Wixey Planer Readout Sale @ Woodcraft

[Doug Shepard]

The most recent Woodcraft flyer has the Wixey digital planer readout on sale for $44.99 (reg. $59.99). Normally I shy away from WC sales as I get double-dinged with state sales tax as well as shipping (or gas cost which is actually worse). But I put one in the cart to see what the shipping cost would be and it says this gets free shipping. Dont know how long the free shipping lasts, but I think I'm taking the plunge. Just got the Wixey angle readout for Christmas, so it looks like I'm starting a Wixey collection.

http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5330 (http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5330)

[Gary Keedwell]

[quote=Doug Shepard]The most recent Woodcraft flyer has the Wixey digital planer readout on sale for $44.99 (reg. $59.99). Normally I shy away from WC sales as I get double-dinged with state sales tax as well as shipping (or gas cost which is actually worse). But I put one in the cart to see what the shipping cost would be and it says this gets free shipping. Dont know how long the free shipping lasts, but I think I'm taking the plunge. Just got the Wixey angle readout for Christmas, so it looks like I'm starting a Wixey collection.

http:// (http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=5330)http://www.wixey.com/anglegauge/buy/index.html (http://www.wixey.com/anglegauge/buy/index.html)

$40 plus free shipping
Gary K.

[Jay Jolliffe]

Hello...Do you know if this will work for a Jet 16" planer. It says for portable planers & mine is stationary.

[Doug Shepard]

Gary
The one you linked to is the angle readout, not the planer readout.

Jay
Dont know why it wouldn't work for the Jet but I dont have any firsthand knowledge for sure.

[Dan Forman]

Anyone put one of these on a MiniMax FS35?

Dan

[Doug Shepard]

Anyone put one of these on a MiniMax FS35?

Dan

Dont know if it's the same model nbr, but I just noticed their gallery pages show some user modification mountings on both a Minimax as well as Jet 20" machines.
http://www.wixey.com/planer/gallery/index.html

[Dan Forman]

Doug, thanks, I'll check it out.

Dan

[Reed Wells]

If someone figures a way to make this work on a 22-44 Performax sander please post it. Love the machine but its a poor position to read the guage on it. Thanks, Reed

[Mike Spanbauer]

There is an example on their website for a 22-44 mounting and apparently the results were good.

I'll let you know in a few weeks as I'm buying 2 and putting them on my planer and 22-44ST :)

Mike

[Steve Hayes]

I'm concerned about their accuracy.

[Mike Spanbauer]

Looks like shipping isn't free from woodcraft + I pay tax, so I'll be holding off until I find a better deal.

[John Durscher]

Hartville tools has them on sale for $47.94.... http://www.hartvilletool.com/product/12148

Shipping isn't free, but perhaps you won't get hit with sales tax. I ordered one a couple of days ago.

John

[Kent Fitzgerald]

I'm concerned about their accuracy.
Why?

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[Russell Svenningsen]

"Replace the inaccurate stock height gauge on your portable planer and stop constantly using calipers to check stock thickness!"

Yeah, that extra 5 seconds that it takes is just killing me. That adds up to, what, 25 "wasted" seconds per board? Five bucks says you're using calipers anyway, unless there's a way to use the same Wixey system from machine to machine, machine to bench, etc.

[Homer Faucett]

Five bucks says you're using calipers anyway, unless there's a way to use the same Wixey system from machine to machine, machine to bench, etc.

How many machines do you use to thickness your stock?

Once thicknessed/planed, I don't see the need to check the thickness of my stock again unless I'm doing an M+T joint; and then only for the first setup and only at that joint.

[Al Willits]

Maybe if you look at the DRO as a conveinence, it makes more sense, not sure I could check the thickness of a board in 5 seconds, but I see your point..:)

What is nice about it I'm thinking is the fact that it is more accurate then most tool readouts that are analog, and quicker than getting your calipers out and checking that way.
I'm thinking the ability to come back later after plaining some lumber and then later doing it again easily is probably worth the bucks to me.
Whether you buy a lot of rough sawn lumber would make a differece also I think.

Does it do anything that can't be done another way?
Probably not, but it does do it easiler and quicker.
Plus ya don't have to go hunt for it, if your like me....:D

Al...who's having another slow day at work...

[Dave Fifield]

I put one on my planer. The advantage to me is not knowing exactly how thick the stock is (I use a manual digital vernier caliper to measure this usually, not the one on the planer), but being able to set the machine to plane an exact amount off a board to get it to the thickness I need in one simple cut.