after which it will run for approx­i­mate­ly 4 hours, depend­ing on the attach­ments used. The charg­er will not start the machine. If it turned out to be dis­charged, and you urgent­ly need to trim your mus­tache or beard, just con­nect the trim­mer to the charg­er for 1 minute and this charge will last for about 5 min­utes of work.

The main blade unit is designed for cut­ting and trim­ming hair­cuts on the head, beard and mus­tache. The machine works qui­et­ly, the sound is quite com­fort­able. The knives are sharp­ened per­fect­ly, the cut­ting is not notice­able, so you need to be care­ful and accu­rate when trim­ming your hair.

Removal of noz­zles is car­ried out by sim­ple snap­ping off when press­ing on the work­ing part. How­ev­er, instal­la­tion can cause some dif­fi­cul­ties due to the fact that you need to accu­rate­ly align the spe­cial guides and clamps.

When installing the sub close shav­ing unit — trim­ming the beard under the chin and mak­ing artis­tic grooves, the sound of the trim­mer oper­a­tion changes and becomes loud­er. It will not be pos­si­ble to shave smooth­ly with this noz­zle — the bris­tles remain approx­i­mate­ly the same as after day­time unshaven. But with this noz­zle, you can safe­ly shave your armpits and inti­mate places, while you will not get irri­ta­tion.

The sec­ond mechan­i­cal noz­zle for shav­ing the hairs in the nose and ears is much qui­eter and has proved to be excel­lent. The only thing is, per­haps its length will not be enough for some­one.

Both noz­zles do not require dis­as­sem­bly, so to clean them, you will have to shake and blow them well.

Three plas­tic attach­ments can be use­ful for cut­ting beards and mus­tach­es, as well as trim­ming hair­cuts on the head for dif­fer­ent hair lengths. One of the noz­zles has a height reg­u­la­tor — 4 posi­tions from 2 to 12 mm, which can be very valu­able for some­one.

Test results:

Trim­mer WAHL Stain­less Steel 9818–116 liked the nice design and stain­less steel body. The machine oper­ates rel­a­tive­ly qui­et­ly, with lit­tle or no trans­mis­sion of vibra­tion to the hand. I liked the fast charg­ing and very accu­rate sharp­en­ing and jew­el­ry work of the main knife block.

The addi­tion­al mechan­i­cal blocks are also very con­ve­nient to use: one for safe trim­ming of nar­row places and the sec­ond one for shav­ing the hair in the nose and ears. The only thing is that they work a lit­tle nois­i­er than the main unit. Fast charg­ing saves a lot, but I would like to work from the net­work, which is not pro­vid­ed for in this mod­el.

A nice addi­tion to the kit is a design­er stand made of stain­less steel and a bag with com­part­ments — it is con­ve­nient to store noz­zles and take the machine with you on the road.

Trim­mer WAHL Stain­less Steel 9818–116 Stain­less Steel 9818–116 is already on sale at a price of about 10,800 rubles.

Specifications:

A pho­to: Andrey Kireev