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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. |
You could do that but then you'd be getting an inferior planer. The DW735 has consistently been the most popular lunchbox planers on the woodworking forums. Sending it back would be cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you really liked that car you wouldn't buy something inferior to it just because you didn't want to spend a few bucks more for the spare, would you?
I do agree that some sort supplemental infeed and outfeed support is needed for the Dewalt and it's really easy to make something that works very well. Or buying the $50 Dewalt tables is another option. I built a rolling cart with drawers and folding infeed and outfeed tables. It works very well. there are lots of ideas and plans available if you do a little searching on the internet. I used some folding shelf brackets that I got from Home Depot. To get the tables level I shimmed the brackets. I made the tables longer than I probably need them so if I were to do it again I'd make them a little shorter. I could just cut them off I suppose but I do like to be able to place a longer board onto the infeed table, get it started into the planer and then not have to hold it like you would with the standard length tables. I think mine are about 3' long each. Keep the planer. Either buy the extra tables or build your own. You won't regret it.
Bruce