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Originally Posted by harrysin In my usual humble opinion, a planer sold without in and out-feed tables is like buying a car without a spare wheel, they are both essential items. I would seriously consider sending it back and exchanging it for a Delta. |
reminds me of my first car. technically it came with a spare but the bolt pattern on my spare was different than my car. wasn't a very fun day finding that out the hard way. I think the analogy is kind of flawed though because lots of people do build their own planer table and nobody I know has ever built a spare tire instead of buying one.
I did quite a bit of reading on the planers before I decided on one. From what I've read the dewalt a top notch planer. I don't have a dust collection unit yet and was thinking about hooking up the shop vac to it and the built in blower sounded like something that might be beneficial to my situation right now. the delta doesn't have that to my knowledge. also the dewalt has a 50 buck mail in rebate right now so that helped my decision a little also.
thanks for the links bob. one of the articles I found in the thread you linked showed how to do tapered legs with the planer. since I don't have a table or band saw yet that was something very good to know!
I want to build a stand with locking casters of some kind for my planer so that I can easily roll it outside and do most of my planing there since I don't have dust collection yet. I'm leaning towards not getting the dewalt tables and just building my own at the same time I'm building the stand.
I think I'm going to just make the stand longer so that it supports the custom planer table for the full length of it so thats its nice and sturdy. I had thought about drop leaf type wings but I think making the leafs be sturdy enough in the up position might be hard and could make snipe more likely if they have any give to them.
how long do you think the planer tables should come out from each side of the planer?