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I ordered this several months ago (October 2020), but with covid ... and the Suez Canal jam ... and the cargo ships anchored offshore with no one to unload them, it FINALLY arrived eight months later.
"It is better to be lucky, than smart." My step-dad always used to say. So it was, with the planer arriving for pick up in Springfield, MO. at the GRIZZLY location. It just so happened that I had planned a trip up to Clever, MO. to visit with friends who drove in from CA. to visit their cute granddaughter. Clever is only 15 minutes away from Springfield, so when I got the call that the planer was in, I was smiling ear-to-ear! What luck, to drive up there only ONCE for the visit, and to pick up the machine! Boy, this sucker is HEAVY.
I also bought the SB1100 Dust Collector they had, from South Bend Tools. It is a nice machine, but the assembly instructions were written by a moron, and their "quality control" department is sorely lacking. They sent me ISE bolts with METRIC wrenches. They sent three Allen keys, but only one of them actually fit the set screws or the Allen head bolts. I added about two dozen washers. I guess a bag of washers is too much to add to a machine that sells for $850.00 😖 I also bought the rolling base for the machine.
The illustrations inside the SB1100 manual were drawn by someone who NEVER saw the machine, and I had to disassemble parts of it three times, to do steps that SHOULD have occurred five steps earlier, before other things were bolted together. VERY frustrating!
I bought a nice 2" Mag Drill as well while I was there. It was in perfect condition and new, but it was in the scratch-n-dent room because the exterior cardboard shipping box got damaged! So I saved $150.00 on it, for a box I would immediately throw away.
I've never used a planer before. But I have all of these church benches I acquired a year ago, stacked up in my shop. 132 16-foot red oak church benches, all mine, and all FREE! It took five guys two days to remove them from the church, and two 18-foot car haulers to carry them home. Both trailers were heavily overloaded and the pickup truck beds and rear seating areas were stuffed with the sides and legs, etc., but we drove slow!
In the past year, I stripped off all of the fabric, and the foam rubber. So I am down to the bench seats, which are a cutting board style long planks of sandwiched 1x2" strips of wood weighing about 110 pounds each, and the backs which are about 130 pounds each, but they are solid red oak. I also have all of the sides and center legs, and the wooden Bible pockets as well. I probably have a couple hundred of them. I haven't figured out what I will do with those yet.
Pinterest.com is an eye candy store. LOTS of ideas for repurposed church benches there!
So the only thing I am missing is a way to scan the wood for nails and screws. Does anyone make a nice "wand" or something I can pass over the planks to reliably detect metal? I do have one of those arm-swing beach treasure hunting metal detectors, but I was hoping for something more practical, like a wide bar with a coil that I could pass over the planks to check for metal. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
A one-week trip to GA. and VA. to help some friends, and then I will be back at home, to try this thing out.
Joe
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"It is better to be lucky, than smart." My step-dad always used to say. So it was, with the planer arriving for pick up in Springfield, MO. at the GRIZZLY location. It just so happened that I had planned a trip up to Clever, MO. to visit with friends who drove in from CA. to visit their cute granddaughter. Clever is only 15 minutes away from Springfield, so when I got the call that the planer was in, I was smiling ear-to-ear! What luck, to drive up there only ONCE for the visit, and to pick up the machine! Boy, this sucker is HEAVY.
I also bought the SB1100 Dust Collector they had, from South Bend Tools. It is a nice machine, but the assembly instructions were written by a moron, and their "quality control" department is sorely lacking. They sent me ISE bolts with METRIC wrenches. They sent three Allen keys, but only one of them actually fit the set screws or the Allen head bolts. I added about two dozen washers. I guess a bag of washers is too much to add to a machine that sells for $850.00 😖 I also bought the rolling base for the machine.
The illustrations inside the SB1100 manual were drawn by someone who NEVER saw the machine, and I had to disassemble parts of it three times, to do steps that SHOULD have occurred five steps earlier, before other things were bolted together. VERY frustrating!
I bought a nice 2" Mag Drill as well while I was there. It was in perfect condition and new, but it was in the scratch-n-dent room because the exterior cardboard shipping box got damaged! So I saved $150.00 on it, for a box I would immediately throw away.
I've never used a planer before. But I have all of these church benches I acquired a year ago, stacked up in my shop. 132 16-foot red oak church benches, all mine, and all FREE! It took five guys two days to remove them from the church, and two 18-foot car haulers to carry them home. Both trailers were heavily overloaded and the pickup truck beds and rear seating areas were stuffed with the sides and legs, etc., but we drove slow!
In the past year, I stripped off all of the fabric, and the foam rubber. So I am down to the bench seats, which are a cutting board style long planks of sandwiched 1x2" strips of wood weighing about 110 pounds each, and the backs which are about 130 pounds each, but they are solid red oak. I also have all of the sides and center legs, and the wooden Bible pockets as well. I probably have a couple hundred of them. I haven't figured out what I will do with those yet.
Pinterest.com is an eye candy store. LOTS of ideas for repurposed church benches there!
So the only thing I am missing is a way to scan the wood for nails and screws. Does anyone make a nice "wand" or something I can pass over the planks to reliably detect metal? I do have one of those arm-swing beach treasure hunting metal detectors, but I was hoping for something more practical, like a wide bar with a coil that I could pass over the planks to check for metal. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
A one-week trip to GA. and VA. to help some friends, and then I will be back at home, to try this thing out.
Joe
When he began beating them off, the project moved more quickly. I still have all of them (about 300 of them) and believe it or not, they are still in great condition. I will be able to use the thin wooden planks for ... something.
