Wixey WR550 planner guage.

[Tim Compton]

Is this a good addtion, or will I have buyers remorse after the new wears off ? I dont mind spending money on something that is useful, just dont want to spend money on a gimmick.

[Brian Nguyen]

It's not a gimmick, it's honestly one of the best $50 or whatever I spent for my shop. No lie.

[Cary Falk]

I think it is essential for the planer. I love mine on my grizzly 15" planer. I bought the one for the table saw and didn't like it, so I guess it will be personal thing. I think the difference is that I think the stock gauge on the planer sucked. I like the stock measurement system on the tablesaw fence.

[glenn bradley]

Had one on my DW734 and loved it. Added a DRO to my 15" floor planer and love it.

[Mike Kees]

Where is the best place to buy these DRO things . IS wixey the only brand that makes them ? Thanks,Mike.

[Tim Compton]

I thank Wixey is the only one. Igaging I may have one not sure. The Igaging one had to have adapters to make it work. Wixey mounts directly to the planner.

[Livingston Johnston]

I just put the remote digital readout on my 24" scm planer and im happy with the results so far

[Curt Harms]

I thank Wixey is the only one. Igaging I may have one not sure. The Igaging one had to have adapters to make it work. Wixey mounts directly to the planner.

AFAIK Wixey is the only company making a dedicated add-on planer gauge. The Euro Combo machines often have a depth gauge built into the elevation wheel or similar. I needed more than 6" of travel for my Jet combo so got a 12" Igaging. It took a little thinking on how to mount and calibrate it but it works quite well.
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[Art Mann]

I have one on my Jet JJP12-HH. I would hate to do without it.

[glenn bradley]

Where is the best place to buy these DRO things . IS wixey the only brand that makes them ? Thanks,Mike.

The Wixey has the cool zeroing feature and it works well for re-calibrating. I needed more range and so also used the iGaging for my larger planer.

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I have only had to re-calibrate it once other than swapping batteries (which last a stupid long time).

[Tim Compton]

I ordered it from Hartville tools last night. Yes

[Rich Tomassetti]

I installed the 12"guage on my Robland X31 about 8 years ago. works great and I wouldn't hesitate installing one!
Is this a good addtion, or will I have buyers remorse after the new wears off ? I dont mind spending money on something that is useful, just dont want to spend money on a gimmick.

[Mike Kees]

Tim what was the price,I ordered the wr550 on Amazon last night for 70. Mike

[Tim Compton]

It was $69.00 plus free shipping and no sales tax from Hartville tools, I would have got it from Amazon, but wanted to try Hartville, I have heard good things about so I gave them a try.

[Mike Kees]

Thanks,Tim was hoping that I did not overpay. Usually comparison shop a bit more,this time I just bought it.Mike.

[Dave Cav]

I guess I'm the only one unhappy with mine. I installed one on my PM 180. Had to fabricate a mount for it, and it operates backwards. Not very useful. What am I doing wrong?

[Chris Farmer]

Plenty of positive responses here already, but I use a WR510 on my DW735 and it's incredibly useful! I don't think I would use my planer without it.

[glenn bradley]

I guess I'm the only one unhappy with mine. I installed one on my PM 180. Had to fabricate a mount for it, and it operates backwards. Not very useful. What am I doing wrong?

A quick picture of the way you’ve got it mounted would help with this. The Wixey expects the table to be fixed.

[Andrew Seemann]

Dave,

The gauge as set up might be expecting the bed fixed and the head to go up, rather than the head fixed and the bed to go down. I know I had to to some mental gymnastics when I mounted mine to my 15" Grizzly 5 years ago to keep it from reading backwards. It had to do with whether the readout mounted to the bed vs head and which way the stick/bar part then moved relative to the readout when then bed raised/lowered.

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[Cary Falk]

My attachment is no where near that complicated. If I can find my picture I will attach it later. The top and bottom of the track is connected to a stationary part of the planer and the head/readout part is attached to the bed.

Mine is the remote readout and on a "z" version with the switch on a post. The gsuge is on the back of the post.384384

[Dave Cav]

I'll try to remember to post a picture later this week.